RE: The sad future of the democratic party
February 10, 2017 at 6:49 pm
(This post was last modified: February 10, 2017 at 6:51 pm by Regina.)
My response is, I do think people need to have some conviction and stand by what they say a bit more.
If you're so bothered by "political correctness", you're not doing much to fight against it by backing down and crying when people call you out on something you said that offends them. If you genuinely believe what you said is a reasonable well-thought-out opinion and you have a decent argument to back-up what you're saying, stand by what you said.
There's people who would probably think I'm "bigoted" and "transphobic" because I don't accept these attention-seeking Tumblrina "76 genders", and because I don't believe gender is entirely a social construct. Oh fucking well that's my opinion, and if the best argument you have against that is to be outraged and throw some generic buzzword at me, I'm not bothered.
If you're so bothered by "political correctness", you're not doing much to fight against it by backing down and crying when people call you out on something you said that offends them. If you genuinely believe what you said is a reasonable well-thought-out opinion and you have a decent argument to back-up what you're saying, stand by what you said.
There's people who would probably think I'm "bigoted" and "transphobic" because I don't accept these attention-seeking Tumblrina "76 genders", and because I don't believe gender is entirely a social construct. Oh fucking well that's my opinion, and if the best argument you have against that is to be outraged and throw some generic buzzword at me, I'm not bothered.
"Adulthood is like looking both ways before you cross the road, and then getting hit by an airplane" - sarcasm_only
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
