well acc to Deck Knight there's a kill squad committing genocide or some shit on anyone who cannot memorize all the 72 pronouns.truthfully, i don't really understand the push back against social justice. what's so wrong with people wanting to be treated with respect and feeling safe in their environment? people are going to be militant about wanting this. idk.. how many of you have actually met a tumblr person irl who has tried to stifle your speech? i've literally never encountered that kind of conversation, ever, irl, and yet it's all i hear people complain about in these types of threads
The thing with political correctness is, too many non racist cases have been falsely labelled racist.because this is a us-centric website and the majority of posters are from the united states. there are a lot of global complexities with race and race relations but "the white man's burden" is a global issue, as so many countries are still facing the negative lasting effects that colonialism had on them.
truthfully, i don't really understand the push back against social justice. what's so wrong with people wanting to be treated with respect and feeling safe in their environment? people are going to be militant about wanting this. idk.. how many of you have actually met a tumblr person irl who has tried to stifle your speech? i've literally never encountered that kind of conversation, ever, irl, and yet it's all i hear people complain about in these types of threads
This is exactly why political correctness is flawed.intent doesn't affect impact
Much like most of the 2016 election, You can flip a few buzzwords here and there and make the same statement about any political ideology ever.As it stands, culture/traditions seem to be celebrated by many liberals up until the point where they inconveniently lead people to hold beliefs or make actions contrary to modern liberal morality.
And I can sum up the problems facing the Modern Right right now.I can sum up the problems social liberals are facing right now fairly briefly, which I'm sure thread readers will enjoy compared to the rest of the thread:
To analogize, The Social Left has become the Religious Right of the 1950-80's, except the Religious Right was defined by a static God with fixed beliefs one could hold Religious Rightists accountable to. Arguments were then advanced which relied on these facets (along with some counter-ideological moral browbeating) and pretty much every authoritarian impulse has been bred out of right-of-center people. Religious Rightists are now at the point where we have to explain to society, patiently, why venerating all aberrant sexual habits doesn't "Trump" venerating our own God when we open up our business or just go to work in the morning.
Social Justice / Social Left replaced that fixed God with an amorphous Moloch that is never satisfied until you can recite the 78 Tumblr Genders and psychically know which ones apply to all people at all times - and then it will invent a new, even crazier sin to repent from to install in your daily social interaction. The entire movement completely lacks empathy for its declared enemies, such that when blatant Christian bigotry is stated and then pointed out, the response is "Oh, the poor Christians! [Subtext: What about real victims without privilege of advantageous power dynamics?]" The guy who lost his factory job in Michigan twenty years ago and has been drifting from non-career to non-career ever since doesn't care that the people he sees shooting up and burning down Detroit every day have higher social value in academia than he does. To him, Academia is nothing but Communist professors and spoiled brats (and current events note: their behavior since November 9th is actively confirming this bias)!
The Social Left movement has been repudiated because it's become a Moral Movement without a Moral Center, and as people will often do when moral busybodies get drunk on institutional power (academia, government, the media,) they rebel using any tool available. Trump made himself available as a tool with at least the temerity to push back, and his base "unacceptable-ness" was entirely the point for many of his voters.
The issue with political correctness is that it was labeling non-racism as racism, non-sexism as sexism, and inventing new "isms" and "phobias" by the day while ignoring the bread and butter problems of normal people. The race to be a "good person" became about signaling your level of rightthink virtue, false damnation of your own "privilege," and -pardon the expression- "white-knighting" for whoever was most oppressed by a random person's wrongspeak that day. Normal people struggling with a stagnant economy who are flatly told they are ineligible for social concern have no tolerance for that arrangement.
I have a few more thoughts but I promised to be brief.
Why should it? Why is ignorance a get-out-of-jail card? Yeah, being unintentionally an asshole is better than intentionally being one but neither position is good, the problem is when we ignore or even allow said stupidity because of reasons and when the ignorant person is unwilling to change it's stance even when called upon, then you transform from innocently insensitive to a huge jackass thanks to some misguided sense of entitlement.This is exactly why political correctness is flawed.
Why is intent not considered when judging something?
Piggybacking off what Gerard said, let's pretend you accidentally ran over your neighbor's dog. You didn't intend to kill the dog, but it's still dead. Is it really that hard to apologize and be more vigilant while driving in the future?This is exactly why political correctness is flawed.
Why is intent not considered when judging something?
Because no Japanese needs to know what a blackface is.Why should it? Why is ignorance a get-out-of-jail card? Yeah, being unintentionally an asshole is better than intentionally being one but neither position is good, the problem is when we ignore or even allow said stupidity because of reasons and when the ignorant person is unwilling to change it's stance even when called upon, then you transform from innocently insensitive to a huge jackass thanks to some misguided sense of entitlement.
I can see that it is still bad whether being intended or not.Piggybacking off what Gerard said, let's pretend you accidentally ran over your neighbor's dog. You didn't intend to kill the dog, but it's still dead. Is it really that hard to apologize and be more vigilant while driving in the future?
Now part of this scenario depends on your neighbor's reaction. A decent person would, I hope, recognize your negligence for what it was -- no malice intended. It was an accident, after all. But I think that's what the argument boils down to: decency. If both parties could be more gracious* during the unintentional racist/sexist/72-other-ists encounters, (the offender apologizes, the "victim" doesn't fly off the handle), we could stop fighting so much. Intent should play some factor, but it shouldn't be a free pass to brush off the other party's chagrin.
*Hey look my white male privilege is acting up! I just unintentionally white/mansplained decorum to non-white/non-cisgendered male readers. Now I'm apologizing. I'm sorry. (And I didn't die, go figure.)
"But America has a PC problem."
Judging from this thread, I'd say we have a hyperbole problem.
This probably implies that "whether intended or not, it is still exactly the same", or at least, this is my comprehension.intent doesn't affect impact
The Obama Era saw the Modern Right pick up 1,000 State and Federal Legislative seats. It now possesses the Presidency, the House of Representatives, and a majority in the Senate (which is sufficient to bring legislation to the floor.) It also possesses nearly enough control over state legislatures and governorships to pass a Constitutional Amendment. The Modern Right's problems are all about how to prioritize the public trust placed in it / us.And I can sum up the problems facing the Modern Right right now.
The Klein's were fined a six-figure sum for not a baking a gay wedding cake. Florists and photographers have similarly been targeted for refusing to participate in the celebration of homosexual unions. The most recent controversy hitting my own feed is apparently there are house flippers in Waco Texas that attend a church that teaches about human sexuality what churches have thought for several thousand years and apparently they are wondering if that makes the couple anti-gay or something. Those are the major flashpoints in the US, which is admittedly a much better relative position than Sweden's rapist migrant problem and no-go zones.The issue with plainspeak is believing our society stopped developing in the 1950s, labeling racism as non-racism, sexism as non-sexism, denying any modicum of sympathy for anyone outside the Nuclear Family Industrial Complex, and espousing religious morality as the rule of law, all while running from the specter of the Tumblr-thumping genderqueer Hydra that wants to prey on your children and wives in Target bathrooms and force its peanut butter and jelly problems down Pat Robertson's gullet.
My generalizations are backed up by actual attempts to enact (or successfully enact) into law policies that ruin people's lives and finances. Your own attack is perfectly illustrative of the white-knighting (White-Generaling?) I referred to either. If you want to use "Ab"-normal people as a reference, the entire thrust of my post was that every lever of institutional power IS focusing on those concerns while ignoring the plight of people who just want to have a job and go to work in the morning without stepping on political landmines.But hey your generalizations are just as good as mine.
See first response. Normal people have been tearing down the PC power hierarchy systematically over the last eight years, it's only with the loss of the presidential election that the left is finally coming to grips with this issue. Don't shoot the messenger.Funny that you spent an entire post tearing down the PC power hierarchy only to put up your own version of "normal people" on a marble pedestal (in the Trump Tower marble lobby, presumably).
"Ab"-normal people don't have "real" problems. Reverse political correctness at its finest.
i mean, the thing with ignoring micro-aggressions is that they can often become, well, regular aggressions. they normalize actions that disrespect groups of people and ultimately turn into more dangerous cases of racism.Maybe it's because there are so many groups in Hawaii, all so different, and all cannot escape the heightened awareness of the value of this mutual cultural respect, that helps people to learn to hold their tongue, and let "micro-aggressions" slide as needed.
You mean fined for refusing service to a customer unlawfully. When you frame it with religious bias, sure, I could see how the bakers are the victim (curse the homosexual cake agenda!), but if you frame it within the law, well, we know how things turned out.The Klein's were fined a six-figure sum for not a baking a gay wedding cake. Florists and photographers have similarly been targeted for refusing to participate in the celebration of homosexual unions. The most recent controversy hitting my own feed is apparently there are house flippers in Waco Texas that attend a church that teaches about human sexuality what churches have thought for several thousand years and apparently they are wondering if that makes the couple anti-gay or something. Those are the major flashpoints in the US, which is admittedly a much better relative position than Sweden's rapist migrant problem and no-go zones.
Half of my post was hyperbolic (hence my self-deprecating line at the end). I'm sorry if it was perceived as an attack but I wasn't even rattling my saber.My generalizations are backed up by actual attempts to enact (or successfully enact) into law policies that ruin people's lives and finances. Your own attack is perfectly illustrative of the white-knighting (White-Generaling?) I referred to either. If you want to use "Ab"-normal people as a reference, the entire thrust of my post was that every lever of institutional power IS focusing on those concerns while ignoring the plight of people who just want to have a job and go to work in the morning without stepping on political landmines.
Again, what do you mean by "normal people"? Please elaborate.See first response. Normal people have been tearing down the PC power hierarchy systematically over the last eight years, it's only with the loss of the presidential election that the left is finally coming to grips with this issue. Don't shoot the messenger.
But they often don't-- not when the main culture is one of acceptance, respecting cultural diversity, and community building. As people are respected, their families benefit from that respect, their families inter-marry cross racial lines (unavoidable when this is a strong social norm), when they are forced to work with people of all races, they generally are culturally forced/persuaded to change their minds regarding any genuine race hate they may be carrying.i mean, the thing with ignoring micro-aggressions is that they can often become, well, regular aggressions. they normalize actions that disrespect groups of people and ultimately turn into more dangerous cases of racism.
I accidentally posted the thread literally as I was typing in the title-- and I forgot what I was going to make the full title. lolzOk this is somewhat off topic but it's really bugging me.
What goes after "and" in the title? So confused.
Please fill in the blank with any word other than "white."the reason we haven't dealt with racism is that ____ people have a vested interest perpetuating it. reifying stereotypes / beliefs is not okay and we should actively work to foster an inclusive world.
is it really hard to stop being a dick?
The Klein's were fined a six-figure sum for not a baking a gay wedding cake.
Let's ask a different question: Do you believe $135,000 is an appropriate fine for a business with as low a profit margin as a bakery? Incidentally, the guy who did it (Brad Avakian) ran for office in Oregon and went down in flames. One rogue with a political agenda is not an arbiter of what is ethical under the law, even if he has the power to ruin people's lives with abuses of it.You mean fined for refusing service to a customer unlawfully. When you frame it with religious bias, sure, I could see how the bakers are the victim (curse the homosexual cake agenda!), but if you frame it within the law, well, we know how things turned out.
For background, there have been innumerable articles written about "The New Democratic Majority / The New Democratic Coalition" that was forged by the Obama candidacy and presidency - chiefly minorities, Millenials, unmarried women, and secular whites. Here's a recent one from TheFederalist. The policy priorities of Institutional Power (academia, government, media) have been on catering to the hobby horses of those niche groups, believing in the aggregate they had more political strength than traditional working class votes.Half of my post was hyperbolic (hence my self-deprecating line at the end). I'm sorry if it was perceived as an attack but I wasn't even rattling my saber.
Can you be more specific about the "plight of people who ... landmines"? Are we talking about the casual racist or David Duke's cadre of white sheet aficionados?
As far as political representation, it's the general electorates of most of the 50 states. I frame them as normal and I guess Smogon's community as abnormal because in the grand scheme of things, this community IS abnormal. It lies well outside the mean of general political views within the United States for the purposes of this discussion, part of which stems from its international nature and part of which stems from its general age cohort. When I use "normal" (vs "abnormal") I'm not talking about specific minorities or subgroups but of the general US voting age population vs the voting issues that animate Smogon's userbase.Again, what do you mean by "normal people"? Please elaborate.
you can't take that without nuance though, there are plenty of things people do in the name of their religious beliefs that actively harm so many people. by this logic, religious beliefs put you above the law and allow your religious beliefs to infringe on others' rights.The First Amendment inherently protects framing things with a religious bias. It is why you can't compel Mormons to transfuse blood or even force avowed atheists to serve in armed combat during a draft because they have entirely non-religious moral and ethical values. Demanding a couple compel their labor commemorating an act they believe is sure to send to hell not only themselves but also the party they are catering to is as sure a violation of that principle as any.