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This stuff really isn't liberal at all. Our culture is Protestant, Christian, Puritan. Always present beneath it is a deep subsurface ocean of sexual paranoia,

by api 11y ago

This stuff really isn't liberal at all. Our culture is Protestant, Christian, Puritan. Always present beneath it is a deep subsurface ocean of sexual paranoia, prudery, and holier than thou moral crusading. Overt religious forms of this are out of vogue, so it creates a sort of pressure that must be released. Campus PC ideology forms an easy framework for a good old fashioned Protestant moral crusade.

TeMPOraL 11y ago
That's how I start to view the SJW movement. Our parents and grandparents were outraged by people violating morality as described by religion. Our generation gets outraged by people violating whatever random moral sensitivities are popular nowadays (often opposite to the religious ones). Nothing has changed, people are people.
happyscrappy 11y ago
That is a clever way to try to pin the PC craze on conservatives but it doesn't hold water. PC nonsense is wholly owned by the left.
- api 11y ago
  "Left" and "right" are pretty superficial things.
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jessaustin 11y ago
I think you're mostly right here, although as the downvotes indicate, this possibility is unsettling to many. When judgmental people are prevented by prevailing mores from fully exercising their judgmentalism, their efforts will be concentrated on the unfortunate few who remain acceptable targets. Many judgmental people don't like young women to be sexually active (this seems to have been the case for all of recorded history). One can't complain directly about that nowadays, however, so one must complain about whoever vile tempters can be blamed, however tenuously, for the sexual activity of young women. A similar phenomenon exists with respect to abortion and infanticide. Once upon a time, we would have been fairly merciful toward young mothers troubled enough to kill their own children. Now, however, our harridan-in-chief Nancy Grace leads the popular crusade to crucify the poor mothers. The reason is that many people feel very uncomfortable about abortion, but have no other acceptable outlet for that discomfort.

by api 11y ago

TeMPOraL 11y ago

That's how I start to view the SJW movement. Our parents and grandparents were outraged by people violating morality as described by religion. Our generation gets outraged by people violating whatever random moral sensitivities are popular nowadays (often opposite to the religious ones). Nothing has changed, people are people.

happyscrappy 11y ago

That is a clever way to try to pin the PC craze on conservatives but it doesn't hold water. PC nonsense is wholly owned by the left.

api 11y ago
"Left" and "right" are pretty superficial things.
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jessaustin 11y ago

I think you're mostly right here, although as the downvotes indicate, this possibility is unsettling to many. When judgmental people are prevented by prevailing mores from fully exercising their judgmentalism, their efforts will be concentrated on the unfortunate few who remain acceptable targets. Many judgmental people don't like young women to be sexually active (this seems to have been the case for all of recorded history). One can't complain directly about that nowadays, however, so one must complain about whoever vile tempters can be blamed, however tenuously, for the sexual activity of young women. A similar phenomenon exists with respect to abortion and infanticide. Once upon a time, we would have been fairly merciful toward young mothers troubled enough to kill their own children. Now, however, our harridan-in-chief Nancy Grace leads the popular crusade to crucify the poor mothers. The reason is that many people feel very uncomfortable about abortion, but have no other acceptable outlet for that discomfort.