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Many of the "social justice" crowd get off on the moral superiority they feel from engaging in rabid political correctness. Unfortunately for them, moral super
by hagan_das 12y ago
Many of the "social justice" crowd get off on the moral superiority they feel from engaging in rabid political correctness.
Unfortunately for them, moral superiority is by definition a positional good, a good whose value rapidly diminishes as PC concepts become increasingly mainstream. Thus they seek increasingly extreme levels of political correctness to signal their status as being above the common rabble.
- SafariDevelop 12y agoAs Kristian wrote "Political Correctness is really just a special form of conspicuous consumption, leading to a zero-sum status race. The fact that PC fans are still constantly outraged, despite the fact that PC has never been so pervasive, would then just be a special form of the Easterlin Paradox" http://www.iea.org.uk/blog/the-economics-of-political-correctness http://www.iea.org.uk/blog/the-economics-of-political-correc...