#politicalcorrectness

[poetrythreesixfive]

The Reign

Everyone remembers the revolution,

but most forget the terror that followed.

The fervor, the fanaticism, the intolerance

of anyone who resembled an undesirable.

The suspicions, the accusations, the truth

twisted and distorted to fit the manifesto.

The arrests, the seizures, the sentences

passed by judges flush with fresh power.

The purge that was worse than any battle

fought in the name of justice and peace.

The circles of the virtuous pointing and

shouting, reaching for stones

at their feet.

                    -GeorgeFilip

[tmarshconnors]

"Act according to your principles, not your mood."

Jordan Bernt Peterson is a Canadian psychologist, author, and media commentator. Often described as conservative, he began to receive widespread attention in the late 2010s for his views on cultural and political issues. Peterson has described himself as a classic British liberal and a traditionalist. Born: 12 June 1962 (age 61 years), Edmonton, Canada

Clinical Psychologist: Jordan Bernt Peterson is a Canadian clinical psychologist, professor of psychology, and former professor of psychology at Harvard University. He gained widespread recognition for his academic work, particularly in the field of personality psychology.

Author: Peterson is a prolific author. His most well-known book is "Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief," which explores the relationship between belief systems, mythology, and the human experience. He gained even more popularity with his second book, "12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos," which combines psychological insights with practical advice.

Controversial Figures in Public Discourse: Peterson became a controversial figure due to his critiques of political correctness, compelled speech legislation in Canada (Bill C-16), and his stance on gender pronouns. His views on these issues sparked both support and opposition, making him a central figure in debates about free speech and political correctness.

YouTube Presence: Peterson gained significant popularity through his presence on YouTube, where he shares lectures, interviews, and discussions on a wide range of topics, including psychology, philosophy, and current events. His online presence has contributed to his global influence and audience.

Clinical Practice: Before gaining fame as a public intellectual, Peterson had a successful career as a clinical psychologist. He worked in private practice and taught at Harvard University before returning to Canada. His clinical experience has informed much of his academic and public work on topics related to psychology and self-improvement.

[sublimeobservationarcade]

Big Ears Had To Bow Out From Noddy: The Woke Conspiracy.

‘If you don’t know, vote No!’ This tag line from the recent Voice referendum captures succinctly the political stratagem of the conservative right. Turning ignorance and indifference into celebrated public virtues in a bid to capture the vote of the dominant white cohort. The sustained attack on all things ‘woke’ is part and parcel of this 21C campaign. Identifying examples of woke in workplaces and public life have been vote winners for socially conservative candidates and parties. I remember it began with things like the apparent banning of racially offensive terminology from children’s books. Niggers and gollywogs were the first to get the chop. White folk were upset about the removal and amendments of characters and aspects from much loved stories from their childhoods. Big Ears had to bow out from Noddy: The woke conspiracy. Roald Dahl stories were full of inappropriate and politically incorrect characters and terminology. There was this air of ‘how dare they!’ The majority white view was – can’t these people take a joke. Of course, this is the problem in a nutshell, because unless you are in the shoes of those being racially slurred you have no idea what it feels like. “For years, many on the right have been lambasting a certain kind of progressive sensibility denoted with the term “political correctness”—endless fodder for Rush Limbaugh and others in the nineteen-nineties. But those semi-comic tirades were nothing compared with the serious political fight against “woke.” Florida’s governor, Ron DeSantis, for example, recently signed a so-called Stop woke Act into law, and made the issue the center of his midterm victory speech. In Washington, there has been talk in the House of forming an “anti-woke caucus.” “ - (https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/political-scene/what-does-woke-mean-and-how-did-the-term-become-so-powerful) #UNGA President Donald J. Trump by National Archives and Records Administration is licensed under CC-CC0 1.0

Conservative Idealogues’ Big Ears For All Things Woke

The whole anti-woke movement is predicated on cultural entitlement. In the recent past, the Anglosphere was the loudest and only voice in the room. It did not have to contend with a diversity of views about stuff. Its comfort zone stretched from the coastal shore to the highest mountain range and everywhere in-between. Whiteness was the Alpha and the Omega. Anything else, anything different was fair game for derogatory remarks delivered with humour. The put downs were usually accompanied with the leavening of a bit of a joke. Funny if you were standing with the mob, maybe not so funny if you were the butt of the joke - ‘the other’. A Nod Toward Identifying Political Correctness What I find when examining the public outcry against political correctness and woke – is that it is largely based on laziness and shallow thinking. The mob consciousness doesn’t look at things from any other perspective than their own. This is the way things have always been and any shift from this is ridiculous and wrong, according to their me-centric opinions. Poorly educated people are like children in that they only think about themselves. Higher education in the humanities actually trains students to consider the perspective of others. The world is progressing and a diversity of views is now countenanced and encouraged. This is because time doesn’t stand still and things do change. The make-up of the population is changing, whether you realise it, like it or not. Unthinking standpoints from the past are no longer appropriate to the current reality. Life is forever moving on. What was politically acceptable a decade ago or more is no longer appropriate. Dinosaurs die out despite their large footprints left behind in the fossil record. The politics of grievance is the manipulation of socially conservative attitudes and groups for electoral advantage. Photo by Viktoria Slowikowska on Pexels.com The Conservative Distraction As Cher sang, you cannot “turn back time’ and the conservative stratagems are never ultimately effective. It is a distraction from the real game, which is economic grift. Social conservatives and Christian Nationalists have sold their economic futures in return for promises of autocratic authoritarian leadership. Those on the right are funded by big business and their intention is always to increase profitability by whatever means possible. Turning to Trump, as supposed champion of the downtrodden working class is like the German Jewish population of the 1930’s voting for Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. It is the stupidity of these folk so caught up in their bigoted beliefs about other people that they get into bed with a conman BS billionaire who has made a lifetime mission out of screwing people. Dictatorships don’t just end badly for their most obvious victims; they ultimately bring the whole nation down. What you get from governments like Trump is a lot of inactivity on the really important issues facing communities. At the same time, tax revenues are decimated due to things like lowering the corporate tax rate, as Trump did in his inaugural term in office. Nepotism and jobs for the boys becomes rife and this produces incompetence and corruption. Nearly a million Americans died from Covid during the pandemic, which was the worst health outcome from a wealthy nation in the world by far. The stupidity and selfishness of Republicans is quite astounding really. Photo by Polina Zimmerman on Pexels.com Americans for many years had the world believing they were the best of us. The white man in his element and all this BS about the land of the free. Nobody anywhere believes that anymore. The rise of Trump has sullied that delusion permanently. America has never been able to throw off the influence of the slavers. They and their progeny have sat like fat spiders pulling the strings to favour their interests at the expense of others. Abraham Lincoln was an outlier, a rare light in a dark tunnel of greed and exploitation. Oh yeah, they murdered him in their cowardly fashion gunning down an unarmed man watching a show in the theatre. This has been a constant theme ever since, Garfield, JFK, Martin Luther King Jnr, RFK, and the many more progressive leaders who have been murdered by right wing extremists. Still, they demonise the left as radicals and dangerous anarchists. If there was any truth to this surely someone would have taken out Trump by now. No, the gun violence and insurrection always comes from the hard right. President Trump Congratulates Record Breaking Astronaut (NHQ201704240005) by NASA HQ PHOTO is licensed under CC-BY-NC-ND 2.0 The rumours abound that Trump has syphilis. The sores on his hands, the dreadful smell emanating from him, and the mental derangement being revealed of late. Trump is not sure if he is running against Obama or Biden. He is mixing up Nikki Hayley with Nancy Pelosi. Historical dates are being confused too frequently for mere chance. The mental acuity of the man has been exposed as not up to the job of being President. Trump wears so much fake tan that he looks like an orange clown. Still, his Republican mob see and hear only what they want. The bigoted voice of their small town America, where foreigners, gays, and the like are not welcome. White supremacy waves its flag like a sad relic from a forgotten time. The real world has moved on and the jobs and wealth were taken by those billionaires in the Trump corner. They point the finger at progressives but this is deflection. The real culprits are on the Trump side but ideology prevents the truth coming home to roost. Their orange Jesus is a conman and grifter in the great tradition of American religious life. Robert Sudha Hamilton is the author of Money Matters: Navigating Credit, Debt, and Financial Freedom.  ©MidasWord Read the full article

[andebonn]

'The Revolting Student'

More of this rubbish: By Mistake On Purpose, published in various online backwaters

[usnewsper-politics]

The Threat to Free Speech: How Open Discussion is Being Suppressed #dissentingvoices #Freespeech #opendiscussion #politicalcorrectness #suppressionofviews

[usnewsper-business]

Why Business Needs to Pick its Targets in Social Matters #activism #cancelculture #politicalcorrectness #socialjustice #wokeness

[blog-aventin-de]

Blick auf die Geschichte

Blick auf die Geschichte ⋆ Vergangenheit ⋆ Political Correctness

Blick auf die Geschichte ⋆ Vergangenheit ⋆ Political Correctness

Der Blick auf die Geschichte ändert sich im Laufe der Zeit. Es ist daher primär die Aufgabe der Geschichtsforschung, Dinge, Prozesse und Personen immer wieder auf den Prüfstand zu stellen und neu zu bewerten. Nur so entsteht eine differenzierte Sicht auf die Geschehnisse vergangener Zeiten sowie deren Personen. Was in diesen Tagen allerdings vielen Menschen große Sorge bereitet, ist, dass historische Personen oder Kunstwerke von gewissen Eiferern ausschließlich nach den Maßstäben der heute üblichen »Political Correctness« oder »Cancel Culture« bewertet werden. Anschließend werden diese betreffenden Personen oder Kunstwerke einfach verworfen, aussortiert oder umgeschrieben, was derzeit in sehr beunruhigendem Ausmaß geschieht. In letzter Konsequenz würde das doch bedeuten, dass wir unsere gesamte Vergangenheit bzw. Kultur gewissermaßen »ENTSORGEN« müssen, da es ja ständig neue Festlegungen geben wird. Heute dürfen diese Begriffe und morgen jene nicht mehr verwendet werden! Hier kann man sich allgemein nur mehr Augenmaß wünschen. Denkmal-Stürmerei oder eine Kultur-Revolution, wie sie es schon öfters auf der Welt gegeben hat, sollten wir uns wirklich nicht antun. Ein guter Weg mit gesundem Menschenverstand kann nur darin bestehen, sich mit der Vergangenheit unter richtigem Augenmaß auseinanderzusetzen, statt sie in Bausch und Bogen zu verwerfen. Es bleibt sonst bald nicht mehr viel übrig von unserer Geschichte und Kultur. Diese Auseinandersetzung erfordert natürlich auch eine gewisse Bereitschaft und etwas Mühe. Nicht alles war in der Vergangenheit richtig gewesen und gut. Aber einfach alles in Grund und Boden zu treten, ist sicherlich nicht der richtige Weg und eine sehr negative Zeiterscheinung. Ist vielleicht gerade das unser heutiges Problem, dass wir vor lauter Oberflächlichkeit bzw. Schnelllebigkeit nicht mehr imstande sind, Menschen, Bücher und Werke der Vergangenheit im Kontext ihrer Zeit richtig bewerten zu können? Artikel: Wann ist eine Umbenennung angebracht!? Blick auf die Geschichte ⋆ Vergangenheit ⋆ Political Correctness Read the full article

[lugastroy]

Is Cancel Culture Killing Free Speech? An Analysis of Elon Musk's Controversial Tweet

In a recent tweet, Tesla CEO Elon Musk declared his disdain for "cancel culture" and it's potential to stifle open discourse. Cancel culture refers to boycotting, shunning, or otherwise punishing individuals or entities for holding or expressing views deemed unacceptable by a particular group or society at large.

Musk's tweet comes amid a growing public discourse on cancel culture and its impact on free speech. Critics argue that cancel culture has led to a culture of fear and self-censorship, while advocates claim that it serves as a necessary tool to hold individuals and entities accountable for their actions and words.

Musk's tweet, which reads "Cancel culture is destroying discourse. Reasonable people can disagree on many topics, but it should not be controversial to say that open debate has been replaced with a censorship circuit," echoes the sentiments of many who believe that cancel culture has gone too far.

The issue of cancel culture has become increasingly polarizing in recent years, with high-profile individuals such as J.K. Rowling, Dave Chappelle, and Gina Carano facing backlash for their comments on various issues. Some have even lost jobs or faced other repercussions for expressing controversial views. Read more.

[therealmattnappo]

Shane Gillis Gets The Last Laugh #shorts

[heartofashepherd]

Psalm 12: Political Correctness is a Societal Cancer and Psalm 32: The B...

[darknerdygonzo]

“Look, television does not and must not create values, it’s merely a picture of all that’s out there — the good, the bad, the ugly,”Believe this: The politicians and companies that seek to control what each of us may watch are a far greater danger to America and our treasured freedom than any of our guests ever were or could be.”-Jerry Springer

[poetrythreesixfive]

Identified

I exist within this slant-world of dogmatic assumptions

somehow insanely unaligned with the grace of rational

thought so evident to my functional senses desperately

attempting to reconcile the inconsistencies and hypocrisies

and blight of a worldgonemad that openly, and with clear

intent, declares its greed, its animosity, its intent to ruin me,

hate me not for who I am but for what everyone who ever

looked like me, who were never me, had done to someone

else I never met beneath any phase of the moon across the

sweep of nations within history, tokenized, brokenized,

ageistized, inverted into a trope with prejudice, in writing,

and told to shut up and sit down and stand aside and sit in

the back because it’s someone else’s turn, and any attempt

at resistance will be openly and publicly used against me;

rejected for my age, my color, my gender, my ancestry, for

what they think I can or cannot do, and if you are reading

this and feel the same, know that they have a choice about

whether or not to judge you, but you do not have a choice

about who you are, but you must choose how to respond.

                                                -GeorgeFilip

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[andebonn]

Happy New Year

'The Boardroom'

More of this rubbish 'By Mistake On Purpose' published in various online backwaters.

[usnewsper-business]

Why Business Needs to Pick its Targets in Social Matters #activism #cancelculture #politicalcorrectness #socialjustice #wokeness