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Practical Demon posted:I'm not sure if there's anyone who actually thinks people should be jailed for saying un-PC things. There's a lot who think those ultra PC people exist, though, and that's where the liberals who are very anti-PC usually are. They're mostly white guys who like Bernie Sanders and hate the right and religion, but get real upset if anyone tells them that women still face oppression or that their abortion jokes are in bad taste. Ultra PC people do exist, though. They're not in as high a number as White Supremacists would have you believe, but I know of at least two incidents where people had their lives ruined because they said/did something unquestionably stupid and got pilloried beyond what could be considered a proportional response. There was the woman who made that dumbass Africa tweet just before she boarded a plane; some guy at Gawker dedicated his life to ruining hers and succeeded, right up to the moment where HE made a lovely tweet of his own and got his poo poo pushed in. Then there was that fan-artist who ended up trying to kill herself because cyberbullies wouldn't leave her alone; she was constantly drawing a fat character from Steven Universe as thin, which apparently makes you an irredeemable piece of poo poo. There was key staff on the show trying to step in and say "Hey, this is really terrible," and even THEY got loving roasted for it. To be clear, none of this is to say that PC is an inherently bad thing. We should all strive to be more considerate of others and stand up for people who are marginalized. But like anything, it's possible to take it too far or get into it for the wrong reasons altogether. Anybody who genuinely wants to contribute to a safer, more inclusive world should always have that possibility in the back of their minds.
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Well, that was fantastic. Depressing as hell, but fantastic.
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If nothing else about that segment was noteworthy, that Donald Drumph reveal and the way it bookended Trump bagging on Jon Stewart for changing his name was fuckin' art.
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