04-25-2014, 08:14 PM
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David Hasselhoff
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Back in Portland, OR
Posts: 3,680
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Originally Posted by Janszoon
Eh. Honestly it kind of bugs me the way the term "politically correct" is misused. What it meant, at least originally, was politicians cynically saying things in a way to appeal to the broadest possible base. Then conservatives got a hold of it and started using it as a stick to beat progressives with for believing in treating people equally. Now everyone, progressives included, seems to have bought into the conservative way of using it. I guess it's kind of an interesting lesson in how language evolves, but it's also sort of annoying.
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^ This
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