Lysistrata
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Well since you have clearly embraced the concept, it explains so much.
What you call “political correctness”, my mother called “good manners”. You don’t insult people on the basis of race, sex, religion, or station in life.
Christianity makes it even clearer: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Added to the above: Judge not lest you be judged.
So there are no reasonable grounds in either good manners or the words of Jesus, that makes it OK to denigrate, insult or abuse others. Or to deny them service.
Your pretense that Political Correctnesss is just Good Manners is a lie and quite the offense to those of us who have been attacked and smeared with the weapon of PC.
Not to mention that you support jailing people for PC.
When did some people decide that taking ignorant potshots at whole demographic groups was consistent with "good manners"? What group are you that you were "attacked and smeared"? Men? Women? Straight? LGBT? White? Darker-skinned than white? Some ethnic background? Some religion or other? Name it.
I've been attacked for being White, Male, White Male, Straight White Male, Christian, and Southern, off the top of my head.
Which is funny, because I am not Southern and not really Christian.
I've never been attacked for being white. I've been attacked for being female. I've never been attacked for being straight. I've been attacked for not being a supporter of the strange variety of Christianity currently being mollycoddled by the republican mob.I have been attacked for standing up for the rights of others: LGBTs, darker-skinned people, Muslims, Jews.
The idea that there is something that can be called "political correctness" is stupid to begin with. The problem stems from people using their own identities to attack others. Where do you think that all of this "n*gger," "feminazi," "f*ggot," type stuff comes from? People who are not Jewish prancing around Charlottesville carrying torches and chanting about being "replaced" by Jewish people? Attacking other people is NOT good manners. It never was.
I don't get attacked just based on my identity, normally.
What happens is that I hold a position that a lib doesn't like, like supporting the Traditional Nuclear Family.
I say something to indicate WHY I think it is a good thing, and the lib in question, who can't refute my point,
attacks me personally.
"Racist" is the most common of course.
I agree that it is not good manners.
You need to explain your thoughts, better. Terms like "the Traditional Nuclear Family" are quite loaded. For instance, does it involve dominant/submissive roles between the genders? You cannot be so blind as to not know that this idea has been pushed for hundreds/thousands of years, particularly by religious groups? Do you explain why you don't want other people to enter into non-traditional marriages and how them doing so might affect you or others? Do you comment by race or by discussing what a person does that is wrong? I am writing from the perspective of someone who has been insulted as a woman when I was only trying to describe and condemn misconduct by some men, while leaving other men who did not do these things out of it. Ditto, with Christians.
BTW: I loved being present at the "Women's March" in January 2017 at Washington, DC. Maybe 500,000 people there. There were so many proud heterosexual men there, marching with their female partners, their wives and lovers, pushing strollers with babies in them. Honorable and loving men.