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[quote=Anonymous]I'm in my 40s. Once in high school, I repeated a joke that was going about on late night TV and one of my friends took offense, said it was racist and repeated it to all and sundry. No one else cared at all, particularly not my other friend, whose Middle Eastern origins had been the center of the joke. Everyone understood that I, a multiracial individual who was always kind to everyone, was not racist. But I learned from this that had my circle been more susceptible to group-think and performative virtue signaling, I could easily have lost friends and disappointed teachers and administration.

So I learned early on to be politically correct except with very close friends and relatives who understand that good humor is transgressive by definition. Nothing in writing, nothing that can be recorded, nothing on social media. And I teach my kids this.

I entirely agree with your point, OP. Virtue signaling from not very intelligent people who crave to fit in are a plague, because they don't think for themselves at all. All they do is misapply valid notions of tolerance and respect, but turn them around to use as tools of discrimination.

I'm outwardly PC, and keep the funny comments at home. [/quote]

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