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Political correctness also does not reduce conflict at all. It simply defers it to different means than smashing one another with offensive words. | Political correctness also does not reduce conflict at all. It simply defers it to different means than smashing one another with offensive words. | ||
A danger of policing speech is also that it ultimately gets abused as means of political control, which is exactly what happened in recent years. | A danger of policing speech is also that it ultimately gets abused as means of political control, which is exactly what happened in recent years. | ||
Incels are often accused to be politically incorrect and bigoted, for saying mean things about women, for example, as if that would say something about their willingness to be honorable citizens. It doesn't. | Incels are often accused to be politically incorrect and bigoted, for saying mean things about women, for example, as if that would say something about their willingness to be honorable citizens. It doesn't. A famous critic of political correctness is ''Steven Pinker''. | ||
== References == | == References == | ||
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