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Who is projecting their feelings onto others? Americans Strongly Dislike PC Culture https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/large-majorities-dislike

Who is projecting their feelings onto others? Americans Strongly Dislike PC Culture https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/large-majorities-dislike-political-correctness/572581/ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/large-majo... ' a full 80 percent believe that “political correctness is a problem in our country.” ' And no, "Youth isn’t a good proxy for support of political correctness, and race isn’t either." Yes, the dislike is lowest among African Americans, but still at a whopping 75%. So who supports PC? The only group is progressive activists. What do they look like, demographically? Rich, white, educated. The author additionally ran a twitter poll: "Nearly all of my followers underestimated the extent to which most Americans reject political correctness. Only 6 percent gave the right answer. (When I asked them how people of color regard political correctness, their guesses were, unsurprisingly, even more wildly off.)"

JMTQp8lwXL 6y ago
This reduction seems to be drawing too many absolute conclusions. Only X believes Y. Life is rarely that cut and dry.
- mpweiher 6y ago
  > Only X believes Y. The word "only" is a direct quote from the article: "Progressive activists are the only group that strongly backs political correctness: Only 30 percent see it as a problem." (My emphasis) There are no "absolute" conclusions in my summary, it's all in the text, mostly direct quotes, and the text is, as far as I can tell, a fairly straight representation of the findings. > Life is rarely that cut and dry. But sometimes it is, such as in this case. The data are unequivocal. Now, you are obviously free to believe that you are right and the (vast) majority is wrong. But if you think that you have majority support for your opinions then you are deluding yourself.

JMTQp8lwXL 6y ago

This reduction seems to be drawing too many absolute conclusions. Only X believes Y. Life is rarely that cut and dry.

mpweiher 6y ago
> Only X believes Y. The word "only" is a direct quote from the article: "Progressive activists are the only group that strongly backs political correctness: Only 30 percent see it as a problem." (My emphasis) There are no "absolute" conclusions in my summary, it's all in the text, mostly direct quotes, and the text is, as far as I can tell, a fairly straight representation of the findings. > Life is rarely that cut and dry. But sometimes it is, such as in this case. The data are unequivocal. Now, you are obviously free to believe that you are right and the (vast) majority is wrong. But if you think that you have majority support for your opinions then you are deluding yourself.