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jimmytrick is correct, there is a disconnect on what PC means.
To liberals PCism is simple courtesy, not calling people things they don't want to be called, rescuing the history of the powerless, examining the art of other cultures, etc. There is a lot of truth to this.
To conservatives, PCism is thought control, erasing the history of white men, dengrating white men, etc. There is just enough truth to this to make it a valid concern.
The fact is, with any movement, PCism is going to have those people who go overboard, take things to their extreme, etc. Conservatives certainly don't like it when they are compared to Hitler, just because Hitler was a conservative. Neither should they then tar all feminists as being like Catherine McKinnon or Andrea Dworkin. The movement is vast, and as with most things, most people tend to fall in the middle and not in the extremes.
jimmytrick vividly illustrates the reality that many Black people had to live with, and some still did even twenty years ago (and may still today). I'm certain most people didn't know that people in the US still lived like that up into the 1980s.
Guess what jimmytrick, you did something "PC." You wrote about some of the ugly truths about America, you talked about the life experiences of someone outside the white comunity. There are people who even today deny that the effects of racism were ever really that bad.
Yeah, some of the stuff is silly, like saying that the aient Egyptians were really Black people when all the evidence suggests otherwise. Talking about the Tulsa race riot or the history of Gay people or the experiences of women in America isn't silly. Not calling someone a n***** is just simple decency, and yet most people just don't seem to get it. Somehow it's a denial of their rights if you get on someone's case about it.
To liberals PCism is simple courtesy, not calling people things they don't want to be called, rescuing the history of the powerless, examining the art of other cultures, etc. There is a lot of truth to this.
To conservatives, PCism is thought control, erasing the history of white men, dengrating white men, etc. There is just enough truth to this to make it a valid concern.
The fact is, with any movement, PCism is going to have those people who go overboard, take things to their extreme, etc. Conservatives certainly don't like it when they are compared to Hitler, just because Hitler was a conservative. Neither should they then tar all feminists as being like Catherine McKinnon or Andrea Dworkin. The movement is vast, and as with most things, most people tend to fall in the middle and not in the extremes.
jimmytrick vividly illustrates the reality that many Black people had to live with, and some still did even twenty years ago (and may still today). I'm certain most people didn't know that people in the US still lived like that up into the 1980s.
Guess what jimmytrick, you did something "PC." You wrote about some of the ugly truths about America, you talked about the life experiences of someone outside the white comunity. There are people who even today deny that the effects of racism were ever really that bad.
Yeah, some of the stuff is silly, like saying that the aient Egyptians were really Black people when all the evidence suggests otherwise. Talking about the Tulsa race riot or the history of Gay people or the experiences of women in America isn't silly. Not calling someone a n***** is just simple decency, and yet most people just don't seem to get it. Somehow it's a denial of their rights if you get on someone's case about it.
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