Honest Liberal says it's time to take PC seriously

[Mac1958]

For those of you who deny the existence of PC (as funny as your denials are), you may not want to read this piece by honest liberal Jonathan Chait of New York Magazine:

Can We Start Taking Political Correctness Seriously Now?

The PC Police may finally be jumping the shark. From the piece:

The upsurge of political correctness is not just greasy-kid stuff, and it’s not just a bunch of weird, unfortunate events that somehow keep happening over and over. It’s the expression of a political culture with consistent norms, and philosophical premises that happen to be incompatible with liberalism. The reason every Marxist government in the history of the world turned massively repressive is not because they all had the misfortune of being hijacked by murderous thugs. It’s that the ideology itself prioritizes class justice over individual rights and makes no allowance for legitimate disagreement. (For those inclined to defend p.c. on the grounds that racism and sexism are important, bear in mind that the forms of repression Marxist government set out to eradicate were hardly imaginary.)

American political correctness has obviously never perpetrated the brutality of a communist government, but it has also never acquired the powers that come with full control of the machinery of the state. The continuous stream of small-scale outrages it generates is a testament to an illiberalism that runs deep down to its core (a character I tried to explain in my January essay).

"Illiberalism", indeed. You folks aren't liberal. And yes, I'll once again predict spin, deflection, denials and distortion from the PC Police here. Even though I predict it, you folks literally can't help yourselves.
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[ScienceRocks]

PC can't work with our first amendment. people have the right to say what they wish.

 

[martybegan]

Progressives in power will finally see what the issue is because these fascists in training are starting to go after THEM

 

[Ravi]

an honest liberal. There goes mac trying to spread harmony once again.

 

[bedowin62]

PC can't work with our first amendment. people have the right to say what they wish.

people have an obligation not to regurgitate lies in the interest of votes for the Democrat Party leftard

 

[ScienceRocks]

Well, that is up to them not too. Just remember, we have a first amendment!

 

[bedowin62]

Right-wingers have been trying to tell the self-impressed douchebottles on the Left for years now that their political-correctness would come back to haunt them.

but did they listen?

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

 

[Mac1958]

PC can't work with our first amendment. people have the right to say what they wish.

No, the Regressive Left has learned that it can use our own freedoms against us. It's neither illegal or unconstitutional for them to destroy people for expressing themselves.

Yes, it obviously flies directly in the face of the spirit of freedom of expression, but these people don't care. It's their constitutional right to intimidate and punish you, and they are going to exercise that right as long as they can get away with it.

Ironically they use the Constitution - a document they remind us was written by rich, white slave owners - to do this.
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[TNHarley]

an honest liberal. There goes mac trying to spread harmony once again.

IKR? Why use a oxymoron?

 

[PaintMyHouse]

PC = BS...

 

[Valerie]

"It’s that the ideology itself prioritizes class justice over individual rights and makes no allowance for legitimate disagreement. "



what a bunch of bullshit...

 

[ogibillm]

i really wish idiots that write about or talk about "pc" understood it first.

 

[Valerie]

anti pc rhetoric is all the rage and followers follow...

 

[Valerie]

you're perfectly FREE to be a jackass, Mac! God bless America...




Political correctness - RationalWiki


"Short of walking into a conversation, sandblasting the brick and installing track lighting, there is no surer way to announce one is from the 1980s than to mount an assault on 'political correctness,' the contemporary phrase for which is "not being a jackass."



The cliché term political correctness or "PC" is a snarl word usually referring to upholding a social taboo against language and attitudes that might be considered offensive and/or stupid.[1] This loaded term has become a boogey-man for the right-wing, who use it to tar anything that runs contrary to their own policies, such as letting women out of the kitchen or gays out of the closet.

Ruth Perry wrote in an essay entitled A Short History of the Term "Politically Correct"[2] that the term was first coined by Mao Zedong,[3] but was later hijacked by conservative eclectics who proceeded to overuse it in exactly the manner above described, hence taking all the juice out of it.[4] (Defending oneself with it might be the most popular handwave to dismiss social criticism.) More recently, advocates of political correctness have therefore substituted the term "civilized speech" for "politically correct" in order to boost its image in light of the PC backlash.

In full irony, conservatives have also adopted political correctness widely; trying to justify censorship on the grounds that something is "offensive to Christians," for example, or Conservapedia's insistence on BC/AD to the total exclusion of BCE/CE.

In fact, it's probably helpful to remember that in common parlance anything a conservative would consider to be polite speech isn't PC, whereas anything a liberal would consider to be polite speech is. This is why banning the "f-word" from broadcast is neutral and not PC at all, whereas banning a racial epithet from broadcast is.[5]

As above, passive-aggressive people who defend racism or reactionary views and but don't want to be labeled that way attack dissenters as "politically correct."[6]

 

[Ravi]

you're perfectly FREE to be a jackass, Mac! God bless America...




Political correctness - RationalWiki


"Short of walking into a conversation, sandblasting the brick and installing track lighting, there is no surer way to announce one is from the 1980s than to mount an assault on 'political correctness,' the contemporary phrase for which is "not being a jackass."



The cliché term political correctness or "PC" is a snarl word usually referring to upholding a social taboo against language and attitudes that might be considered offensive and/or stupid.[1] This loaded term has become a boogey-man for the right-wing, who use it to tar anything that runs contrary to their own policies, such as letting women out of the kitchen or gays out of the closet.

Ruth Perry wrote in an essay entitled A Short History of the Term "Politically Correct"[2] that the term was first coined by Mao Zedong,[3] but was later hijacked by conservative eclectics who proceeded to overuse it in exactly the manner above described, hence taking all the juice out of it.[4] (Defending oneself with it might be the most popular handwave to dismiss social criticism.) More recently, advocates of political correctness have therefore substituted the term "civilized speech" for "politically correct" in order to boost its image in light of the PC backlash.

In full irony, conservatives have also adopted political correctness widely; trying to justify censorship on the grounds that something is "offensive to Christians," for example, or Conservapedia's insistence on BC/AD to the total exclusion of BCE/CE.

In fact, it's probably helpful to remember that in common parlance anything a conservative would consider to be polite speech isn't PC, whereas anything a liberal would consider to be polite speech is. This is why banning the "f-word" from broadcast is neutral and not PC at all, whereas banning a racial epithet from broadcast is.[5]

As above, passive-aggressive people who defend racism or reactionary views and but don't want to be labeled that way attack dissenters as "politically correct."[6]

Notice he hasn't chimed in on the Starbuck's red coffee cup and the meltdown that cause among the rwnj PC police?

 

[bedowin62]

"It’s that the ideology itself prioritizes class justice over individual rights and makes no allowance for legitimate disagreement. "



what a bunch of bullshit...

what jokes you left-wingers are

how is it bullshit/?

 

[bedowin62]

you're perfectly FREE to be a jackass, Mac! God bless America...




Political correctness - RationalWiki


"Short of walking into a conversation, sandblasting the brick and installing track lighting, there is no surer way to announce one is from the 1980s than to mount an assault on 'political correctness,' the contemporary phrase for which is "not being a jackass."



The cliché term political correctness or "PC" is a snarl word usually referring to upholding a social taboo against language and attitudes that might be considered offensive and/or stupid.[1] This loaded term has become a boogey-man for the right-wing, who use it to tar anything that runs contrary to their own policies, such as letting women out of the kitchen or gays out of the closet.

Ruth Perry wrote in an essay entitled A Short History of the Term "Politically Correct"[2] that the term was first coined by Mao Zedong,[3] but was later hijacked by conservative eclectics who proceeded to overuse it in exactly the manner above described, hence taking all the juice out of it.[4] (Defending oneself with it might be the most popular handwave to dismiss social criticism.) More recently, advocates of political correctness have therefore substituted the term "civilized speech" for "politically correct" in order to boost its image in light of the PC backlash.

In full irony, conservatives have also adopted political correctness widely; trying to justify censorship on the grounds that something is "offensive to Christians," for example, or Conservapedia's insistence on BC/AD to the total exclusion of BCE/CE.

In fact, it's probably helpful to remember that in common parlance anything a conservative would consider to be polite speech isn't PC, whereas anything a liberal would consider to be polite speech is. This is why banning the "f-word" from broadcast is neutral and not PC at all, whereas banning a racial epithet from broadcast is.[5]

As above, passive-aggressive people who defend racism or reactionary views and but don't want to be labeled that way attack dissenters as "politically correct."[6]

you need an article to think for you??

 

[Mac1958]

And yes, I'll once again predict spin, deflection, denials and distortion from the PC Police here. Even though I predict it, you folks literally can't help yourselves.

And I called it, again.

Damn I'm good.

I really do amaze me with my fabulousness.


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[bedowin62]

how ironic that a person, even this liberal, trying to make this speech on a college campus would be shouted down and hounded off the premises

libs are absolutely hypocrites who lie to themselves

 

[bedowin62]

The cliché term political correctness or "PC" is a snarl word usually referring to upholding a social taboo against language and attitudes that might be considered offensive and/or stupid.[1] This loaded term has become a boogey-man for the right-wing, who use it to tar anything that runs contrary to their own policies, such as letting women out of the kitchen or gays out of the closet.

THIS is a left-wingers idea of a rational rebuttal from an objective source

too bad you pathetic left-wing jackasses are SO far gone in denial you're too stupid to realize when you've made the case for the other side