Latest comic on the ever-expanding meaning of the insult "PC"

[shredd_tone@equestria.social]

@jensorensen So basically, anyone who can't make an argument or a counter argument about the basic needs and rights of mankind has to resort to mockery of vague verbal name calling to make themselves feel good aka dismissing it all out of hand without any argument to stand on?

Weird times!

[patternchaser@mas.to]

@P__X @bluebabbler @jensorensen

I thought "woke" was yet another version of "PC" — politeness. How does it become racist?

[analogfusion@mastodon.art]

@P__X @bluebabbler @jensorensen A lot of what was branded as "PC" in the 90s amounted to using glorified terms for common things.

I knew someone who worked as a janitor, but he (in all seriousness) told me he was a "sanitation engineer." I'm reasonably certain he had no engineering degree.

So what was mild mockery of silly excesses has taken a dark and hateful turn over the past decade or so. Any remotely humanitarian belief or activity is now attacked as PC or woke.

[p__x@mastodon.social]

@analogfusion @bluebabbler @jensorensen along those lines, politeness overdone yields a comical effect, but it doesn't make politeness a bad thing itself.

Humanitarianism is labeled "woke" because "it supports out-groups who deserve the adversities they are experiencing because they are inferior stock." At least that's the belief system around it per my observation.

[p__x@mastodon.social]

@PatternChaser @bluebabbler @jensorensen wikipedia:

"Woke is an adjective derived from African-American English used since the 1930s or earlier to refer to awareness of racial prejudice and discrimination, often in the construction stay woke."

Do I need to explain further?

[analogfusion@mastodon.art]

@P__X @bluebabbler @jensorensen Everything I've read about the history and stated goals of the far right strongly suggests you're right.

They delight in hurting the out-groups in any way they can.

[phosphenes@mastodon.social]

@P__X @PatternChaser @bluebabbler @jensorensen

It's weird to see people like Hegseth expand woke to mean anything legal or moral.

Goodness itself is the sin, now.

[p__x@mastodon.social]

@analogfusion @bluebabbler @jensorensen yes and their fixation of isolationism is pretty quixotic in a hyperconnected world.

[p__x@mastodon.social]

@Phosphenes @PatternChaser @bluebabbler @jensorensen

ironically, woke is literally the opposite of stupid.

[pouakai@mastodon.social]

@jensorensen
It's a disaster whenever Political correctness is overly abused by some SJWs.

However, it's a disaster when everything right wing don't like got marked as PC too.

[linuxandyarn@hachyderm.io]

@jensorensen Having been left-adjacent before the 90s, back then we used it to describe someone who thought eating a pulled pork sandwich was the same as giving aid to Newt Gingrich. Then Poppy Bush used it in a 1991 speech and Bill Maher got his talk show, and it metastasized into a right wing cudgel.

[peachmcd@union.place]

@jensorensen

I was there & saw it first hand. The right didn't like women saying they didn't like guys they didn't even know calling them 'girl, honey, babe'. They didn't like Black men saying 'don't call me boy'. They didn't like gays saying 'don't call me fag'

So they consulted their marketing people & had George Bush the First call all the people who listened a nasty name

[matera@mastodon.sdf.org]

@jensorensen
I think PC has gone so far it'stime for it to do a 180. Bigotry and hate are now politically "correct"

[wilbr@glitch.social]

@bluebabbler @jensorensen steelman: the idea is that people aren't being sincere, they're just saying whatever will get them acceptance in a society focused more on fake politeness than actually doing anything good for anyone. See also, "nice" vs kind vs actually advocating justice (a critique of the mainstream from the left instead of the right.)

strawman: politics is full of liars and frauds therefore it's better to be politically incorrect and offensive, since that's "real"

[wilbr@glitch.social]

@bluebabbler @jensorensen what anti-PC anti-woke conservatives don't get is that a bunch of people saying things like "respect their pronouns" or "war is bad" aren't just saying things for status, they deeply believe it and have the receipts and theory to back up that belief (which is why their favorite thing is to find a blue-haired protestor who doesn't know why they're protesting; it gives them permission to keep dismissing it all as an act)

[obscurestar@mastodon.social]

@bluebabbler @jensorensen Right wingers are stupid apes that lack the mental faculties to learn and process new words. What they really want is for all the mean old woke people to respect their deficiencies and treat them as fully functional adults regardless of how completely pathetic and childish they are.

To Republicans, their hatespeech and ignorance are far more important than even pretending to treat others with respect.

They're burned out bulbs that should be replaced.

[hisvirusness@mastodon.social]

@jensorensen Funny thing is, dog whistles by their very nature is "politically correct speech"; they won't say what they really mean because they know it's unpalatable, so they have to dress it up in a way that's recognizable to those who are in the know, but innocuous to someone coming in fresh.