Latest comic on the ever-expanding meaning of the insult "PC"

[p__x@mastodon.social]

@bluebabbler @jensorensen I'm a bit young to have seen the full (d)evolution of the term "PC", but I just consider it another word for "polite".

Being considerate and understanding that careless statements may (adversely) impact ppl outside a present context is exactly what my parents taught me as being polite.

OTOH, the use of "woke" is plain racist. They turned the term into exactly what it's warned about: racism can come from unexpected angles that hits hard if one's not vigilant.

[zed@mstdn.party]

@jensorensen even from the beginning, using “politically correct” as a negative just meant “I’m upset I can’t openly be racist.”

[bufalo1973@mast.lat]

@bluebabbler @jensorensen and the funny thing is that today the "politically correct" thing in too many countries (with far right governments) is being a bigoted asshole.

[shredd_tone@equestria.social]

@jensorensen So basically, anyone who can't make an argument or a counter argument about the basic needs and rights of mankind has to resort to mockery of vague verbal name calling to make themselves feel good aka dismissing it all out of hand without any argument to stand on?

Weird times!

[patternchaser@mas.to]

@P__X @bluebabbler @jensorensen

I thought "woke" was yet another version of "PC" — politeness. How does it become racist?

[analogfusion@mastodon.art]

@P__X @bluebabbler @jensorensen A lot of what was branded as "PC" in the 90s amounted to using glorified terms for common things.

I knew someone who worked as a janitor, but he (in all seriousness) told me he was a "sanitation engineer." I'm reasonably certain he had no engineering degree.

So what was mild mockery of silly excesses has taken a dark and hateful turn over the past decade or so. Any remotely humanitarian belief or activity is now attacked as PC or woke.

[p__x@mastodon.social]

@analogfusion @bluebabbler @jensorensen along those lines, politeness overdone yields a comical effect, but it doesn't make politeness a bad thing itself.

Humanitarianism is labeled "woke" because "it supports out-groups who deserve the adversities they are experiencing because they are inferior stock." At least that's the belief system around it per my observation.

[p__x@mastodon.social]

@PatternChaser @bluebabbler @jensorensen wikipedia:

"Woke is an adjective derived from African-American English used since the 1930s or earlier to refer to awareness of racial prejudice and discrimination, often in the construction stay woke."

Do I need to explain further?

[analogfusion@mastodon.art]

@P__X @bluebabbler @jensorensen Everything I've read about the history and stated goals of the far right strongly suggests you're right.

They delight in hurting the out-groups in any way they can.

[phosphenes@mastodon.social]

@P__X @PatternChaser @bluebabbler @jensorensen

It's weird to see people like Hegseth expand woke to mean anything legal or moral.

Goodness itself is the sin, now.

[p__x@mastodon.social]

@analogfusion @bluebabbler @jensorensen yes and their fixation of isolationism is pretty quixotic in a hyperconnected world.

[p__x@mastodon.social]

@Phosphenes @PatternChaser @bluebabbler @jensorensen

ironically, woke is literally the opposite of stupid.

[pouakai@mastodon.social]

@jensorensen
It's a disaster whenever Political correctness is overly abused by some SJWs.

However, it's a disaster when everything right wing don't like got marked as PC too.

[linuxandyarn@hachyderm.io]

@jensorensen Having been left-adjacent before the 90s, back then we used it to describe someone who thought eating a pulled pork sandwich was the same as giving aid to Newt Gingrich. Then Poppy Bush used it in a 1991 speech and Bill Maher got his talk show, and it metastasized into a right wing cudgel.

[peachmcd@union.place]

@jensorensen

I was there & saw it first hand. The right didn't like women saying they didn't like guys they didn't even know calling them 'girl, honey, babe'. They didn't like Black men saying 'don't call me boy'. They didn't like gays saying 'don't call me fag'

So they consulted their marketing people & had George Bush the First call all the people who listened a nasty name