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Political Correctness
Those on the right are obsessed with some conspiracy to restrict thier freedom of speech. What's up with this? Have we really reached some post-racial age where feeling compassion is stupid? Or is this some BS scheme concocted by the right to mask the fact that the world is JUST as oppressive as it was in the 1950s?
Now myself, I realize that even the handicapped object to "too much" compassion because it's annoying, but to say "words don't hurt" and the like is very false.
Defiantly not.Those on the right are obsessed with some conspiracy to restrict thier freedom of speech. What's up with this? Have we really reached some post-racial age where feeling compassion is stupid? Or is this some BS scheme concocted by the right to mask the fact that the world is JUST as oppressive as it was in the 1950s?
Now myself, I realize that even the handicapped object to "too much" compassion because it's annoying, but to say "words don't hurt" and the like is very false.
Well, in Australia recently (sort of recently), aboriginal protests were put down by police immediately after Campbell Newman came to power in Queensland.Or is this some BS scheme concocted by the right to mask the fact that the world is JUST as oppressive as it was in the 1950s?
From the description by the Socialist Alternative, it sounds just like something you'd expect to hear from the 'good ole days'.
In other earlier protests, demonstrators who burned the australian flag outside Parliament house were demonised by 'many aboriginal elders' the only named one being an official for the Australian Labour Party.
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political correctness is about being polite, showing respect.
you only really have an issue with political correctness if you're a right-wing, sexually repressed self righteous asshole. then suddenly you're desperately needing to justify being rude to everyone.
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Usually the people complaining about political correctness are racists, and various stripes of chauvinists, who think that they have the protected right to say whatever the fuck they want without consequence.
For example, one of these types might say something to the effect of "Muslims aren't welcome here!" and whether or not you tell them to go fuck themselves and smash a rock on their head or sit them down politely and explain to them in detail why their views are wrong and unacceptably not OK, you'll get the same ol' "welp, here comes the politically correct police! God damn liberal media taking away my right to free speech!"
So essentially they want it both ways. Obviously as a communist I'm not a constitutionalist but I would assume that most constitutional documents that handle the question of free speech say something to the effect of "the government will not infringe on the citizen's right to free speech" or something like that. We of course as communists know that that is bullshit anyway, but we still have to recognize that what it does not say is this:
"the citizen has the inalienable right to say whatever chauvinist, bigoted, or otherwise unacceptable bullshit they wish and their fellow citizen does not have the right to sit them down quietly and tell them why their views are not acceptable"
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"the citizen has the inalienable right to say whatever chauvinist, bigoted, or otherwise unacceptable bullshit they wish and their fellow citizen does not have the right to crack a rock over their head for being an insufferable dumbfuck."
Right-wingers complaining about political correctness are simply complaining that they can't be as racist, sexist and bigoted in general in public anymore. While we are not living in a post-racial/sexist/whatever society, some things have changed to an extent.
Good ole days? Almost a quarter of the state voted for Pauline Hanson in the 90s. Or the Palm Island death in custody in 2004.
It has already been said but 'political correctness' is a formal recognition that offering up prejudices, whether longstanding or not, in order to ridicule, marginalise or intimidate, are not acceptable in society. Those who object to 'political correctness' are invariably lamenting their lost freedom to vent their prejudices in public. It has nothing to do with freedom of speech and everything to do with freedom from hate speech.
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I've had it up to here with trolls like you. Look buddy, try saying that to my face and we'll see who's "buttmad".
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UUgggh I know, everyone is so obsessed with being PC, you can't even burn a flag or say 'fuck the troops' without the PC police horde descending. Nevermind the restrictions on what you can say about foreign policy. Next thing you know they'll be enforcing blasphemy laws.
a troll calling others trolls makes a whole lot of sense. take your bullshit to chit chat, champ.
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The term "political correctness" is what the psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton referred to as a thought-terminating cliché. That is the use of a loaded word, phrase or slogan, usually as an argumentum ad nauseum, to shut down debate. In any culture where the dominant discourses are profoundly wanting in thought, it is necessary that this method of thought control becomes a feature of everyday language.
Far from distinguishing one's self as an unorthodox thinker, to use this phrase in the belief you've shattered the illusions of anti-racists and others is an admission that you are programmed and probably don't think much at all.
Being a decent human being and not considering a group of people as inherently inferior due to skin color. If you want to call that polite, go ahead. Though, when I was being brought up, being polite referred to table manners and so on.
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I'm against PC when it is phony. For instance, when liberals say they love black people, but do nothing to help them.
I appreciate that at least you copy and paste your nonsense spam. It would be far more annoying if your inability to spell or formulate cohesive thought were more apparent.
The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one
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But to be fair, a lot of lefties said mean things about 9/11 to non-political American citizens. Isn't that cruel or is that "free speech"? For instance, if Latin American teams say 9/11 in sports matches involving US teams, then is that "rubbing thier face in it." ?
There's politically correct, and there's being an annoying liberal. If you get shocked at hearing the word "nigger" in a non-racist context, such as discussing it's origins, it's use in a film, or quoting someone, then you are an annoying liberal.
Political correctness is the right's best friend, but they are usually too stupid to understand that.
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