Respectify! is software that takes an opinionated approach to political correctness.
Between politicians, news journalists, and internet commenters, the country is abuzz with "political correctness." Is it a powerful form of censorship, or is it just a moral framing that values the respect of all people? Regardless of your opinion, the furor will continue!
A few years ago, Neil Gaiman made the observation that often "political correctness" was used to blame for not being able to treat other people with respect.
I was reading a book (about interjections, oddly enough) yesterday which included the phrase “In these days of political correctness…” talking about no longer making jokes that denigrated people for their culture or for the colour of their skin. And I thought, “That’s not actually anything to do with ‘political correctness’. That’s just treating other people with respect.”
Which made me oddly happy. I started imagining a world in which we replaced the phrase “politically correct” wherever we could with “treating other people with respect”, and it made me smile.
You should try it. It’s peculiarly enlightening.
I know what you’re thinking now. You’re thinking “Oh my god, that’s treating other people with respect gone mad!”
I laughed out loud! I did find it enlightening! Instead of feeling a tiny bit sad and angry every time I read something about being "political correct", now I too smile and feel oddly happy. I want to share this feeling with you, and not just by hoping you imagine such a world, I want you to see it so I made you this Chrome Extension.
Ok, that was fun but how do I turn this damn thing off?
Just visit your extensions preferences
(Window > Extensions) or by typing chrome://extensions/ into your browser and
find Respectify and uncheck the "Enabled" box, or click the trash can to remove
it completely.
Will installing this steal all my personal information?
Nope! See below for more details.
Thats not what "Politically Correct" even means you pansy leftist SJW!
But it's funny. If it doesn't bring you joy, don't use it!
An installed Chrome extension can run code on every page that you visit. This can be a little scary if you don't know exactly what that code is doing or don't trust the developer. This is the primary motivation for including an open source and documented source code!
If you're interested in building your own Chrome extension, check out their developer documentation and feel free to use this as an example.
When your extension is ready, you can zip it up with zip -x ".*" -x "**/.*" -r respecify.zip . and
submit it to the Chrome Web Store.
Respectify! is licensed as Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. That means you can copy and remix this to your hearts content, but should drop a note with a link to this original if you do.