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So to combat all of this you're going around correcting people and dismissing their perspectives as, among other things, the usual PC culture? Do you not think

So to combat all of this you're going around correcting people and dismissing their perspectives as, among other things, the usual PC culture? Do you not think your attitude will evolve in your children and theirs into the same mockery of kindness and it's own principles that has befallen everyone else?

hosh 10y ago
@kingpawn thank you for bringing this up. It's a good test, and something that my friends and I have been batting around privately for awhile. I have friends who see themselves as SJW activists as well as friends who see SJW as an obstacle for better communication. I clearly don't speak for @rustynails. However, I think he is establishing a genuine connection with people, exactly an application of what Kierkegaard was explaining. Rather than dismissing other people's concerns, in his examples, he is instead establishing their personhood. He makes it personal without make it personally insulting. There are probably other things I'm missing, but I'm eager to try them out. I notice similar breakdown in communication with my wife, but I think this would help a lot.
coldtea 10y ago
>So to combat all of this you're going around correcting people and dismissing their perspectives as, among other things, the usual PC culture? I think you've only got the correcting part right. The parent 's interventions, as explained, where not dismissing, and especially where not dismissive of anything and everything -- they were only answering hostile behavior or exclusion with more openness and understanding.