That’s how I see it. And frankly I don’t care if your different. Why should I? Doesn’t affect me one bit.
Bigoty is an odd thing. I would go so far as calling it a disease. And as we have seen you can ‘catch’ it.
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Did y’all see this thread I posted nine years ago? Here are the title and my OP there:
If you whine about political correctness, you’r a bigot
Seriously. Maybe I’ve just missed it, but I don’t think so. Every freaking time I hear someone bitching about “political correctness” it’s to make a bigoted comment or to bitch about the person they’re accusing of being “PC” or “Liberal” is being “too soft” on someone the accuser hates–and that hatred based usually on prejudice.
So, let me lay it out for you bigoted jackasses:
Treating Blacks just like you treat Whites isn’t PC: it’s the right thing to do.
Treating Muslims like you treat any other people isn’t PC: it’s the right thing to do.
Treating immigrants like you treat any other people is’t PC: it’s the right thing to do.
Treating all people like people isn’t PC: it’s the right thing to do.So, if you’re ready to whine more–in real life or on a message board–about someone being PC, shut the fuck up! More likely than not, you’ve already shown yourself to be a jackass; no need to add more proof.
Worse was that time a woman who wrote a whole book largely about the horrors of woke but couldn’t define it in an interview.
I remember that one. It’s similar in some regards to the people who are against the teaching of “CRT” to elementary school kids but don’t have any idea what CRT is (Critical Race Theory) or where it is actually offered as a course (AIUI, in law schools).
They do know what “Critical Race Theory” is. It’s anything that acknowledges the existence of racism, now or at any point in history.
Specifically any kind of discussion/ lesson that casts a negative light on anything shitty that European colonizers did, or are continuing to do towards non European people. This also applies towards animals and the environment too.
And being told/ made to be extra sensitive and deferential towards other people that have historically been oppressed by their ancestors.
They don’t want their children to come home and have uncomfortable conversations that make their mom and dad feel ashamed of themselves and their families history. or contradict their own beliefs of what happened in the past.
Part of learning about history is acknowledging that your parents, grandparents or their parents and grandparents, and others like them were ass holes that perpetrated a lot suffering on others.
It is awkward to come to terms with that fact but, it needs to be done.
That might be giving some MAGAs too much credit. This is anecdotal, but I watched a video of a guy being interviewed and he had no idea what CRT was, but he sure as hell didn’t want it taught to the kids. It was ruining America!
The interviewer tried to get the guy to give any sort of definition of CRT but he couldn’t. Seemed to me to be a case of a guy parroting right-wing talking points uncritically and without even understanding them. His favorite news sources said it was bad and that’s all he needed to form an opinion.
Let’s also not forget that the guy who managed to get CRT into the popular vernacular admitted on TV that he knew it wasn’t something being taught in schools but it would work well as a boogieman to rally people against. (Obviously paraphrasing)
I won’t cite it here, as it’s a hijack into old ground, but I’m mentioning it because the general public not having a good idea of what it is, was a lot of the point of invoking it in the first place.
Parrot an opinion. There’s no forming of opinion in their minds.
They have an opinion of their own. Someone told them it’s bad, someone told them the liberals want it, someone told them the democrats are coming for them. That’s enough to form an opinion.
But, but, what about “bleein’ heart liberals”? They’re an aberration too, yaknow!
No kidding. Maurice’s playwriting, however…
But Mo Green was kidnapped by the Leutonian Liberation Army, and they changed his name.
The irony is that, if the modern white people didn’t identify with the slavers and traitors, they wouldn’t feel bad about hearing about history. It’s white identity that’s the problem, not the history lessons.
Is it really about them personally feeling bad?
I always thought it was, like, a step removed: that, say, they’re contemplating a time when talk of reparations might be the order of the day — at which point slavers are going to get mentioned, and various people will get associated with ‘em — and, when that time comes, they don’t want someone else identifying them with folks who should’ve coughed up money then, in an effort to have modern white people cough up money now, or some such.
To defer to Bob Dylan;
Yes, it’s really about them feeling bad, or at least thinking they are being told they are bad for being the descendants of a slave-owning society and a Jim Crow society.
It’s about pointing out that the Founding Fathers had a lot of great talk about equality and liberty but owned slaves, and how that makes it difficult to celebrate America’s founding because it wasn’t universally good.
“Stop telling me that, I don’t want to hear that. Stop bringing up the Native Americans whenever Columbus is mentioned.”
“Stop complaining that the South was fighting for slavery, they just wanted local control, and they were proud Americans who fought for their beliefs. We can honor them for that without actually acknowledging what those beliefs were.”
“Stop making my children think it’s bad to be white.”
“It’s all about me” is the sentiment behind a large percentage of terrible stuff.
I believe the exact tune is something like “I didn’t do those things, so why should I feel guilty?”
To which the obvious reply is, “Do you feel guilty? If not, what is the problem?”