I'm trying to think of something more un-American than political correctness and it's just not coming to me.
Democracy is a pitfall the founding fathers warned us about, they formed a Republic.
I'm trying to think of something more un-American than political correctness and it's just not coming to me.
Democracy is a pitfall the founding fathers warned us about, they formed a Republic.
Last edited by titsonritz; 10-11-18 at 13:05.
Gettin' down innagrass.
Let's Go Brandon!
Yeah, but it's the people on the extremes that vote - of the most importance is that they vote in primaries, which means they're picking our "choices" for us. It's a poorly kept secret that the real races anymore are the primaries. I'm somewhere between "moderate" and "traditional conservative", but I vote in every election - local, primaries, generals, all of them. It may not matter when the fringes are turning out en masse, but I'll be damned if I don't do my small part.
Might be a logical fallacy, but there has to be some correlation between being more educated and being more likely to accept PC culture, vis a vis the number of people on the fringes (both sides, but mainly left) who make up academia. I spent 7 years in higher education and it only made me more likely to vote Republican, so I'm not sure what inference I can draw from that. I was also 25 when I went back for post-grad and had spent 3 years working, so maybe that made a difference. I wasn't spoon fed liberal shit straight through and actually had to pay taxes in the interim. I do like to try and look at things objectively and have an intelligent debate about stuff, but anymore you don't know how someone is going to take something you've said unintendedly or who else is listening and does the same. So, the easiest choice is just to not have these discussions at all and then the fringes fill the vacuum.
Depends on what you're calling the "right". If you're talking about "devoted conservatives", then sure, but I think that's part of the point, anyway; it's also why they'll never actually get anything to change because they can't at least comprehend how those might be issues. A majority of people are willing to have an intelligent discussion about those issues, but they're not willing to do that if there's a chance they'll be labeled a racist, misogynist, etc. for offending someone in the process. If you have any interaction with society, it's hard to shake a label like that, especially if you don't deserve it.
You can see immigration, the extent of white privilege, and the prevalence of sexual harassment as real issues and not be a progressive activist or even a traditional liberal. I'll grant that they're not high on my priorities list, but I wouldn't pretend they're not issues.
Last edited by sundance435; 10-11-18 at 15:58.
sundance435 - thanks for that post. Great points.
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President... - Theodore Roosevelt, Lincoln and Free Speech, Metropolitan Magazine, Volume 47, Number 6, May 1918.
Every Communist must grasp the truth. Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party Mao Zedong, 6 November, 1938 - speech to the Communist Patry of China's sixth Central Committee
I strongly ignore it. And if some PC wuss wants to give me a hard time, I go full Archie on 'em.
- Either you're part of the problem or you're part of the solution or you're just part of the landscape - Sam (Robert DeNiro) in, "Ronin" -
"In a nut shell, if it ever goes to Civil War, I'm afraid I'll be in the middle 70%, shooting at both sides" — 26 Inf
"We have to stop demonizing people and realize the biggest terror threat in this country is white men, most of them radicalized to the right, and we have to start doing something about them." — CNN's Don Lemon 10/30/18
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