RE: Were social justice warriors responsible for the election outcome?
December 1, 2016 at 3:06 am
(This post was last modified: December 1, 2016 at 3:15 am by Homeless Nutter.)
(December 1, 2016 at 2:24 am)Bob Kelso Wrote: [...] On the other hand PC in the public and private domains is being used at it's best as annoying thought/speech policing, and at it's worst as a method to bully and publicly humiliate anyone with an opinion outside of the Borg's strict guidelines.
How? What methods exactly, are being used to bully and humiliate those people? Is there some governmental PC police force, that puts them on some sort of register, or otherwise inconveniences them? Some sort of organized apparatus of oppression? Or is it mainly - just some other people (sometimes lots of them) publicly speaking against them, in media and on the internet, or deciding not to do business with them and such? And isn't that also freedom of speech and enterprise?
In a society with freedom of speech, if I hold and express unpopular views, I have to be prepared, for quite a lot of people - perhaps the majority of them, if I'm a particularly anti-social a**hole - to have a negative opinion of me and openly speak against me. If I'm not "man enough" to withstand that - maybe I should just keep my trap shut?
"Anyone with an opinion outside of the Borg's strict guidelines" needs to stop being triggered by bespectacled fat girls with funny hair on Facebook, seems to me.
I was born in a country with actual thought/speech police - you know, the kind that could make you disappear, for saying the wrong thing. This fashionable new narrative of white man's liberties being restricted in the West - especially in USA - makes me laugh, though bitterly...
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw