No and I did not say that, see my comments further down the thread.

I too have been diagnosed with Bi-polar disorder since the age of 14, though in those days they called it manic depression, so I empathise.
I think you may have misunderstood me, I was rather angry when I originally posted this.
I completely agree Political correctness WAS a successful effort to change attitudes by moderating language and have people think about what they say before and as they said it.
That however is a far cry from what is happening now, where suppression and censorship of speech as being "unacceptable" and "provocative" has replaced reasoned discussion and explanation as to why some intents behind words and phrases can be seen as perpetuating and stereotyping negative myths about groups of people.

As with everything else a loud minority of people with extremist views or simply a desire for personal aggrandizement have become the face of movement remolded in their own image.
When I ask a woman why she is not a feminist and she says because she is not one of those horrible man haters, some thing has gone wrong with the general perception of feminism.
When I ask anyone what they think of Political correctness and they say it is dangerous and bloody stupid, something has gone wrong with the general perception of political correctness, in peoples minds it is not the abolition of racism and sexism they think of as those being wrong seems to go without saying for the vast majority of people, it is the general perception that the entire western way of life is under threat by a dictatorial, censorial regime of humorless, easily offend idiots who want a world of carbon copy "perfect" people appointed to jobs not by ability or desire but in order to fulfill equality quotas.

I'm a white male who has come from a long line of poverty dating back to the 19th century when my ancestors were forcibly brought over as indentured servants from Ireland. I have no idea what privilege or entitlement feels like, I have been shit on, pissed on, stepped on, fucked with, and pointed at my entire life. I have been beaten up before simply for being white at the wrong school. I have been harassed by the police before simply because I looked like I "didn't belong in the neighborhood". I had to go deep into debt and work my way though college because my parents were poor and there were no scholarships for white males. Yet I constantly hear about how bad and evil white men are because they have historically held power and some of them are greedy, cruel, prejudiced, misogynistic assholes. Well, those individuals deserve our animosity, but for the other 99.99% of white men who are decent human beings, it gets old constantly having the actions of a reprehensible few being attributed to our entire group. In fact when this is done to minorities, we call it racism and hate the people who do it to them, and applaud the minorities for standing up to being targeted simply for the color of their skin. So what gives going the other way? Why is it okay to hate white men because of assholes like Kavanaugh, Trump, ore Weinstein, but not okay to hate all blacks because of OJ Simpson, Bill Cosby, or Don King? What am I missing here?

@Piratefish I'm not sure how this relates to my post, but I'll engage. Firstly, I wouldn't put the fraction of white males who are decent as high as 99.99% but I would accept it's the great majority. Unlike you, I am not aware of ever having met anyone who hated me just for being white, and I have travelled quite a bit (although I have met other white men who hated me for being English). I very much doubt if anyone on this forum nurses any such prejudice.

@Gareth There are a few places right here in my city I can direct you to where you will get a firsthand experience in being hated simply for being white.

Again, my point is that there is very much a double standard, which is relevant to the topic. Not everyone who points this out is a "regressive, oppressive, overprivileged conservative who sees their sense of entitlement being eroded", either. Many of us are decent human beings who simply see a double standard. That is all.

@Gareth I live and have lived in a relatively open and safe environment. Mixed racial and not very separated by social status (but getting worse) and even I know where to go if I want to be hated because I'm white. It isn't that far from here and I could find 4 or 5 places within 10 miles.

@Piratefish @CK-One I'll grant that there are areas in the US that a white face would not be welcome in, but that's hardly for reasons of political correctness (the topic of the thread).

@Gareth

You're correct. I apologize for getting off topic. I need to learn to better save my comments for when I am not having a less than stellar day.

No one is actually saying that all white men are... well, anything except white and men. But there most definitely IS privilege in being white and male in America. This does NOT mean that you have not experienced challenges or hardships or even once or twice encountered a sitauation that was worse for you because of one of this characteristics.

America has long treated whiteness and maleness as the “standard,” the default, for all things. It’s not something you notice when you are surrounded by it. Especially if you are invested in believing that white privilege doesn’t exist.
It is not an attack on you. It merely acknowledges that the world makes different assumptions, and responds differently to, people when they are “other” and that for most of the country, that means “other than” white and male.

@PalacinkyPDX look further down the thread you will see I discuss this at some length

@PalacinkyPDX okay, all though I agree with you about The Sun, the Daily Mail and Piers Morgan you're obviously projecting, and so it is impossible to have a rational conversation with, and I have no more time to waste on you. ✌

I was brought up with an Muslim best friend, west Indian neighbors, I'm part Jewish and am married to a disabled druid.
You, know nothing about me, I on the other hand now know you are a presumptuous arrogant loud mouth.

@LenHazell53 Len ... I was not accusing you of being a xenophobe, as I know nothing of you in that regard. I was suggesting that you're overstating your case about PC speech being a "reign of terror". Nothing more nor less. I actually presume nothing at all here, other than making an observation concerning what you said.

Since a "loud mouth" is a person who talks too much in a loud or offensive way ... I am sorry you took what I said personally, and were offended. But I think the only thing that actually happened is that I simply failed to agree with your statement, and said so. Did you mean "reign of terror" to be hyperbole? If so, I apologize, as I do have a mild tendency to take things over-literally sometimes. If you were simply exaggerating to make a point, then I should not have suggested you don't know what a reign of terror is or is not.

I have no personal quarrel with you or your right to your views. I hope you can return the favor.

@mordant
Of course it was a hyperbolic metaphor, if that was not obvious given that I had only a few words before paraphrase the slogan of the French revolution, that too is indicative of the knee jerk reaction responses of the overly sensitive state of modern society.
I simply drew a comparison with how good intent can be hijacked and corrupted in to something as bad or worse than that which one initially sought to over throw.

Political correctness, a call for decency tolerance and good fellowship has been taken and turned in to something literally fearful that destroys freedom, destroys lives and inhibits art and creative thought in favour of homogenized conformity, limited speech, thought and action.

@LenHazell53 There, we found common ground. That wasn't so bad!

I made the point on some other thread today that political correctness is an attempt to control speech through taboos rather than to have reasonable discourse based on real-world harms and benefits, concerning what society should [dis]approve of. I think two things happen:

1. People assume that advocating for social justice is political correctness, when it is not necessarily, and we CAN tell them apart pretty objectively;

2. People assume that political correctness demands have no element of genuine social justice advocacy to them.

I think in other words there's no discrete bogeyman here, I think SJWs stray into PC at times and people who tend to be overly PC have some legitimate SJ concerns. People should understand the difference so they can avoid muddying the waters and recognize what about political correctness is bad and why it should be avoided -- without feeling that in avoiding those harms they have to let go of their investment in their causes.

That leaves us, I think, with folks mindlessly stereotyping liberals as fragile snowflakes pushing political correctness, in one corner ... and the potential for a genuine and useful critique of political correctness among people who really are working or a better world.

As such I don't think liberal activists were too successful and are trying to compensate for working themselves out of a job, so now they are making stuff up. From the point of view of actual activists of any stripe, their desire is to accomplish the changes they want to see in society, and they don't see those goals as accomplished -- so they are doubling down on the wrong emphasis, namely, political correctness. They think they can shame their opponents into silence when what they are actually doing is radicalizing them. Hence we have Trump, Brexit, and now this new fresh horror named Bolsonaro over in Brazil. Talk about over-playing your hand ...

Well said

What outdated opinions am I supposed to be holding on to?
What hate am I preaching?
What are you talking about?
Did you actually read my post?

@LenHazell53 did you read it?

Simply a metaphorical comparison, sorry if using the names of actual historical events are beyond you.

@LenHazell53 Hey, if you want to conflate bald assertion and shaky logic with actual historical events, I can't stop you. LOL

Thank you, nice to know some people can still be rational.

I agree if you do not call it just 'truth' then you most likely have a hidden agenda.

Spot on