Political Correctness

[Rev. Rye]

Taken to "the extreme" it's still just "extreme courtesy".

Or it just becomes the same old bigoted attitudes, except this time, they favor the historically oppressed at the expense of those who were previously of the oppressor class. That said, at least that sort of left-wing extremism is nowhere near mainstream (outside of social media hiveminds, anyway.)

“The oppressed look up to their oppressors, and cannot wait to follow their examples.” -William S. Burroughs.

I prefer to look at things on a case-by case basis to see what’s actually workable. That said, most of the time, I tend to agree with the “Politically Correct” crowd, although if they’re advocating something counterproductive, I won’t hesitate to point that out.

It may be common courtesy, but my study of human history suggests that “Common Courtesy” is not all that common, especially when you try extend it to EVERYONE. It may not even be that natural. It was only fairly recently that nations even decided making the desires of its people a priority was a good idea. And for most of that time, we’ve struggled with the prospect of letting women and political minorities in on the act. And that’s still a problem. And I can’t be sure that putting a courteous facade will actually help change things all that much. Remember the days when racism was pretty much universally considered socially unacceptable? Didn’t stop Trump from rising to power on a campaign based solely on Faerie Dust and blatant racism.

Why, yes, that does suck.