11-09-2016, 09:41 AM
(11-09-2016, 05:12 AM)taramarie Wrote:(11-09-2016, 05:03 AM)Galen Wrote:Ah so it is abused over there. I got a taste of it when a lady said I was a racist or racist enabler when i was simply doing what i always do....listen to both sides and measure. She did not even know me and immediately called me that. Not even allowed to listen to both sides and that is why I declare America tribal. This is why I have warned Democrats that doing that shit only hurts them. They caused this. I hope they will listen to me now. Probably not. This is why he was not hurt by talking in a way that was not pc. In fact it helped him. No one listens.(11-09-2016, 04:57 AM)taramarie Wrote:(11-09-2016, 04:49 AM)Galen Wrote: Whenever you are investigating something it is best to divorce yourself from your feelings. Remember that you are trying to understand the current situation and so your feelings about it are irrelevant. The more like a dispassionate observer you become the better you will able to understand. Like many Xers, I compartmentalize in a way that you can't imagine and its one of the reasons I am still alive after all of these years. Ask Dannilyn, if you don't believe me, because I am pretty sure she has been doing the same thing for almost as long as I have.
It is only when you understand and need to decide on a course of action does your understanding of ethics and your feelings become relevant.
For an ISFJ that is very hard to do. I am very high sensory person but that is good advice. You cannot see with a clear head otherwise. But it does worry me as to why the anti PC backlash began. I worry for America's future and how it will influence the rest of us. Oh btw scratch my earlier post to classic xer. You are a libertarian. Not republican. Sorry it is late here and I am very unwell at the moment.
Political Correctness is just a way to shut people up. Do yourself a favor and read 1984. You will understand.
Over here, the term "political correctness" implies the abuse. I can give some examples that I saw over and over.
1. Any policy criticism of Obama was greeted with accusations of racism. And it was becoming obvious that a President Clinton would mean any policy criticism of Clinton would be greeted with accusations of sexism. The scary part is that much of the left here actually believes that: they think they were being patriotic when criticizing Bush, but they genuinely believed that the only reason anyone could disagree with Obama was racism.
2. The only government sanctioned racism still around in the U.S. is institutionalized discrimination against whites and Asians in the form of affirmative action. But if you criticized affirmative action, you'd be accused of racism. The idea that there could be racism against whites or Asians or any race other than blacks had been removed from the lexicon.