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Are people who are against PC being too radical?/Are people who are against PC using PC as a tool to criticize what they didn't like?

  Anita Sarkeesian's "The Tropes vs Women project" triggered a campaign of sexist harassment against Sarkeesian that included rape and death threats, hacking of her webpages and social media. Attackers posted comments online, vandalized Sarkeesian's article on Wikipedia with racial slurs and sexual images, and sent Sarkeesian drawings of herself being raped by video game characters. They even made a game called "Beat Up Anita Sarkeesian", a game to beat up Sarkeesian by clicking a mouse.

 Anyone can see that this is too much and this is one reason why political correctness is a controversial topic. Both sides are extreme and radical. 

 There is also an argument that being politically correct prevents freedom of speech, but is that true? Freedom of speech gives a person the right to say what they want, but it also gives other people the right to point out if they are being offensive. Freedom of speech doesn’t mean your words can’t be criticized.


Wikipedia contributors. (2021a, June 20). Anita Sarkeesian. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Sarkeesian

What’s the deal with political correctness? (n.d.). The Big Issues | ReachOut Australia. Retrieved July 14, 2021, from https://au.reachout.com/articles/whats-the-deal-with-political-correctness

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