os2firefox wrote:
PMB wrote:
So my question is simple - what are the opinions of what is TOO PC and what is just common civility and examples of being well-mannered?
Here is an example of an incident that was the result of being too PC: the Rotterdam child sex exploration scandal.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotherh ... on_scandalIn this scandal, partially attributed to institutionalized political correctness, up to 1,400 children were sexually abused.
From the wikipedia article listed:
Quote:
The failure to address the abuse was attributed to a combination of factors revolving around race, class and gender—contemptuous and sexist attitudes toward the mostly working-class victims; fear that the perpetrators' ethnicity would trigger allegations of racism and damage community relations; the Labour council's reluctance to challenge a Labour-voting ethnic minority; lack of a child-centred focus; a desire to protect the town's reputation; and lack of training and resources.
I am about 1/4 way through that meaty article.
Good information... may I throw in a "But! Behold the Underlying Truth!" That is not PC to me... It seems to be a fearful reaction, afraid of people's reaction to truth and exposure.
That has nothing to do with PC to me, so most probably I understand these words and their meanings in a very different way than they are used by much of society.
Please be patient with me brethren and sistren as I learn.
I will ask the question more as it pertains to us here at WaGuns... So Alpine, maybe I am turning it more inward now.
I am asking as it pertains to us here in this forum.
I made a big error a month or two ago and hit my Vesuvial Spot... in regards to something that rubbed me the wrong way for reasons that were explained in my apologetic PMs the following day. I exploded out some not-PC things myself in my eruption... and was called on those by someone here who has recently been called a Redneck God.
I learned something from that- I hadn't even realized that my phrase was offensive in a PC way until this kind gentleman pointed it out to me.
When we moderate this forum, we are trying to do so in a way that keeps it healthy. We may make errors... (hah... we most certainly DO make errors. Every single day.) But we TRY to do the right thing by the 2A community. Sometimes the actions that we take are unpopular, sometimes they are popular. We honestly try to not let the popularity of an action be the determinant of whether it gets done. We try to do what is RIGHT AND CORRECT for the whole community and WaGuns.
You might be surprised by how many times those efforts to do what is right and correct have elicited responses of the most unholy nature... Some of the PMs that I have had the distinct displeasure of reading would curl the hair of a thinner skinned man.
So... When do our efforts to moderate some of the rougher posts here cross the line into PC SJW territory?
If your opinion is that we should just leave every single post stand no matter how far out there it is- we will have to agree to disagree.
I am looking for spots we can agree on.