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- Extreme political correctness can often revolve around morally superficial applications of reasonable norms, taken to an extreme
- Political correctness concerns offense and sensibilities, not the objective interests of everyone involved.
- There's an increasing tendency to reject government terms like "illegal alien" in favor of "undocumented immigrant" with the implication that refusing to do so implies reactionary or hateful views.
- One example of political correctness backfiring is when "sensitive" material is removed from coursework to avoid upsetting students.
- One example of political correctness backfiring is when "sensitive" material is removed from coursework to avoid upsetting students.
- This is shown with affirmative action causing problems and not having the intended affect
- We want to avoid "being gored on either horn"
- Enforcing political correctness can lead to widespread "preference falsification", in which what people believe in private is detached from what is spoken in public