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Comment author: fubarobfusco 13 August 2013 09:11:40PM *  2 points [-]

I'd take the author's "anti-PC" to mean something like "seeing 'political correctness' everywhere, and hating it."

For instance, there are folks who respond to requests for civil and respectful behavior on certain subjects — delivered with no force but the force of persuasion — as if those requests were threats of violence, and as if resistance to those requests were the act of a bold fighter for freedom of speech.