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jmulltoday at 3:35 PM2 repliesview on HN

What does any of this have to do with political correctness?

Not being a dick is quite a different thing than political correctness.

Makes me wonder how much to the mass strife and confusion of the internet is simply down to people not knowing what the words they use mean?


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JoshTripletttoday at 3:52 PM

> Makes me wonder how much to the mass strife and confusion of the internet is simply down to people not knowing what the words they use mean?

Or being intentionally misled about them. People who enjoy being awful in various ways have a vested interest in reframing the opposition as "political correctness" in order to make it easier to dismiss or ridicule. The vast majority of usage of the term "political correctness" is in dismissing or ridiculing it.

lenkitetoday at 5:53 PM

It has everything to do with political correctness. Honest, blunt language is now de-valued in favor of passive, sanitized, AI-slop language that no longer conveys important information. The revised post forgot to mention the critical point of the bloated, buggy Javascript framework because it would offend someone here.

Prefer a blunt, honest dick over a passive, polite liar anyday.