Well this is interesting. Jonathan Chait, uberliberal, writes an article for New York Magazine decrying political correctness:
Go here to read the rest. This is hilarious. So long as political correctness was a club to wield against conservatives it was great. Now the crazed left is increasingly using it against the left and they do not like it at all. Political correctness, like most forms of language policing, is all about winning debates not through persuasion and argument but by getting other people to shut up. Combine this with identity politics and you have a recipe for ongoing monologues of the deaf. This is ominous in a political culture reliant upon peaceful debate. As George Washington noted long ago, “If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” That is precisely what the advocates of political correctness seek to do against their adversaries, and all in the name of tolerance.
Q: What is public about NPR? It seems to be a sounding board for DNC. Are govt. funds commingled with the donations to support and propagate leftist views? If our tax dollars do support NPR then views contrary to the left should have equal air time.
You should see what John C Wright wrote.
Virtually all media discourse is liberal no matter the outlet. I now avoid all of it because it is so dull and insipid resulting from the base of lies on which it is based. The only media outlets I frequent are from an orthodox Catholic point of view. I just have no interest in engaging. My liberal friends miss fighting with me but I’ve passed through that phase thanks to the Holy Spirit. You really have to have a fourth grade mind to partake of mainstream media and find it satisfying at all, or the deluded mind of a liberal. Gotcha, name calling, made up “isms” and “ists” is all they have.
Back in November there was a bit of a kerfluffle where they found out one of their loudest voices was…well, just being a nasty bully against people who weren’t really doing bad-think. People who were on their own side. What the heck they expected out of someone called “Required Hate,” I have no idea. (Link is to Mrs. Hoyt’s reaction to some loon trying to shift the blame on to an acceptable target. Herself.)
Regulating discourse by defining opposing views as bigoted and illegitimate …
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” Political correctness, like most forms of language policing, is all about winning debates not through persuasion and argument but by getting other people to shut up. ”
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The loudest, or most influential power, ‘wins’. It seems that ‘religious correctness’ can now be a phrase for some current discourse. This also seems to be a connection to writings about the Church becoming small and to Someone wondering whether there will be found any faith found on earth.