yeahduff wrote:Here's the thing. The concept behind political correctness is good. Great even. Hey, let's stop belittling the less powerful in our society! Like anything else, it suffers from overapplication, but I'm personally glad it's unfashionable to call people fags, and I'm not gonna blame a dwarf if she wants to be more than a cheap site gag. If we keep our heads and don't expect everything to go under the same blanket, we'll do fine.
As for people who cry political correctness, those are the mother fuckers you should watch. They do exactly what they accuse the so-called "PC Police" of doing: Label everything they disagree with, closing off certain words and ideas as off-limits. Don't like what this kid's saying? Just call him PC and everything he says can be castoff as silly and Orwellian. It happens so often, people just throw it out there on reflex when the conversation has nothing to do with political correctness. The word doesn't mean anything anymore, and political incorrectness is the new political correctness.
Very well put, yeahduff. I could have said the same thing, only less articulately and convincingly.
As for the OT, there are three things I won't do in my strip; violence, profanity, nudity. I only avoid these things because I'm interested in syndication; otherwise I'd probably not shy away from the latter two. At the same time there are a lot of aspects of my strip that probably make it unsuitable for syndication anyway, but I'm predicting, probably overoptimistically, that the syndicates are going to have to eventually relax their restrictions a bit in order to survive.
Basically I use network TV as my guide; if it's not censored on network TV, I don't censor it in my strip.
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