This is now becoming an issue because everyone has a voice. The PC police is nothing more than a result of the anonymity of the internet combined with the ease of voicing your opinion or response to someone.
The same number of people were 'outraged' when a celebrity or politician said something stupid 10 years ago, only now they can tweet directly at them in response, or log onto the politician's FB page and launch a diatribe, and it's all centralized and easily accessible. The 'viral' effect is a big one. People see the diatribe, agree, and it spreads. Now there is an 'outrage' across multiple platforms, and advertisers and media outlets are subject to pressures from the public.
People just have a platform for their 'cause' now.
As far as PC goes, society continues its onward march, and once popular opinions, as they always have, get marginalized.
The same number of people were 'outraged' when a celebrity or politician said something stupid 10 years ago, only now they can tweet directly at them in response, or log onto the politician's FB page and launch a diatribe, and it's all centralized and easily accessible. The 'viral' effect is a big one. People see the diatribe, agree, and it spreads. Now there is an 'outrage' across multiple platforms, and advertisers and media outlets are subject to pressures from the public.
People just have a platform for their 'cause' now.
As far as PC goes, society continues its onward march, and once popular opinions, as they always have, get marginalized.
"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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