How did an elite, repressive minority policing speech and culture through political correctness come to browbeat the American democratic majority?
The overwhelming majority of Americans oppose political correctness. A recent survey of 8,000 Americans reveals that people of all ages, races, and educational levels oppose it by lopsided margins. None of the demographic categories presumed to be aligned with it, or to fall within its protective embrace, actually support it. Three out of 4 black people, 2 out of 3 people with postgraduate degrees, and 78 percent of people under the age of 24 all regard political correctness as a problem. While 79 percent of white people oppose political correctness, it is Asians (82 percent), Hispanics (87 percent), and American Indians (88 percent) who are most likely to be resistant to it.
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The study demonstrates that the opponents of political correctness are not primarily the followers of Donald Trump. Nor are they in any significant sense the alt-right, a ragbag of at most a few thousand malcontents in a country of 350 million, who have been falsely magnified into a ludicrous simulacrum of a real social force. They are not predominantly the remnants of a dying white America brainwashed by Fox News. They are not a pitiable collection of angry white males—ruddy, be-Dockered, pale, stale, males left behind by the times—clinging to their dwindling privileges in an ever more vibrant and diverse America.
PC’s opponents are a portrait of rainbow-coalition America itself—people of all ages and all colors protective of their liberties, who sense instinctively who is really at the core of the politically correct movement and oppose the ideas and motives that animate it. This diverse America is of course fundamentally at odds with the Fox News crowd and the Trumpists. But they have no more love for their would-be saviors among the politically correct, who rule through fear inspired by legalistic threats and social media mobs.
The solution is obvious: we should ban all speech rights for the SJWs, so they can no longer spew their anti-racist venom.
All kidding aside, truer words have n'er been spoke:
It is also a measure of how successfully the toxic rhetoric of warring elite cliques has gaslighted you into submitting to a narrative that is brazenly false.
I raised this point many times in many ways in arguments with owenshooter, notyou2, DDS, symmetry, etc. However, I was never quite able to articulate it so eloquently.
Real racism and oppression happens every single day, but people dance to the beat of the drum that is all about words, while ignoring the real problems.
Re: The DoomYoshi Musings thread
Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2018 8:07 am
by DoomYoshi
Something really weird is going on in Europe and it has been going on for a while but I only just noticed.
The far right has become anti-free trade and against austerity measures. Say what?
DoomYoshi wrote:Something really weird is going on in Europe and it has been going on for a while but I only just noticed.
The far right has become anti-free trade and against austerity measures. Say what?
Why are the Germans called Christian Democrats? I thought religion was dead over there
Re: The DoomYoshi Musings thread
Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2018 6:38 am
by DoomYoshi
HitRed wrote:
DoomYoshi wrote:Something really weird is going on in Europe and it has been going on for a while but I only just noticed.
The far right has become anti-free trade and against austerity measures. Say what?
Why are the Germans called Christian Democrats? I thought religion was dead over there
Germany remains a bastion of Christianity in a sea of Catholicism. Germans actually pay for their tithes right through their government taxes, so German stats on Christianity are the best stats. You get less Christian nominalism there, and the churches are generally better funded.
I think this is the best video ever posted on YouTube. I'm addicted to watching it, but more especially to the comments section. There's a good lesson here about mitochondrial DNA, but I don't feel like providing it today.
For pottage and puddings, custards and pies, Our pumpkins and parsnips are common supplies. We have pumpkins at morning and pumpkins at noon; If it were not for pumpkins, we should be undoon.
Re: The DoomYoshi Musings thread
Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2018 10:36 am
by DoomYoshi
DoomYoshi wrote:Next year ends the dark ages in US&A. 20 years after the famous law case Disney v. everything holy, good and right in which Disney won a landslide victory, the public domain became frozen in the US (and by consequence, in Canada). Next year it is unfrozen, and films from 1923 are entering the public domain. It would have been better to have it at 74 years since this is a major dick-move. For example the local film club is doing (actually it already happened) a 75-years anniversary festival for Safety Last, a famous Harold Lloyd movie (mostly famous because of just one scene where he's dangling from the clock). They brought in a live orchestra to play alongside the silent movie. They had to pay distribution rights for that, whereas if they would have waited 12 months and had a 76-year anniversary party it would have been free, just need to pay the orchestra. I'd rather money go to living, active artists than corporations.
DoomYoshi wrote:https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/religion/2018/12/how-pelagius-s-philosophy-free-will-shaped-european-culture This is something that will you think, and also includes education. Usually those are two opposite terms.
God is complex and beyond our understanding. Faith, works, grace, redemption are all in the mix. Finding out the British and Italians disagreed before the invention of Football, priceless.
Re: The DoomYoshi Musings thread
Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2019 5:37 am
by DoomYoshi
mrswdk posted something a while back about how millenials have the least sex of any recent generation, this somewhat ties into that:
In 2014, the Journal of Advertising Research published a study documenting an odd decline in references to love throughout popular music. The word had fallen below phrases such as “good time” and epithets such as the N-word on the list of most commonly sung terms in the chart topping hits of the 2000s.
