I‘m anti-PC because it’s a too long to silence people and makes people bigger sissies than they were before. With that said I condemn and have contempt for racism, sexism, homophobia, and bigotry. But PC has gone too far.
I am anti pc. I believe speech should be free....but in that freedom we have the responsibility to be kind to others. There is a fine line to walk. But it should be a personal walk not regulated by the government.
Your reply is confusing. PC means Politically Correct. If you are anti being politically correct what does having the responsibility to be kind to others have to do with it? It sounds to me as if you are pro PC m2c. What am I missing from your reply? What don't I understand? Thank you for your reply and Happy Thursday! :)
I know exactly what PC means. It is up to us to not try and hurt people purposely. Sadly, the PC culture has used it as a way to shut up people who simple have a different opinion of issues. A person cannot say they are for border control and LEGAL immigration without be accused by the PC crowd as being a racist. Or think that people should be vetted properly before being allowed to come to the USA Or support the right of people to pray in public without being called a bigot. Or support the right of the accused to defend himself for an accusation of rape, without being call sexist. Or support the right to Life for the unborn with being again being called a sexist or if female betrayer of your gender.
If is being used as a weapon to stifle free speech and dismiss the other valid opinions.
Very true. And the notion that all "right-thinking" people will all think alike, or if all given the "right" information they will all think alike stops just short of totalitarian regime "re-education" programs. I really think it originally grew out of etiquette which was to facilitate successful social interaction. Many people my age learned etiquette growing up both at home and taking classes. But it had not been politicized and it was just something we were taught was good for us. Respecting others, listening, fairness, helping those less fortunate. But I think what happened is that kin PC these pretty basic and simple notions all became hardened into specific actions and beliefs. As people lost their faith and hope in God they were looking around for other doctrines to hold onto and they seized upon etiquette. But then there came an overlay of other institutionalized "compassion" so rather than just helping others it was read automatically into certain acts and raised to the governmental level as though people were looking in lieu of belief in the Almighty, to the government instead for morality and to be their conscience. Which never made any sense to me since conscience is an individual thing and an institution any institution, cannot have a conscience. So became a matter of conscience writ large gone haywire. Which I think is responsible for the whole anti-ICE thing and similar beliefs. They identify certain situations and peoples as "victims" deserving of "compassion" but their kind of compassion only assures that they remain such "victims" because they are not supposed to be subject to the same rules or laws as the rest of us but only to their own. So what is created by such notions of "compassion" is an artificial class or caste system. And from the same impulse comes the notion that some of us who have by the grace of God or whatever dome well in life must pay more for the same items or services than those who have not done as well. Which is just crazy - and a tiered society is created. Anyone who comes from oppression is seen as a victim so should be welcomed to this country because of that. And of course while some people who get in that way might by their own efforts do well many have just as many hardships here as where they came from and they only know to handle them in the way they were accustomed to where they came from which often is criminal activity. Of course in addition to all the things you have mentioned.
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