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How much collective value has been used on politically correct speech? How much just from this thread of replies?

How many starving children have died who would instead be saved by that same collective value?

I want to say millions because I truly believe it would be close to billions(assuming that many could be saved).

Instead we encourage replacement words which over time become just as offensive. Of course, insults don't need to be limited to just English words either. Thus proving the entire endeavor is impossible since aggressors control more word choices than moderators.

Save a child. The UN says that is going to cost you about $160USD on average. (Based on 6.6B for 42M and please don't turn this into a dingbat/secondcoming thread)



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