Peterson's 12 Rules For Life, have you heard of this?

[The Grand Nudger]

For example..the phrase "I don't like identity politics" - has become a euphemism for ones discomfort in discussions of racial discrimination or gender inequality....because of a feeling that one is constantly being blamed for those things.  Now, you can tell me I'm wrong and that I'm full of shit but...this thread exists and you've laid your heart bare on that count multiple times.

I don't need euphemisms.  If I decide I don't like black people in general, that'll be the title of my next thread I promise.

I currently admire two black people I've recently worked with, and they are both from Canada.  So maybe it isn't black people that are so freaking annoying-- maybe it's Americans that are annoying, responsibility-dodging bitches, or college kids or something.

But nah, I had a Hispanic girl and a Chinese American, and they were among my best workers.

-and I have alot of black friends! 

I'm not saying you need euphemisms, Benny..I'm pointing out that you've employed one, either wittingly or unwittingly.  That you have made a euphemism for your noted discomfort the definition of an ideology...but that this euphemism does not accurately describe that ideology.  Further, that the employment of this euphemism is, in fact...a fully accurate expression of the very thing you've employed it against.

Take a step back and see how this thread panned out. For many, many pages you derided people who were telling you true things about a person who employed this euphemism in a manner similar to the way you do. A person who's academic credentials, though irrelevant, and whose compatriotism in that limited area... emboldened you in your wrong headed certitude....caused you to sink your own personal credibility and credulity into a doomed argument.

You are doing this same thing with "the pc left". In the process you are repeatedly falling into stereotypes of people you would not associate or identify yourself with.

In that dilemma of shit vs. poo,

IKR?

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-and before it even happens.  Don't bother responding with some comment meant to express that you are not a filthy racist or misogynist or transphobe or nutball conspiracist who thinks that marxists are out to get you.


I don't think you actually -are- any of those things.  I think that you are reading their script because they have successfully convinced you of what is untrue, and that your life experiences probably have something to do with being categorized among them for reasons you are unable to comprehend (or are simply unwilling to confront).