"PC Culture" is just code for the axiomatic truth that societies change and things you used to be able to say aren't kosher anymore. It's been true forever, and it's true now.
It's just magnified because of social media. If you made a slightly racist joke in private, you might have gotten laughter, you might have gotten polite chuckle, you might have gotten a glare or a rebuke, but it was limited to the 3 people who heard it.
If you slapped your receptionist's ass at work, it used to be just fine and dandy. Now, you'll get #metoo'd (hopefully) and rightfully so.
Historically oppressed minorities never had a collective voice before social media. Their voice is now combined with other historically oppressed minorities, and our tolerance for bullshit is at a historical low.
Now you post a racist joke on twitter and it is there for everyone in the world to see it. People weren't ready for that. The backlash is swift and sometimes out of balance with the 'crime,' as it were. But them's the breaks. Sorry you didn't get the memo. We're done with getting stepped on because you could before.
Learn. How. To. Treat. Everyone. As. Equals.
It's just magnified because of social media. If you made a slightly racist joke in private, you might have gotten laughter, you might have gotten polite chuckle, you might have gotten a glare or a rebuke, but it was limited to the 3 people who heard it.
If you slapped your receptionist's ass at work, it used to be just fine and dandy. Now, you'll get #metoo'd (hopefully) and rightfully so.
Historically oppressed minorities never had a collective voice before social media. Their voice is now combined with other historically oppressed minorities, and our tolerance for bullshit is at a historical low.
Now you post a racist joke on twitter and it is there for everyone in the world to see it. People weren't ready for that. The backlash is swift and sometimes out of balance with the 'crime,' as it were. But them's the breaks. Sorry you didn't get the memo. We're done with getting stepped on because you could before.
Learn. How. To. Treat. Everyone. As. Equals.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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