Posted on 02/25/2015 10:21:20 AM PST by NRx
Agree wholeheartedly, although the analogies are more difficult. An ideological purity test is going to be messy... but it's been tried before. See party "loyalty oaths" in Germany and Russia and China.
I have enough sympathy to want those terrorists executed painlessly, along with those who trained them and those who funded them. As for their supporters, I have enough sympathy to want them shipped to a country more in keeping with their values. Perhaps ISIS wants them as guests for the next barbecue.
Oh, I'm not suggesting any such thing. The only way to combat bad ideas is with good ideas. "Political Correctness" and "Non Judgementalism" are bad ideas that are intended to make it more difficult for good ideas to propagate.
What I'm saying - and not very well - is that the ecological system of ideas, and the mechanisms that have been developed by civilization for finding the truth, defending the truth, and purging anti-truths (superstitions, lies, propaganda, etc.) are under attack.
Political correctness/nonjudgementalism is an attack on the basic act of generalization. "Prejudice" is simply a word that is applied to a type of generalization that one group or another doesn't like. P-C is an attack on all generalization, which makes it an attack on one of the basic modalities of human intellectual activity in the search of knowledge and insight, and the survival value those things confer.
I take it “British Muslims” aren’t really Brits. They’re just Muzzies that infest Great Britain.
It is utterly shameful that formerly Great Britain has allowed a Muslim community to exist and grow.
This is a very important observation about PC. It's aimed at total control of deductive reasoning about your environment, particularly the political environment as its presented.
Your comment on prejudice is a bit less profound, in the sense that while prejudice can prevent deductive thought on a particular aspect of our surroundings (e.g., "Staticstically, blacks have lower IQs and are more prone to violent crime than other races"), it can also work in the other direction. That is, one might be deliberately blind to facts out there. So one can speak of prejudice being either prescriptive or descriptive. Descriptive is OK, Prescriptive is PC.
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