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Subject:Re: Political Correctness From:Stephen Victor <svictor -at- LGC -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 8 Jun 1995 08:45:43 CDT
> Douglas Thayer (douglas_thayer -at- smtplink -dot- syscom -dot- com -dot- tw) wrote:
> > "The Concise OED defines PC as 'the avoidance of forms of expression
> > that exclude, marginalize, or insult racial or cultural minorities.'"
> >
> > By my reading, this means that someone who is actively "POLITICALLY
> INCORRECT"
> > makes a habit of excluding, marginalizing, or insulting others. I fail to
> see
> > how anybody could take pride in such behavior. But then, I never could
> > understand conservative Christians.
> Douglas has shown that he is guilty of POLITICALLY INCORRECTNESS because he
> has perfectly excluded, marginalized and insulted all conservative
> Christians, simply because he doesn't understand them.
Wait a minute. I fail to see how saying you don't understand a group of people
(in this case, conservative Christians) means you have "perfectly excluded,
marginalized and insulted" them. I won't do Douglas Thayer's arguing for him,
but I think that Merrill Dodge has perhaps misrepresented his position. It
seems to me that a lot of the "PC" debate (both in this list and in society at
large) consists of a great deal of misunderstanding and misrepresentation on
both sides. Instead of wasting time and energy pointing fingers and labelling
each other (as "PC" or "un-PC" or "conservative" or "liberal" or whatever other
labels we can find), couldn't this energy be better spent trying to understand
and accept each other? In other words, can't we just try to get along?
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