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A major reason why today's politicians are so bland and uninspiring is because they have been groomed to never say anything controversial or contentious. Trawli
by olivermarks 5y ago
A major reason why today's politicians are so bland and uninspiring is because they have been groomed to never say anything controversial or contentious. Trawling through adults adolescence photos and shaming/blaming them for some youthful indiscretion is another aspect of this societal disaster.
The anti war candidate Tulsi Gabbard in the recent US election is an example of someone relentlessly ridiculed and destroyed despite the absence of anything controversial in her background and is a dismal example of the way politics works today.
Now we have the pretentious corporate diversity industry insisting no one in their orbit has any opinions that might offend. Hopeless.
- sm4rk0 5y agoAnd if there was a referendum: "Political correctness should be dismantled", I guess most people would vote "Hell yeah!". So much for democracy.
- olivermarks 5y agoI don't understand your point. Are you suggesting 'political correctness' - a relatively new term and phenomenon largely enabled by the internet - was something installed by society and is a good thing, and that a vote to 'dismantle' it would be a bad thing?
- sm4rk0 5y agoNo, quite the oposite.
- olivermarks 5y agoStill not clear what your point is?
- sm4rk0 5y agoMy point is that PC is forced upon us and that it's hindering free speech and no one benefits from it.
- jpadkins 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_correctness https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_correctness It's an old term, and has been used in it's current form since the 1970's. I remember it's usage in media in the 80s, before the commercial internet.
- olivermarks 5y agoLooks like mid eighties when term took off https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=politically+correct&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=3&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cpolitically%20correct%3B%2Cc0#t1%3B%2Cpolitically%20correct%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=politically+co...
- TheCoelacanth 5y agoIt's hardly a failing of democracy that vague platitudes don't get turned into policy. Ending "political correctness" might be unpopular in principle, but I doubt any specific proposal for how to dismantle it would be popular. How would you even do that? You can't force people to not be offended by something.
- 6foot4_82iq 5y agoThe most intolerant wins. > It suffices for an intransigent minority –a certain type of intransigent minorities –to reach a minutely small level, say three or four percent of the total population, for the entire population to have to submit to their preferences. > Further, an optical illusion comes with the dominance of the minority: a naive observer would be under the impression that the choices and preferences are those of the majority. https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dictatorship-of-the-small-minority-3f1f83ce4e15 https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...
- smsm42 5y agoPoliticians say a lot of controversial and contentious things. Just that they are contentious for the different people. People that it is now OK to offend. Corporations offend a lot of people - when Coca Cola makes training that tells their employees to "try to be less white", I am sure there are plenty of folks who find it offensive. When on CRT training people are told that certain race is evil from birth, it surely is offensive to many people. It's just that they are OK with offending those people, because they think they have enough power now to ignore their opinion.