RE: Peterson's 12 Rules For Life, have you heard of this?
August 16, 2018 at 4:25 pm
(This post was last modified: August 16, 2018 at 5:07 pm by bennyboy.)
Well, let me ask you again-- in your mind, why is there such a term as "PC left" rather than just left? Why do YOU think I identify strongly with the left, and with complete aversion to the PC left?
I cannot speculate on why you dismissed my very real tales of annoyance with such snide one-liners. And I'm not immediately sure, but it seems you may have changed your mind and edited them out, since I can't currently find them. But unless I misremember, your first response to my complaints about the effects of PC bullshit in my own workplace was, "Awwwww. . . so hard being a white man" and I'm quite sure that was meant ironically. So my human experience, at least at that point in the conversation, was irrelevant, very much on the basis of the implied privilege of my being white. I'm pretty sure if I was black, and was outlining similar frustrations I had with racists, your reaction would have diametrically opposite in its nature.
That I was on the street at 14, sexually harassed and sometimes beaten, lived in abandoned buildings, often with dirty old pervs trying to stick it to me, until I was emancipated (and therefore able to apply for welfare) at 16, worked 12 hours a day starting at age 17 in order to buy a piano, then practiced 8 hours a day to get into music school, which I paid for with student loans which burdened me for another 10 years-- it doesn't feel particularly like privilege to me. You've accused me of "virtue signaling." Should I assume that you're now going to coin the term "victim signaling"?
The PC position is that unless I'm willing to tell my entire life story, it should be assumed that any black or gay person automatically has issues that matter and a struggle in life worth caring about, and my difficulties as a straight white man should be assumed to be so trivial as to be discarded with a snide remark. Sound familiar?
Now, let me ask you to speculate on my perception of the world. Do you think I consider you more or less thoughtful than the average Joe on the street? And given that perception, if even you respond in that way, what would I expect from people less thoughtful from you, i.e. almost everybody with your politics but absent your intellect, consideration, and (apparently) free time to ponder these issues?
I cannot speculate on why you dismissed my very real tales of annoyance with such snide one-liners. And I'm not immediately sure, but it seems you may have changed your mind and edited them out, since I can't currently find them. But unless I misremember, your first response to my complaints about the effects of PC bullshit in my own workplace was, "Awwwww. . . so hard being a white man" and I'm quite sure that was meant ironically. So my human experience, at least at that point in the conversation, was irrelevant, very much on the basis of the implied privilege of my being white. I'm pretty sure if I was black, and was outlining similar frustrations I had with racists, your reaction would have diametrically opposite in its nature.
That I was on the street at 14, sexually harassed and sometimes beaten, lived in abandoned buildings, often with dirty old pervs trying to stick it to me, until I was emancipated (and therefore able to apply for welfare) at 16, worked 12 hours a day starting at age 17 in order to buy a piano, then practiced 8 hours a day to get into music school, which I paid for with student loans which burdened me for another 10 years-- it doesn't feel particularly like privilege to me. You've accused me of "virtue signaling." Should I assume that you're now going to coin the term "victim signaling"?
The PC position is that unless I'm willing to tell my entire life story, it should be assumed that any black or gay person automatically has issues that matter and a struggle in life worth caring about, and my difficulties as a straight white man should be assumed to be so trivial as to be discarded with a snide remark. Sound familiar?
Now, let me ask you to speculate on my perception of the world. Do you think I consider you more or less thoughtful than the average Joe on the street? And given that perception, if even you respond in that way, what would I expect from people less thoughtful from you, i.e. almost everybody with your politics but absent your intellect, consideration, and (apparently) free time to ponder these issues?
