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The above was aimed at the PC people who are fanatical.But there is no shortage of people who see fit to correct the ‘ideology’ of others and to abolish the conditions under which such erroneous thoughts can survive.
The above is an offered solution to the aforementioned 'problem'......since the unsound attitudes are deeply ingrained and often unconscious, a language must be developed that confronts and eliminates them.
You might have noticed that I never refer to 'wings' when I'm talking about PC. The PC have been silent for years on the slaughter in the ME by their 'beloved troops'. That's because they are cowards. They won't do or say anything that brings personal risk to themselves, which is why they stick to fashionable causes. Criticising 'heroic' troops isn't something that a coward is going to do in a hurry. It will become fashionable again in time, as it did in the sixties, and then they will go all 'hippy' with the best of them.Greta wrote: ↑Thu Nov 08, 2018 12:51 am Unlike most of the world, seemingly, I don't care about political correctness. People have always engaged in virtue signalling, just that when such signalling is right wing based it's "normal" and left wing based is "political correctness".
I noted very little worry over right wing hawks engaging in political correctness when they deliberately misrepresented criticism of the illegal Iraq invasion as criticism of the troops. Yet it's very similar in style to the game of misrepresenting complaints about excessive immigration rates as if it's a criticism of race rather than sheer numbers.
The re is a much broader issue - the abandonment of reason. People tend to be less reasonable, more frantic, nowadays. Reason - the capacity to be reasonable - requires calmness, and that is an ever harder quality to find in an overpopulating world where survival is ever less assured.
If there is a return to reason in my lifetime that would be a pleasant surprise. At the every time when we need to be most united to face common challenges we are becoming more divided. I suppose it's easier to deal with internal politics than facing down the forces of nature. Fighting is easier than thinking.vegetariantaxidermy wrote: ↑Thu Nov 08, 2018 1:53 amYou might have noticed that I never refer to 'wings' when I'm talking about PC. The PC have been silent for years on the slaughter in the ME by their 'beloved troops'. That's because they are cowards. They won't do or say anything that brings personal risk to themselves, which is why they stick to fashionable causes. Criticising 'heroic' troops isn't something that a coward is going to do in a hurry. It will become fashionable again in time, as it did in the sixties, and then they will go all 'hippy' with the best of them.Greta wrote: ↑Thu Nov 08, 2018 12:51 am Unlike most of the world, seemingly, I don't care about political correctness. People have always engaged in virtue signalling, just that when such signalling is right wing based it's "normal" and left wing based is "political correctness".
I noted very little worry over right wing hawks engaging in political correctness when they deliberately misrepresented criticism of the illegal Iraq invasion as criticism of the troops. Yet it's very similar in style to the game of misrepresenting complaints about excessive immigration rates as if it's a criticism of race rather than sheer numbers.
The re is a much broader issue - the abandonment of reason. People tend to be less reasonable, more frantic, nowadays. Reason - the capacity to be reasonable - requires calmness, and that is an ever harder quality to find in an overpopulating world where survival is ever less assured.
Indeed. He's very rational and clear-thinking. I like him a lot --but not his wife. She's a ditz.Greta wrote: ↑Thu Nov 08, 2018 10:56 am Steven Pinker provides an excellent balanced perspective on the issue:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iH_HJs88HzQ
