[EXTERNAL] Wolfe & Women

James Wynn · 30 Jan 2020, 19:25 · from 2020-January.txt.gz

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From: james.wynn at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2020 13:25:01 -0600
Subject: (urth) [EXTERNAL] Wolfe & Women
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Calling proponents of a position "politically correct" is itself a form of
ad hominem. But if it is going to be *defended* as a category, then...

In my experience, unironic "political correctness" gained a very bad
reputation quite early -- by the late 80s -- because the people advocating
for it demonstrated a very low bar for the definition of rudeness when
encountering ideas they disagreed with and a very permissive bar for the
punishment that should be meted out for perceived rudeness. They also
demonstrated marked blindness for rudeness perpetuated in the name of
"political correctness" (sometimes euphemized "the common good"). Nothing
about the culture of PC has changed since then, but what has changed is an
increased ability of some of its advocates to sequester themselves from the
critiques of it and the various subcultures it spawned (callout culture,
cancel culture, social credit scores).

Rather than engaging inaccurate statements with ad hominem (see above), I
think it is more effective to engage them with accurate speech untainted by
personal emotion.

~ James

On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 6:27 AM Norwood, Frederick Hudson <
NORWOODR at mail.etsu.edu> wrote:

> In my experience, people who complain about having to be ?politically
> correct? are people who want to say rude things and are really complaining
> about not being allowed to be rude.
>
> Rick
>
>
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