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'''Political correctness''' is the well-intentioned attempt at regulating political speech in order to avoid hurting people's feelings. It is based on two assumptions: If one limits speech to nice words, then everyone will be nice. And secondly, that people are immediately triggered and ''traumatized'' when they are hurt by words. Both assumptions are false. Mild adversity not only not harmful, but it even improves psychological functioning (''steeling effect'').<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272735818300539?via%3Dihub</ref><ref>https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17405629.2016.1150174?journalCode=pedp20</ref>
'''Political correctness''' is the well-intentioned attempt at regulating political speech in order to avoid hurting people's feelings. It is based on two assumptions: If one limits speech to nice words, then everyone will be nice. And secondly, that people are immediately triggered and ''traumatized'' when they are hurt by words. Both assumptions are false. Political correctness 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.
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''.
 
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