I am up to here with Political correctness!!

[Kirkland Laing]

Damn.

Either you write really fast (all of that between fights )... or the time between fights was longer than I thought.

In any case, and from what I could gather from speed reading your post (it's close to 1:30 am here, and past my bedtime)... I personally have never attached government or political parties to the PC culture that has taken over the country.

Yes I know. The liberals are the ones mostly into being politically correct. But I don't blame anyone other than the people themselves.

IMHO, there has been a gradual cultural shift over time. Probably due to faulty child rearing.

People's sensitivities are now on "ultra-touchy" mode. Regardless of whether is meant to be insulting or not... it IS... and must be removed or renamed to some bland version.

Sports teams... pancake brands... toy names... feminine products... everything's on the table.

It all responds to the well-known "pendulum theory", where the reactions are often multiple times worse than the original action.

Racism and sexism have been problem areas for years... so let's overreact to the point where EVERYTHING'S deemed racist or sexist. To hell with intent.

The problem for me is that a lot of it is nothing more than TOKEN actions. All fluff... no substance.

"Hey... we changed the Aunt Jemima name on the pancake syrup. Let's all go in a corner and pat each other on the back on a job well done. Meanwhile, we'll continue being the same old racist bastards behind the scenes."

I read an article some time ago where it was reported that even many Native Americans said they couldn't care less about the name of the Washington Redskins. Changing the name wasn't going to change anything in their lives or the struggles they are faced with on a daily basis. So it wasn't even the Native Americans pushing for the change. It was the PC Police. Why? So they could circle jerk themselves and feel all warm and mushy inside.

Anyone with more than two grams of gray matter between their ears should be more than capable of discerning between positive, constructive effort to minimize or prevent harmful and discriminatory actions toward minority groups... and superficial, fake-looking, token gestures that reek of hypocrisy.



Anyway... that's my two cents on the matter. Only reason I've written so much is that Subriel Matias won... and it'll be a while before I wind down and go to bed.

'Night, gentlemen.

https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Family/pr...ry?id=97350999

Ok so this is a healthy reversal of the absolutely absurd. Reediting aka censoring by the publisher and a group called 'Inclusive Minds' would have not only original text and passages reworded/removed but even the addition lines that were never written by the author. That right there is some dangerous shat. We're seeing some assbackwards thinking pointed at literature as of late, Government used as a hammer and it's become quite the moralist banner for a certain Presidential candidate named Desantis.

Man... these are children's books FFS. Most of them decades old.

Forget slippery slopes. We have slipped off the slope and are freefalling off the side of the cliff.

Not only is NOTHING out of bounds... but groups like you describe are out there roaming the cultural landscape... scouring children's toys, books, product brands, and just about everything one can think of.

There must be some big, fat weight-challenged bonuses being dangled out there for those who identify the next "danger" to be censored.

There has been a rush of stuff recently that has undergone name changes or image changes. Campaigners have been after the Redskins and the Indians to change their name for decades and it didn't happen but then all of a sudden all this stuff started happening. And it's directly due to the George Floyd protests, or at least what those protests revealed about American public opinion.

When they started I thought oh well, Trump is going to win the election easily now. I was waiting for a massive backlash from middle America to go with the inevitable conservative backlash. But it never came. Instead BLM at the time were polling about sixty percent approval. Republican Senators were rushing out in groups to make joint statements condemning racism, saying that there was indeed systemic racism, there needed to be reforms, signing up to bills to change the names of military bases and so on. Senators of both parties are a very reliable bellwether of American opinion. One thing all those fuckers have in common is they know how to read a poll. For GOP senators to come out en masse like that or at the very least to shut up and not take the other side meant there was a sea change in public opinion.

And all of these brands/publishers/businesses whether it's pancake syrup or the Redskins or Doctor Seuss are just trying to get ahead of things before changes in public opinion affect their sales. That's it with the brands and the publishers. It's entirely down to money. It doesn't matter that Native Americans couldn't care less about the Redskins name. It's what middle America thinks that matters to the Redskins owner and the NFL and middle America has a couple of years ago revealed that it has changed its opinion on the level of racism and discrimination in society. That's why we have the name changes. And it is all just token actions, not much else has really changed. You only get incremental changes in this stuff over the years and a lot of time time it's two steps forwards one step backwards but then over a lifespan the little changes add up. When you're old and grey things will look at lot different than they did when you were a youngster.