Dominus wrote:Beauty contests were always considered leery, weren't they? And about political correctness, if whatever is the latest victim of […]
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Beauty contests were always considered leery, weren't they? And about political correctness, if whatever is the latest victim of pc means something badly treated before is now treated better, I'm all for it...
People protesting pc are often those that want to continue treating people bad or to see people treated bad by others.
The world is changing and I welcome this change!
Edit: I imagine old farts complaining about pc a while back: "First they took the slaves away and now I can't even hit my woman when she mouths off. What next? Next they'll probably not allow me to have sex with her whenever I want to. Damn those social justice warriors!"
Saying "People protesting pc are often those that want to continue treating people bad or to see people treated bad by others." is appalling and bigotted, and is the same vile attitude that you yourself are speaking out against. When enough people say the same thing, then you should consider that they might be right, and that there might be good reason for what they say. Yes, they might be totally wrong (factually or morally), but they might just be right and the reason you don't agree is because you're not aware of the facts. No doubt some vile people do hate PC, but that doesn't mean that other complains about it are wrong or untrue.
And whilst it's true that political correctness started off with (very very) good reason and intentions, it is nonetheless true that PC-based decisions can and have resulted in some very stupid and harmful results, for example, the tens of thousands of young British girls sexually abused and groomed by Muslim men in Britain, who, when they complained to the authorities were ignored and sent away by the very people who are supposed to help them, because the police and the (so called) justice department didn't want to offend Islam - many of the victims were deliberately wrongly labelled as prostitutes by the authorities so that they (the victims) would have even less belive-ability if their cases went to court. That, by the way, is all documented fact, and has been the subject of a lot of media investigation and reporting, yet not one person in the police or the justice department has been jailed for their part in trying to cover it all up.
Also in England, if you fly an English flag then you can be called a racist, and even be told to take it down. But if you come from any other country, then you can fly your flag in any part of England you like (which I agree with, but I am diametrically opposed to the (mostly white middle class) hypocrites who say that the English flag should never be shown (usually because "It symbolises war and bloodshed and persecution" (which it might do, but if so then so does every country's flag, every country has indulged in war, and attempts at conquest, and has hurt it's own and other countries' people, even though it's not PC to point this out, PC being far more inportant than the truth in the modern world).
And then there's Dianne Abbot, a politician who is a *revolting*, hypocritical racist. But she's black, so everyone in power pretends not to notice her vile attitude, because political correctness. She says things like "White people love playing ‘divide & rule’. We [blacks] should not play their game" (yes, that's a copy and paste of one of her tweets, but I added the '[blacks]' for clarity), and Parliment just looks the other way. If a white person said that, then they'd be kicked out (unless they were wealthy enough to buy their way clear, we are talking politicians after all, but even then they'd have to stay in the background for a while) but Abbott is in a minority, so she's allowed to spew racist bile without fear of consequence. The black people I've met who've mentioned her seem to detest her (since they're not racist bigots, most people are decent enough), as you'd expect, but no one in power will silence her in case they themselves are seen to be trying to censor a black woman.
I could go on, trust me (or you can just google for more examples), but PC is responsible for some very bad things, and currently can seem insane at times. It is true that PC has done *much* good, far more good than harm (I was born in 1970, and so I can remember when non-white or non-British or non-heterosexual or non-male (women!) people really did have to suffer things that wouldn't be allowed now), and the world is overall a much better place for PC, but that doesn't (and shouldn't) blind me to the fact that some very stupid or harmful decisions and acts are caused (partly or totally) by PC considerations that manage to utterly ignore either common sense or the difference between right and wrong. And in Britain at the moment, free speech is fighting a losing war with the (few but insistent) people who prefer to use PC to silent factual debates about anything that they don't want discussed or changed.