Thread:Sitb/@comment-43596541-20200202232456/@comment-43596541-20200203223737

@Sitb  Good point about kids ... I  will also take that under advisement ... It is a foreign reality since I have no kid and  numerous nieces & nephews are 30+  ... But my test is "Would I be ahsamed if it was printed on the first page of a Newspaper  ? " ... And to that I'd say:  I can't  think of anything I've wrote that would shame me, I would just HOPE to be cited "in context" (while threads vs one word or phrase)  but even then I wouldn't really care. it is why I feel the tendancy is to be "oversensitive" and tends to cater to the voiciferous intolerants  and lowers ( or heightens depending on perspective) the bar of "admissible speech"  a very dangerous slope ...

The "PC" culture  ended up bringing a Québécois comedian in front of the Supreme Court for a joke said 10 years ago during a  show ... I am not drawing a false equivalency but just saying  that accepting too much "slef-policing" is a dangerous slope and it deserves some warning flags ... After all, the  "speaker" needs to be showed the same respect those "voiceferous few"  in hearshot say  they demand when in fact they want you to adapt your language to their values which the dangerous destination of "political correctness" a lowering of ideas and concepts in order to "protect the innocent and the ignorant" ... It gives undue influence to intergrists of all stripes and all spectrum ...