Has political correctness gone too far (especially during the winter season)?

[ElectionsGuy]

Yes, people need to chill out and not be offended by the measliest things. Both the left and right are responsible for this. The right for trying to censore "immorality" as they call it. The left trying censor religious speech or stupid words like "penmanship". Political correctness needs to be forgotten and abolished so we can freely express ourselves like normal human beings. 

[ElectionsGuy]

Yes, people need to chill out and not be offended by the measliest things. Both the left and right are responsible for this. The right for trying to censore "immorality" as they call it. The left trying censor religious speech or stupid words like "penmanship". Political correctness needs to be forgotten and abolished so we can freely express ourselves like normal human beings. 

I agree. I think it's kind of silly when someone says we shouldn't use words like 'man-made' and 'congressman'.

On another note, I think it is kind of silly to use the word 'congressman' because there are representatives in the House that are women and some states (HI, NH, SD, WY) don't have a single congressman. Hehehe. Someone actually asked me "Who is the congressman from South Dakota?".

I agree. We should probably call them Congresspeople all together and congressmen/women appropriate to specific people.

The left trying censor religious speech or stupid words like "penmanship".

Absolute most ridiculous strawman in the history of the Atlas Forum. If you were joking, very nice, because I literally LOLed for about 20 seconds at the sheer absurdity of it.

http://www.ijreview.com/2013/05/49446-new-washington-state-law-bans-words-penmanship-freshman-fisherman-as-sexist/

I'm not joking.

[ElectionsGuy]

The left trying censor religious speech or stupid words like "penmanship".

Absolute most ridiculous strawman in the history of the Atlas Forum. If you were joking, very nice, because I literally LOLed for about 20 seconds at the sheer absurdity of it.

http://www.ijreview.com/2013/05/49446-new-washington-state-law-bans-words-penmanship-freshman-fisherman-as-sexist/

I'm not joking.

Meh, whatever. Some fool in Washington goes overboard with his word list on an otherwise OK bill, and you spin it to "those loony liberals are banning the word "penmanship" for being sexist!!!!"

I was spinning it? lol This thread is about political correctness, right?

[ElectionsGuy]

The left trying censor religious speech or stupid words like "penmanship".

Absolute most ridiculous strawman in the history of the Atlas Forum. If you were joking, very nice, because I literally LOLed for about 20 seconds at the sheer absurdity of it.

http://www.ijreview.com/2013/05/49446-new-washington-state-law-bans-words-penmanship-freshman-fisherman-as-sexist/

I'm not joking.

Meh, whatever. Some fool in Washington goes overboard with his word list on an otherwise OK bill, and you spin it to "those loony liberals are banning the word "penmanship" for being sexist!!!!"

I was spinning it? lol This thread is about political correctness, right?

<Not sure if srs>  Yes, you listed "The right for trying to censor 'immorality' as they call it," and
 "The left trying censor religious speech or stupid words like 'penmanship'," as your examples of how political correctness has gone amok.

By listing them as your two examples, you implied that they were a big deal and around equal in stature.  I'll grant that the right does often try to enforce its moral code on the country, and that that is a nationwide thing, but it's very obviously absurd to suggest that censoring the word "penmanship" is some kind of general characteristic of liberals.  It happened once in one state, buried inside a non-ridiculous bill.  Virtually no liberal in the entire country supports it. It's textbook, indisputable spin on your part to imply otherwise.

I'm not at all implying that liberals are "loony" or anything. But there's been multiple examples of things like this, with word bans, and censoring certain objects as well, because they might be deemed racist or sexist. This is just one of them. You or many other liberals may not support it, but its what they've done. You've made way too big a deal of one little thing I said. Lets just be done with this now argument that we've started.

I remind myself yet again why I avoid this board.