Political Correctness in America 3
By Steve
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Now I am not supporting "complete honesty" in regard to what we think about others. Complete honesty can be a deadly thing. Amos Oz talks about Israelities being completely and meanly honest with each other, giving each other heart attacks or emotional breakdowns. I also understand that the creators of political correctness, most of them white, are really trying to do the best that they can. But an etiquette that was supposed to curb tribalism among races is actually creating more tribalism and even intense stupidity. America, in general, is not a culture that cares about foreigners, yet the best academics are Jews, the Dutch, WASPS, and Europeans. These are people who are rigorously willing to think through what they say. And yet, that does not mean that they are not racists. They are often Anti-American also. Stereotypes can often be justified by the fact that stereotypes protect us from the unknown. But the UNKNOWN may not be as terrible as we assume. I find that in general, people just want others to listen to their narratives because their narratives have been so distorted by Hollywood, Academia, and other cultures. This is not just minorities, but workingclass Americans and others. So I would propose just a simple "public" correctness, not even that, just a persona. For the way things are going now, despite all the intentions of politically correct academics to privatize racism, racism is going to spill into the public sphere. It already has. And of course, people will seek to ostracize others whom they consider to be racist in their eyes. They will undoubtedly ostracize the innocent and the "ceremony of innocence will be drowned" because the innocent sit on the fence and they will ostracize people who really try to figure out what racism is all about. In "Rising Sun" with Wesley Snipes and Sean Connery, it is Wesley Snipes who is accused of being a racist when he is actually one of the few struggling with himself. Now, I always feel somewhat like an alien in society. I partake but I never really get involved. When I read magazines about sexual harassment cases in academia, I am literally shocked by how it is almost always people lower on the pecking who get the blame. Outside of Academia too, the Trey Von Martin case. Hispanics were a little bit higher on the pecking order than blacks at that point. At the same time, some sexual harassment cases are literally manufacteured, as in the case of the black girl who cried rape at Wellesley or somewhere around there. Alan Dershwitz did a study of sexual harassment cases and quite a few of them are completely false. But many men feel so guilty or ashamed when they are accused. And some men thought they were doing what all the other academics were doing. Some Feminists attacked this culture at one point, but now, they seem to engage in the same behavior. Equality means that you can do the evils that others do. Where is this going to lead? Sexual politics? Also, if politically correct people are trying to create bisexuals or neuters, what makes human nature so malleable that people will not react against such an assault on their nature? Is human nature really bisexual... isn't it beyond good and evil?
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