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Looking back, I wonder what we will think of our current trend towards political correctness; to me it seems fragile. For instance, what do people gain from te
by david-cako 6y ago
Looking back, I wonder what we will think of our current trend towards political correctness; to me it seems fragile. For instance, what do people gain from teasing or being risque? It seems like we're doing so much to be inclusive, that we're reducing the space where the risque exists; precisely the idea that something "shouldn't be said", but that boundaries may be pushed by virtue of where or how it is done.
I wonder a lot about why some things are deserving of being teased or excluded. Should anything be? It should, right?
If we were all truly accepting, we could tease each other gently and not want to take each others jobs and Twitter accounts away. That would be an "antifragile" social ethic.
- BreakfastB0b 6y agoI find the name “political correctness” pretty funny these days in the era of Trump, Modi, and Bolsonaro. It used to mean the kind of guarded speech that politicians had to use to protect their careers. But now we’ve seen that you can literally say whatever the fuck you want as a politician and there are no consequences.
- david-cako 6y agoTo illustrate, in Silicon Valley, I might be fired if I mentioned in the break room that I think "pronouns" are unsexy. And yet, it is a matter of my individual and sexual identity that I would want to say this, because I find it funny and I enjoy the risque. In fact, it might even turn some people on, even if they do have their pronoun in their Slack bio. Why is my declaration of identity less meaningful or less protected? My hope is that I can continue to say silly things like this out of personal context, and still be accepted and valued as a person in society.