John Cleese: Political Correctness Can Lead to an Orwellian Nightmare (2016)

Re:John Cleese: Political Correctness Can Lead to an Orwelli... by pjc50 on Friday July 10, 2020 @11:31AM (#23792528)

Street abuse is never OK regardless of who it's from, you don't have to pretend there's a racial conspiracy to stop you discussing it.

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Re:John Cleese: Political Correctness Can Lead to an Orwelli... by the-dude on Friday July 10, 2020 @11:35AM (#23792570)

Thanks for the kind words.

I am not pretending there is a conspiracy at all. The PC is out in the open.

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Re:John Cleese: Political Correctness Can Lead to an Orwelli... by shadowgovt on Friday July 10, 2020 @11:55AM (#23792820)

Can you give some concrete examples of someone being censured for criticizing people being called cancer-whore? It's not out of the realm of possibility, but that seems an extraordinary claim.

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Re:John Cleese: Political Correctness Can Lead to an Orwelli... by the-dude on Friday July 10, 2020 @12:13PM (#23793005)

Do you actually have an opinion about people being called cancer whore out of the blue or are you just here trying to supress discussion about it?

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Re:John Cleese: Political Correctness Can Lead to an Orwelli... by ceejayoz on Friday July 10, 2020 @12:44PM (#23793385)

Being called "cancer whore" is bad.

Claiming there's a big conspiracy of "political correctness which supresses discussion about this" is entirely unsupported thus far.

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