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Topic	A future where not being politically correct is criminal a utopia or dystopia?
Zeus 03/31/17 5:33:59 PM #6:	Gamechamp3k posted... ParanoidObsessive posted... Someone already wrote that book. It was called 1984. I think the government there both encouraged and discouraged political correctness depending on the specific context. The entire point was taking advantage of doublethink to keep society loyal to them, after all. It encouraged only one frame of thought and criminalized the other, so it was exactly like PC culture. adjl posted... Depends. Does "politically correct" mean "being nice to people," or "adhering to whatever arbitrary social conventions are the new flavour of the month"? The former would be nice, but in practice, trying to enforce the former will pretty inevitably end up as the latter, and that's just a mess. PC has never been about being nice. --- (\/)(\/)\|-\| In Zeus We Trust: All Others Pay Cash <cite>Zeus posted [p:876261735] in A future w... [t:75181479]...</cite> <quote><cite>Gamechamp3k posted...</cite> <quote><cite>ParanoidObsessive posted...</cite> <quote>Someone already wrote that book. It was called 1984. </quote> I think the government there both encouraged and discouraged political correctness depending on the specific context. The entire point was taking advantage of doublethink to keep society loyal to them, after all.</quote> It encouraged only one frame of thought and criminalized the other, so it was exactly like PC culture. <cite>adjl posted...</cite> <quote>Depends. Does "politically correct" mean "being nice to people," or "adhering to whatever arbitrary social conventions are the new flavour of the month"? The former would be nice, but in practice, trying to enforce the former will pretty inevitably end up as the latter, and that's just a mess.</quote> PC has never been about being nice. --- (\/)(\/)\|-\| In Zeus We Trust: All Others Pay Cash</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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