The phrases "political correctness" and "treating people with respect" describe entirely different things. They are not interchangeable without altering the meaning of the sentence, as they refer to two completely different concepts. Whether or not you agree with the intended meaning is irrelevant. The meaning is still there.
Just to be clear, I'm all for treating people with respect, as any decent human being should be. And political correctness is perfectly fine and necessary in most cases, but in most contexts it refers to conforming to certain narratives to avoid scrutiny and being ostracized, which typically only exists to serve some underlying agenda. It's been taken to the extremes lately and conflating "political correctness" with "treating people with respect" is a mistake, because more often than not, political correctness does more harm than good. Imagine there's a serious security flaw in some software but no one will speak up about it because it might result in ostracizing whoever does speak up about it because it offends people. The more freely people are allowed to express themselves, the better off we will all be, regardless of the message. But yes, when speaking freely, one should also be respectful. You can be politically incorrect and treat people with respect at the same time. That is why those phrases are not interchangeable.
What do you call people who use social justice as an excuse to harass and belittle people who have different opinions than them?
You shouldn't be upset at people using terms like social justice as a pejorative, you should be upset that people are attempting to push authoritarian ideology under the moniker of social justice :)
What Person A sees as a good sort of social justice may not like up with Person B's interpretation. It is possible for movements to sully the name of a stated positive goal.
Beware of reading books by their covers. That's the sort of thinking that got the US stuck with the Patriot Act or other sorts of legislation. Especially after a terrorist attack, people don't want to be opponents of "patriotism" (which gets defined by one side to mean a very specific thing).
I was thinking of doing something similar as a chrome plugin to counter propaganda on mass media sites but I never got around to it. You've inspired me to bump that up the weekend project to-do list again
I resent the implication that "conservatives" are necessarily people who would find the "beta male" trope congenial. I have plenty of conservative friends. None of them buy into this proto-PUA nonsense.
I don't think this concept of "beta male" even exists in reality. Seems to be just a way for a certain group of men to excuse themselves from making active positive changes in their own lives.
It's critical that comments here be civil and substantive, even when someone else's comments aren't, indeed even when they seem like a moron. Otherwise discussions get sucked into the tedious downward spiral that this site exists to try to avoid.
Normally we'd ban a new account that posts comments like that, since we get a lot of them, mostly by serial trolls. But you've already posted a couple of interesting comments, so I'd like to give you the benefit of the doubt.
Sorry for wasting your time dang. I am actually not new here, so I don't have the excuse of not knowing the guidelines, but I am normally much better behaved. It won't happen again!
