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ghostpepper on May 29, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying v...

Offense and harm are not the same thing so IMHO you can't really make a sweeping statement about a group of people like that.

Also isn't political correctness subjective too? Or is there a canonical definition of what is and is not politically correct that I'm unaware of.

LordDragonfang on May 29, 2020 [–]

>Offense and harm are not the same thing

Correct, but it's disingenuous to suggest they're not strongly correlated at the group level.

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