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I think the Big Think video with John Cleese tackles the distinction between what she's addressing and that one line. "... political correctness has gone from

I think the Big Think video with John Cleese tackles the distinction between what she's addressing and that one line. "... political correctness has gone from a good idea, which is let's not be mean, particularly to people who are not able to look after themselves. That's a good idea. To the point where any kind of criticism of any individual or group can be labeled cruel ..." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAK0KXEpF8U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAK0KXEpF8U We made progressed when political correctness was used to combat nasty falsehoods, but digressed when it "over corrected" and suppressed valid criticism of observable phenomenon. I would check out some of the ideas from Slavoj Žižek as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavoj_%C5%BDi%C5%BEek https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavoj_%C5%BDi%C5%BEek

ZeroGravitas 11y ago
Well, it's tricky drawing that line isn't it? 19th century science proved that native americans, the irish, ... well basically everyone but the scientists themselves were inferior beings. The people who held those views didn't secretly believe that everyone was equal and they were making up lies for political advantage. They geniunely thought they were documenting objective facts about the inferior races according to science even though we can see from our perspective that it was all self-justifying nonsense. But if you'd asked them they'd say, yes, fine don't be mean, but this is valid criticism based on observable phenomenon.