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Americans Strongly Dislike PC Culture
The Atlantic ^ | 10/10/18 | Yascha Mounk

Posted on 07/06/2019 5:59:01 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck

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To: ek_hornbeck

“Team Resentment is manned—pun very much intended—by people who are predominantly old and almost exclusively white.”

Blatant bias. The “Woke” gang burns with Resentment of what the old white men have achieved; they attribute their own failures to “unfairness” wherein the old white men rigged the system to reward ability and effort. The notion that “Progressives” are high income, highly “educated” (I guess the author conflates “educated” with university attendance), etc., conflicts with most examples I have ever seen. Occupy and Antifa are lowlife trash, not wealthy educated people.


21 posted on 07/06/2019 6:27:43 AM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: ek_hornbeck
main concerns of progressive activists is climate change, inequality, and poverty

These are pretexts for leftard leaders to steal and leftard masses to beg. Anyway to gain the unearned, undeserved, and something for nothing is the leftard con job.

22 posted on 07/06/2019 6:29:11 AM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: ek_hornbeck

PC, by definition means intellectually dishonest.


23 posted on 07/06/2019 6:32:19 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets ( Schumer delenda est.)
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To: Chewbarkah

I keep seeing this word “woke”...WTH does that mean anyway???

Is it used instead of “awake, awakened, waking up”????

It doesn’t make any sense the way I’ve seen it used....


24 posted on 07/06/2019 6:38:07 AM PDT by JBW1949
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To: cgbg

If you don’t discuss politics at all—and just listen to what those around you are saying—you will find that almost no-one else pays any attention to it.

That is easy to forget—most people are busy just living their lives and just don’t care about public policy stuff unless it is in their face and affects them personally and directly.

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So true. I get along with my neighbors who I know are mostly libs. A bit more live and let live and a bit less social media or MSM propagandizing divisions makes for a better life.


25 posted on 07/06/2019 6:41:10 AM PDT by Flick Lives (MSM, the Enemy of the People since 1898)
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To: JBW1949
"Woke is a slang term that is easing into the mainstream from some varieties of a dialect called African American Vernacular English (sometimes called AAVE)." "In AAVE, awake is often rendered as woke, as in, “I was sleeping, but now I’m woke.”
Merriam Webster..
26 posted on 07/06/2019 6:45:02 AM PDT by unread (Joe McCarthy was right.......)
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To: Chewbarkah

I am not wasting my time reading an article that starts this way. The worst thing about PC culture is the 60% of the country that has been brainwashed and hypnotized to believe that 100% of the country are social justice warriors and make their decisions to appease them.


27 posted on 07/06/2019 6:47:56 AM PDT by Treeless Branch
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To: gaijin
Progressive activists are the only group that strongly backs political correctness: Only 30 percent see it as a problem... progressive activists are much more likely to be rich, highly educated—and white. They are nearly twice as likely as the average to make more than $100,000 a year. They are nearly three times as likely to have a postgraduate degree. And while 12 percent of the overall sample in the study is African American, only 3 percent of progressive activists are.

In other words PC is a profitable industry for an overeducated elite who somehow make a living telling everyone else what to think.

It's a union.

28 posted on 07/06/2019 6:50:19 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: cgbg
I think you are totality mistaken about politics in America in 2019. America is hyper politicized. We live in fascist PC cultural milieu and a time of no freedom speech for anyone not "woke" i.e. leftist.

I don't discuss politics in public with anyone unless I know them very well because the risk/reward analysis always falls into too much risk and no reward.

We discuss politics in the voting booth.

29 posted on 07/06/2019 6:52:08 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: gaijin

They have silenced the right and mistake that for political/cultural victory. I “I don’t know anyone that voted for Trump” syndrome.


30 posted on 07/06/2019 6:53:27 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: unread

Well, I’m just an old Tennessee hillbilly and I do have a mountain accent...But I do know how to say “awake”....


31 posted on 07/06/2019 6:57:37 AM PDT by JBW1949
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To: unread

Yet if a business or almost any public figure goes against a PC dictate they will be destroyed. Such is the power of the MSM/rat alliance.


32 posted on 07/06/2019 6:58:33 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: LS

Millennials today can’t safely put anything on social media because in future decades it could sink them. I don’t care how woke they are. In 30 years, it will all be different and even a dogs name might be twisted into an offense. Stick to liking and emojis or suffer the consequences.But no social media footprint is really best.


33 posted on 07/06/2019 7:01:30 AM PDT by cnsmom (G)
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To: JBW1949
"Well, I’m just an old Tennessee hillbilly and I do have a mountain accent...But I do know how to say “awake”."

Ya, dats cause you be white... Beins a cracker n all...

34 posted on 07/06/2019 7:03:48 AM PDT by unread (Joe McCarthy was right.......)
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To: unread

LOL...Well, yeah.....


35 posted on 07/06/2019 7:06:26 AM PDT by JBW1949
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To: ek_hornbeck
The term "politically correct" is a Marxist-Leninist term, and, as such, whether it is used in the affirmative or the negative it concedes AUTHORITY to the originator.

This is why "conservatism" is losing this fight despite having many more votes. As any Marxist-Leninist knows, it does not matter who votes, it matters who counts the votes.

When someone attacks you for being politically incorrect, they are asserting the right to rule you based on a class analysis. Modern M-L-ism having expanded the class system, there will be multiple claimants to rule over you based on penis status, skin pigment, preferred orifice, and many things besides workers and bosses, but the principle remains the same.

And this is the point: When someone asserts the right to rule over you and backs it up with masks, clubs, and chemical warfare, YOU ARE NO LONGER ENGAGED IN A POLITICAL ARGUMENT.

The rules in this situation have not changed. Their right to rule over you, unless successfully disputed in kind, will prevail.

When the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) was using street fighters to come to power in 1925-1933, it did not matter how many German voters disagreed with them. The communist street fighters were never popular.

But they had to be outfought in the streets, and eventually isolated from society, which the Weimar government never was able to do.

Calling Antifa "brownshirts" is therefore particularly ironic. Brownshirts are the only thing most people know about German politics in the period 1925-1933, and that, I presume, is because the descendants of the Red Fighting Front are the ones doing the teaching.

The Red Fighting Front ended at Dachau and Buchenwald. Pray it does not come to that. But do not be deceived that Antifa together with their political wing the Uniparty are competing for votes - they mean to limit opinions and programs to their options only, and judging by their success in limiting President Trump to words as opposed to action, they are winning.

36 posted on 07/06/2019 7:11:24 AM PDT by Jim Noble (1)
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To: ek_hornbeck

If the findings discussed in this article are even remotely accurate, President Trump wins re-election in a landslide.

Why? Because the “woke” have taken over the Democrat primary process and will settle for nothing less than a full-blown socialist candidate.

Then, as CNN has already learned, they too will learn that the audience (and votes) for their “woke” message started small and is becoming even smaller as more and more people wake up to its implications.


37 posted on 07/06/2019 7:11:51 AM PDT by Norseman (Defund the Left....completely!)
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To: lurk
PC started out benign

PC started with Lenin's brilliant What is to Be Done and, as the blood-soaked history of the twentieth century showed, it was never benign.

38 posted on 07/06/2019 7:14:31 AM PDT by Jim Noble (1)
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To: Flick Lives
I get along with my neighbors who I know are mostly libs

The Tutsi got along well with their Hutu neighbors, and did the Serbs with the Bosniaks, until one day...

I hope you have an escape plan that can be executed at the drop of a hat.

39 posted on 07/06/2019 7:17:47 AM PDT by Jim Noble (1)
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To: lurk

Fat people pack heat, just like the twiggies.


40 posted on 07/06/2019 7:21:02 AM PDT by GingisK
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