: Re: Is political correctness a challenge to clarity of communication and characterisation The Ugly Sisters were ugly, everybody knows that, and in visual media they portrayed that way. I'm not going

@Gonzalez219

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Political correctness is not a challenge to clarity, it IS clarity, without your cruel and hateful or disdainful spin on it.

What you call political correctness is what I call not using language I know, on average, is perceived by others as hurtful. I don't use racial epithets because I know people of the race in question typically find those epithets insulting; with the possible exception of use by friends of their own race. I don't use epithets about homosexuality because I know homosexuals feel insulted by them.

Even if I wanted to insult a member of such a group, I wouldn't use those epithets because they'd have nothing to do with why I occasionally want to insult someone, which is exclusively about being a jerk, which has nothing to do with race or sexual orientation.

There is nothing wrong with avoiding language we know is hurtful to others, the only people that seem bothered by political correctness seem to be self-centered lazy-ass jerks that just don't care about the feelings of other people, and don't mind spewing hatred, probably because they don't have the intellect to remember terms that are not offensive.

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