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Originally posted by Spanky
"Bigotry is contextual and related to the balance of power, not objective"
So everytime I make a comment I need to analyse the power situation between the person that is the object of my comment and other members of the society they occupy and adjust my language accordingly? It is this type of justification to oversensitivity that has caused such a huge backlash against political correctness. The end result is that being called Politcaly Correct, or part of the PC police, is almost as insulting as being called a racist and definitely more insulting than being called sexist. The backlash to this oversensitivity has given comfort and ammunition to the racists and I find that 'irksome".
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Right. The oversensitive types need to control themselves, since the backlash types who respond irrationally to the oversensitive types are unable to do so.
Seems some lightening up needs to be done on both sides.
