RE: Political Correctness
June 26, 2015 at 2:20 pm
(This post was last modified: June 26, 2015 at 2:25 pm by Regina.)
It's contextual in my opinion.
Sometimes there's real downright racism, misogyny or homophobia that has to be challenged. I don't consider calling Charleston "racially motivated terror" and having discussions about race in response politically correct, it needs to happen in this instance. But if you find everyone getting offended over the tiniest of things, it becomes a walking on eggshells society which is unpleasant. Life's too short to find oppression in everything, pick your battles. There's also nothing wrong with satire or dark humour in the right context.
I don't like seeing religion defended for the purpose of being politically correct. The fact is Christianity and Islam in particular are the cause of a great deal of oppression in the world. Of course it's not all Christians and all Muslims who are responsible, but you don't help the discussion by derailing it constantly reminding us that.
Sometimes there's real downright racism, misogyny or homophobia that has to be challenged. I don't consider calling Charleston "racially motivated terror" and having discussions about race in response politically correct, it needs to happen in this instance. But if you find everyone getting offended over the tiniest of things, it becomes a walking on eggshells society which is unpleasant. Life's too short to find oppression in everything, pick your battles. There's also nothing wrong with satire or dark humour in the right context.
I don't like seeing religion defended for the purpose of being politically correct. The fact is Christianity and Islam in particular are the cause of a great deal of oppression in the world. Of course it's not all Christians and all Muslims who are responsible, but you don't help the discussion by derailing it constantly reminding us that.
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
