The video pretty drastically oversold the benefits of Political Correctness, in my opinion. I do, however, completely agree that generic "politeness" is a far superior standard to hold yourself to or goal to aspire to.

PC vs politeness seems very highly analogous to perceiving things as either intrinsically "offensive" or being personally "offended". Humor is frequently a fantastic way of exploring those kinds differences, and SMBC comics did an excellent strip on offensive vs offended:
http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2011-02-23

The conclusion there is that "I'm offended" starts arguments (ie., it can create rational and beneficial dialog) while "offensive" ends them (ie., it stifles progress). I feel that it is equally accurate to say that politeness can help resolve problems while PCness really doesn't; it is possible to politely disagree, but in the realm of PC disagreement in and of itself is often deemed offensive and seen as something to be discouraged.

I think part of being an adult is learning that people will often disagree, and that is actually a good thing.

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Not bad, and definitely nicely strange, but I keep giggling because it reminds me too much of this.

>> ^NetRunner:

>> ^Kreegath:
However, he does make his opinion clear that he doesn't think ending slavery was the deciding reason for the civil war, something that I've actually heard is a historically defensible position.

Heard from who?


http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2475

>> ^hpqp:

quality (the video, not the two-party political system)


Thanks for the quality!

>> ^Sagemind:

Hive-Dating ?? Imagination overload....


I like hive dating.

Oh god... it's real!!!

Thank you.

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>> ^Reefie:

Oh god my eyes my eyes!
Ahaha fantastic!


And she fell! LOL!

*meme almost!

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