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It's important that everyone knows that violations against political correctness are serious things. Whether a person calls a commit that changes "he" to "they
by yetanotherphd 13y ago
It's important that everyone knows that violations against political correctness are serious things. Whether a person calls a commit that changes "he" to "they" trivial, or refuses to assert that women are at least as intelligent, if not more, than men, or attributes Africa's problems to something other than racism and exploitation, it is important that that person loses their job.
Otherwise, how will people know who holds the power - straight White non-Jewish men, that is.
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- yetanotherphd 13y agoThose people are already far beyond the pale, but I was referring to more benign cultural explanations. A professor was fired for his "racist" suggestion that cultural differences could help explain the relative poor performance of Black Kenyans relative to Indian Kenyans in running local businesses. The sad irony is that this man committed suicide over this, and that he was a committed liberal anti-racist. In this case the progressives had no compunction in sacrificing one of their own. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6705401 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6705401 http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2007/09/since-some-people-seem-to-still-think.html http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2007/09/since-s...
- aaronem 13y ago> In this case the progressives had no compunction in sacrificing one of their own. Of course not. What is a mere person, compared to the progressive ideal?