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Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
When Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez refers to immigrant detention centers as "concentration camps," or President Trump calls immigrants "illegals," they may take some heat for being politically incorrect. But using politically incorrect speech brings some benefits: It's a powerful way to appear authentic.
Researchers at Berkeley Haas [School of Business] found that replacing even a single politically correct word or phrase with a politically incorrect one—"illegal" versus "undocumented" immigrants, for example—makes people view a speaker as more authentic and less likely to be swayed by others.
"The cost of political incorrectness is that the speaker seems less warm, but they also appear less strategic and more 'real,'" says Asst. Prof. Juliana Schroeder, co-author of the paper, which includes nine experiments with almost 5,000 people and is forthcoming in The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. "The result may be that people may feel less hesitant in following politically incorrect leaders because they appear more committed to their beliefs."
Although politically correct speech is more often defended by liberals and derided by conservatives, the researchers also found there's nothing inherently partisan about the concept. In fact, conservatives are just as likely to be offended by politically incorrect speech when it's used to describe groups they care about, such as evangelicals or poor whites.
"Political incorrectness is frequently applied toward groups that liberals tend to feel more sympathy towards, such as immigrants or LGBTQ individuals, so liberals tend to view it negatively and conservatives tend to think it's authentic," says Berkeley Haas Ph.D. candidate Michael Rosenblum, the lead author of the paper (the third co-author is Francesca Gino of Harvard Business School). "But we found that the opposite can be true when such language is applied to groups that conservatives feel sympathy for—like using words such as 'bible thumper' or 'redneck'."
[...]Although President Trump's wildly politically incorrect statements seem to make him more popular in certain circles, copycat politicians should take heed. The researchers found that politically incorrect statements make a person appear significantly colder, and because they appear more convinced of their beliefs, they may also appear less willing to engage in crucial political dialogue.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 09 2019, @04:13AM (10 children)
Political correctness is ass-kissing for the snowflake votes. Way back when I was a kid (1960s) we openly called the undocumented immigrants crossing through our back yard "wetbacks". Even in the 1970s they were openly called "beaners". Blame it on the SJW snowflakes.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Booga1 on Monday September 09 2019, @04:38AM (1 child)
That comment makes me I wish I could mod it both flamebait and informative at the same time.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 09 2019, @05:02AM
Know exactly what you mean...
Today's politicians are like lukewarm beer.
Here's Jesus's take on it:
Revelation 3:16
“So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.”
King James Version (KJV)
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 09 2019, @08:06AM (6 children)
And we rightly and politically correctly call you a racist asshole who mostly likely is a racist Repubulican asshole, but around here, we call an asshole an asshole. You got a problem with that, you racist asshole? (Said very politely, while engaging in open-anti-racist-open carry. Some call us "antifa", some call us "Americans")
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 09 2019, @08:42AM (3 children)
Call it what you want - you're a racist yourself if you're antifa trash.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 09 2019, @09:05AM (2 children)
No, antifa is anti-racist, as well. Or are you a cracker white asshole we ought to string up as an example to all the other uppity white surpremacists? Oh, how it hurts to have the shoe on the other foot, you racist honky!
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 09 2019, @03:26PM (1 child)
It's funny that you idiots call me racist/white supremacist for using the words wetback and beaner when one of my ancestors was a freed slave, another related to Tecumseh, another related to Lincoln, and that I dated a Latino.
Shove your SJW up your political correct rear access orifice.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by DeathMonkey on Monday September 09 2019, @05:44PM
Or, maybe it's because you're assuming they're undocumented because they look hispanic.
The actions of your grandparents has no bearing on weather you're a racist or not.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Monday September 09 2019, @05:42PM (1 child)
-1: Flamebait
And look at those conservative snowflakes censoring this politically incorrect statement!
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Tuesday September 10 2019, @05:32AM
Everyone here has the same number of mod points, ready to spend every day, at a rate of one per comment. If you don't agree with a comment's downmods, mod it back up. If it's still modded down, maybe you're outnumbered.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 09 2019, @02:16PM
And one possible conclusion one might get from the article is that political incorrectness is ass-kissing for the fearful votes who want to give their will over to the "strong man" who will save them. When you were a kid black folks couldn't attend white universities and the white power movement was as nicely open as it is sadly becoming again today. So I think I'll blame it on the Rednecks and the Sheets.