Are they? The PC battle was triggered in part because of pronoun stuff being made into harder rules...
No, I'm claiming that multiple informal *sources* of explicit legal rules are (decorum, civility, notions of PC) are basically equivalent modulo power.
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the thing about an explicit rule is, regardless of where it came from or who's power it reinforces, you know what you get up front and someone violating their own explicit rules reveals themselves as a hypocrite (or tyrant) and suffers an appropriate loss of credibility.
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implicit PC norms are inconsistently enforced and result in unpredictable and often wildly disproportionate penalties. there is also no loss of credibility or any other mechanism of accountability because they are enforced by the mob and the mob has no credibility to protect.
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