May?
PC is right out of the Nazi and Marxist playbook. It was NEVER about "freedom." Period.
It is a lie - straight from the Father of Lies.
Very enlightening. These people are nuts. They are so bad that the protesters from the 60's can't deal with or understand them.
I knew they were nuts but they are even nuttier than I thought. God help us if these people get their way.
The protesters from the 60's laid the ground work for today's snowflakes, and seem to be encouraging them even if they don't understand them.
Ping
It is thought control through language control, a technique that the Left has held dear as a religion and that is seldom questioned despite a clear historical record of failure. It is very common for language totalitarians to ascribe resistance to their power as fascistic; it is, on the contrary, anything but. Rebellion against that sort of suppression is not the hallmark of the extreme Right, but a perfectly natural reaction among free men and women of every political stripe. The Soviets could not kill samizdat in three quarters of a century of militant and violent effort.
It is this that has led many social commentators of the Left to term that resistance to their suppression as "Alt-Right", equating that with the usual progressive shibboleths of racism, sexism, homophobia, etc, etc ad nauseum. In fact, it is nothing of the sort. It is a perfectly natural reaction against "You can't say X" to go ahead and say it anyway, even if it happens to be otherwise reprehensible, a trap the Left sets repeatedly but has, by now, lost its force entirely. The issue isn't X at all, but the right to say it. And the issue isn't triggering and safe spaces at all, it's the ability to use them to gain political power sufficient to suppress one's chosen enemies. That's all PC is about and it's all it was ever about.
boy was this guy ever clueless
PC IS DEAD TO ME
Thank You Donald Trump!
who considers it divisive?
its dead on accurate.
May?
PC is right out of the Nazi and Marxist playbook. It was NEVER about "freedom." Period.
It is a lie - straight from the Father of Lies.
If these people had their way, we would all be in reeducation camps.
I’m not boarding that bus, and I doubt most FReepers would, either.
Beyond that, see the Solzhenitsyn quote towards the top of my FR profile page.
Since 1965 everything has gone off the rails! What used to be up is now down; black is white. Laws apply only to the common man but not to politicians. Illegal aliens are not lawbreakers but undocumented persons. A husband can now be female; wife can be male. Dope usage is common and promoted by the Hollywood elite. Governments are participating in the promotion of marijuana usage purely to collect the taxes. The numbers racket used to be illegal now it is sponsored and promoted by the government. Free speech for a white citizen is different than it is for a black citizen. Just to mention a few things that are off the rails, I could continue. It is NOT the same America that I grew up in.
"Two years ago, Copeland asked a young student who was editing a video during rehearsals for a stage production if she would manage to finish editing the footage by the end of the week. He didn't get the immediate response and things were hectic. "Yes or no?" he called out in his exalted way. "Yes or no?""
On the "Snowflake" Oberlin Campus, that led to a "Title IX investigation for sexual misconduct." against the professor.
What does that stupid snowflake think will happen IF she gets a job in the real world -- and her boss asks for a forecast on completion of her work -- and she "retreats into her safe space", and refuses to answer?
Another "Title IX investigation for sexual misconduct."?
No! She will find her tender little lezzie snowflake @$$ out on the street, before her yoga pants can catch up with her butt!
If I were a parent, paying for some expensive, "prestigious" university to prepare my offspring for the real world --and, found stuff like this going on, I would not only yank my child out of that hellhole, but would have my attorney demand a full refund of any tuition I had paid.
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Dismay at the the whole "Precious SJW Snowflake" abomination prompted me to create this, several months ago:
A whole lot of "Precious Little SJW Snowflakes" are going to have stunning awakenings -- the first time they seek (and, possibly, get) their first job in the real world -- where money is earned...
How much of this is rooted in feminism? Do these responses to real world experiences sound like hysteria? Check out this website tracing the history of the term, indicating that it is Greek for “uterus”: http://academic.mu.edu/meissnerd/hysteria.html
What is interesting is that being a woman, I can easily attest to the fact that sometimes, my emotions get away with me. But I recognize it and do not act on those overwrought emotions.
A great deal of what we are seeing in the deterioration of modern society looks to me like women’s emotional tendencies are being given equal footing with or taking precedence over actual rational thought.
Add to this the insistence of feminists that the difference between the sexes is merely a “social construct”, they actually believe that men respond to circumstances the same way that they do but just won’t admit it. You see, society has conditioned them to “suppress” their emotions and they need to find and express their “feminine” side.
What we have is the complete “infantilization” of society. Now, “infantilization” is a term used by feminists to describe what women think sexists do to them when they don’t take their hysterics seriously, i.e., treating them like children. But they are the ones infantilizing everyone by insisting that no one has the ability to deal with setbacks, criticism or anything short of unicorns and rainbows.
How can I take someone seriously when they engage in temper tantrums when they don’t get their way? In computer programming, we call this an infinite loop. It runs endlessly and will eventually fry your computer. Let’s not let this happen to our civilization.
All I can say is, God Bless Donald Trump! This insanity, or should I say hysteria, must end.
utter bs.
political correctness was devised by the nazis as a political tool meant to control those its aimed at.
it was NEVER meant to create more freedom... but more govt control
When my drilling rig caught on fire in Nigeria I needed a safe space. Did not have one.
When my drilling rig sank in a storm in Venezuela I needed a safe space. Did not have one.
When my rig almost capsized in the North Sea I needed a safe space. Did not have one.
When I was inadvertently caught up in a communist riot in Tehran in 1960 I needed a safe space. I found one on the floor of a taxi cab. The driver probably saved my life. I was only 13 years old. I was very scared.
When my friend Charles McMahan was killed in Vietnam he needed a safe space. He did not have one. He died.
These putrid little sissified pansies on the Universities need to grow up. Life will kick you in the ass if you do not. I will probably be the one kicking them in the ass.