How to be Politically Correct!

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Pemalite said:

Depends on severity, once you damage someones reputation they may suffer from hardship, either monetary, social etc'.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_defamation_law#Criminal_defamation

9 people have been jailed in 12 years. (Check the citation, which sends you to a Database.)

They aren't really at odds.
Political Correctness helps create equality, reduce discrimination, reduce vitriolic attacks against various demographics.

Freedom of Speech, again, before Political Correctness was even a "thing" never entitled you to say whatever you desired, there was always restrictions on what you can say... And that would have continued with or without political correctness.

Hence why you push for equality first, once you get everyone equalised, you can then see who needs to be focused on.

Well thank god the US consitution doesn't make any mentions of protection from libel or any federal laws about libel either ... (Just be sure to stay away from the states that will enact libel laws and I'm sure one day there'll be an individually progressive supreme court that'll rule them unconstitutional ...)

Political Correctness is most certainly at odds with Free Speech when offense is in the eye of the beholder ... (What one individual may find offensive where another individual doesn't will create a precendent for chaos.) 

Actually you could be entitled to have said whatever you wanted just after the constitutional convention but after a series of supreme court developments that was retroavtively ruled away ...