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>going out of your way to rail against others' sensitivities (political incorrectness) helps nobody. It helps the people who are being bullied or silenced, wit
by jlawson 7y ago
>going out of your way to rail against others' sensitivities (political incorrectness) helps nobody.
It helps the people who are being bullied or silenced, with those sensitivities used as a justification.
Typically those sensitivities aren't involuntary. They're inculcated and exaggerated, both individually and on a mass basis, specifically as a lever to gain power over other people. If that lever for power stopped working, the vast majority of those sensitivities would stop existing.
Anti-PC is helpful because it sets out the right incentives. Instead of incentivizing people to become helpless, mentally-ill wrecks who "can't even" in the face of the slightest emotional or intellectual challenge, it incentivizes people to be the most centered and independent version of themselves they can.