Can you give an example of political correctness or trigger warnings that in your opinion go too far?

Latin Americans getting “offended” with use of the word America when referring to the US.

There was also some video about air conditioning being sexist for some reason and that it should be banned.

“Manspreading”.

Do you have a link or a source for those?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNH0bmYT7os

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQglZPVmoo8

The first one is a bunch of random comments around. No links available.

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@Sneki95 Oh, the temperature that is set by male colleagues is sexist. I thought you meant the air conditioner itself.

@Rarebear Yeah, uh…..no, it still makes no sense.

I once met a young woman who used the surname of Tolperchild.

Her name was Tolman. She wanted to change it to Tolperson, to avoid the sexism of “man.” But, “person” contains the word “son,” which is also unacceptably sexist. Thus, Tolperchild.

This was during the late-1970s. At least in my opinion, it was feminism and political correctness gone much too far.

Oh wait, there is!
The entire movie rating system, warning people of “violence”, “swearing”, and “nudity” and “sex”.
That system is political correctness gone insane!

Also there is no reason, except political correctness, that hardcore pornography should not be shown on general television.
Even Netflix does not have any porn. Damned spineless special snowflakes,

@ragingloli Yeah, I hear you on the ratings thing. My daughter is 16 and as far as I’m concerned she can watch whatever she wants and self-censor.

I seem to notice this trend. In movies, especially animated movies for kids, there has to be a black somewhere, if not the protagonist, and that black has to always be the good guy, or at least do something good if they are a minor character.

They seem to try too hard to avoid offend people.

There was a friend who kept posting that telling your kids to hug and kiss grandma or grandpa or each other was promoting rape culture.

The article about no whooping or clapping is ridiculous. Definitely too far. What about blind people who can’t see when deaf people raise their hands to applaud?

I few months ago I posted a Q about the continuing education “college” where I live shutting down, because a deaf person brought suit saying the school didn’t always have sign language interpreters available for every class. The word college is a little overkill, because it’s more like classes of interest, and not extremely formal, but the teachers are former professors, or had a career in the subject matter. I do want the dead people to have interpreters, but the suit went too far. Where I live ADA is taken very seriously. Not only because it’s the law, but because I live in a retirement community and disabilities affect a lot of the population here. A lot if people are willing to volunteer to help.

I saw an episode in 60 minutes showing how lawyers find people to bring ADA suits against business. The law in FL, maybe federal, is every motel and hotel with a pool must have a way for handicap people to get into the swimming pool, usually one of the electric chairs. Lawyers use GPS, overhead satellite shots, to see which establishments don’t have them, and then file suits practically daily. Same with handicap parking spaces being a foot to narrow, even when next to the space is nothing or a walkway, and the person can easily get out of their vehicle.

Regarding room temperate that was mentioned above, the temperature settings at work do tend to be sexist, but often the dress code is unfair also. The dress code has changed since I worked in retail, but back then stores often were freezing. I was uncomfortable and cold constantly, daily, and so were many of the women. The men were required to wear jackets, men tend to be warmer anyway, and so to keep them from sweating on customers the air conditioner was set at a very low temperature.

I think not being able to describe people by their skin color is too far. I’m not talking about mentioning someone is black or Asian in average every day conversation when it has no relevance, that is unwarranted, but when you are describing someone so they can be found in a crowd, or so someone can figure out who you are talking about, I think it makes sense. I know people who will say the tall guy, or dark hair, and leave out if he is white or black, when that can be a fairly defining feature. They also get upset even when the police use race or skin color. I mean really, if you’re looking for a suspect you need as many descriptors as possible.

It’s like the gold stars from early grade school. We’re taught to hoard and collect all those “points”.