It's over

[fuzzyjay]

I'm so ready for the whole "politically correct/incorrect" phrase to be over.

It has been so stretched and diluted and de-fanged that we don't need it any more.

I just read an LJ comment about a comedian described as "politically incorrect" as if it were a virtue.

What does it mean? They are naughty? They make fun of people we're not supposed to make fun of?

I don't know, it just irritates me now.

Comments

[bearfuz.livejournal.com]

Add to that the fact that some of the empowered -- or perhaps the wannabe-empowered -- use it as a means of oppression and holier-than-thou-ism, as in "PC Nazis." I'd like to think that most of us are post that.

[rootbeer1.livejournal.com]

"Politically incorrect" is also used by a lot of right-wingers (especially bloggers) as a proud badge of their sexism, racism and homophobia. To my mind, that's worse than someone toeing the (admittedly annoying) holier-than-thou line.