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Originally Posted by Nicholas
If you say "mexican immigrants are rapists and killers" and I call you a fascist based on that then you accuse me of being a PC "retard".
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Call me a pedant, but that would make you an ethnicist, which does not necessarily make you a fascist. Of course, the opinion is still blatantly wrong, but misuse of terms like this annoys me.
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Originally Posted by Swagga Lee
What's a "threat" can be subjective, and some people in minority groups perceive certain disparaging or insensitive statements to be just as threatening when it comes from high-profile and influential people. For example, it can be statistically proven that there has been a spike in hate crimes against people of certain ethnic backgrounds since Donald Trump has made disparaging comments against Muslims. So is it unreasonable for them to be "PC" about Donald Trump's choice of words?
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I get what you're saying, I think, but the problem is that banning disparaging comments has to be done consistently towards all groups or it doesn't make sense. And since literally everyone in the world belongs to some or another group, the only logical conclusion is to make it illegal to insult any group for any reason.