tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post4232792656971623386..comments2024-03-29T20:21:24.821+11:00Comments on The Social Pathologist: On PC motivationThe Social Pathologisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12927698533626086780noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post-80285362793440356392024-02-09T21:41:20.171+11:002024-02-09T21:41:20.171+11:00I am genuinely eager of reading this web site’s po...I am genuinely eager of reading this web site’s post to be updated regularly.안전한 파워볼사이트https://www.outlookindia.com/outlook-spotlight/2024-powerball-site-recommended-ranking-safe-powerball-real-time-game-site-top15-news-334143noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post-25159677253953377192024-02-09T21:41:03.406+11:002024-02-09T21:41:03.406+11:00 I’ll in all probability be again to learn far mor... I’ll in all probability be again to learn far more, thanks for that info.안전 토토사이트https://www.outlookindia.com/outlook-spotlight/2023년-11월-스포츠-토토사이트-순위-및-추천-사설토토-먹튀검증-top15-news-328577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post-23559871993434292802010-11-26T13:51:00.272+11:002010-11-26T13:51:00.272+11:00Sometimes the truth hurts and unfortunately the pa...<i>Sometimes the truth hurts and unfortunately the pain is necessary.</i><br /><br />I have to say, the only "speech" I've seen censored by Political Correctness are racial and sexual epithets.<br /><br />I certainly know about people who have been prevented from presenting views by people who held different views, but that has nothing to do with PC, per se. After all, silencing the opinions of those you disagree with has a long and dishonourable history on every side of the political spectrum.<br /><br />So, if you have truths that you cannot spill because of PC, as opposed to opinions that many vehemently disagree with, I'd be happy to hear what they are :-).Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04894012303210613148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post-35799578322563725862010-11-24T22:06:17.588+11:002010-11-24T22:06:17.588+11:00@NYCer
Thanks for the kind comments.
@Tom
I fee...@NYCer<br /><br />Thanks for the kind comments.<br /><br />@Tom<br /><br /><i>I feel most PC is simply common courtesy writ larger. </i><br /><br />Common courtesy is not a basis for social policy. The basis of courtesy is the polite considerations of anothers feelings. In being polite, we frequently censor ourselves on behalf of the other persons feelings. Many times we tell small "white" lies to protect another's feelings. "Oh, that dinner was lovely!", "No, I'm really enjoying myself, "That dress really suits you" and so on. Sometimes the truth hurts and politeness is a way of avoiding the truth.<br /><br />These little lies may facilitate social interaction but are intellectual toxins, which stifle argument and inhibit necessary social discourse. Sometimes the truth hurts and unfortunately the pain is necessary.The Social Pathologisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12927698533626086780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post-48451230503429727112010-11-24T12:55:27.288+11:002010-11-24T12:55:27.288+11:00I feel most PC is simply common courtesy writ larg...I feel most PC is simply common courtesy writ larger. <br /><br />I'm a Canadian, and perhaps it is different elsewhere, but with one or two exceptions, the PC course of action has generally been what any reasonably polite Canadian would be inclined to do anyway, so I find it hard to get worked up about it.<br /><br />Now, having said that, I have seen PC used as a weapon to bully and for personal enrichment, but then I've also seen those who rally around freedom for *exactly* the same reasons. People are people, scoundrels will use whatever tool comes to hand. That doesn't invalidate the tool.Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04894012303210613148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post-17749935073092861132010-11-23T09:04:31.035+11:002010-11-23T09:04:31.035+11:00Just wanted to say I enjoy the blog and have becom...Just wanted to say I enjoy the blog and have become a frequent visitor. Keep up the good work.NYCernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post-61406823706409897102010-11-23T02:15:55.600+11:002010-11-23T02:15:55.600+11:00Edmund Burke would have had an awful lot to say ab...Edmund Burke would have had an awful lot to say about that. He frequently exposed the vanity of radicals who trust in their own "reason" to guide them, that is this feeling they have to be superior to all. <br /><br />They will always move from a "cause" to another "cause" as the former becomes irrelevant. When they have purged society of all contravening, dissenting elements, they will rule that gender discrimination in dating ought to be forbidden. Once they are done with it, they will extend it to animals (there are already some pretty daft legal cases in Spain regarding this point). They will ever come up with something to justify their endless meddling. Global Warmism is an obvious example.Scrooge McDuckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14661633619869556934noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post-1448783908262447982010-11-22T14:17:04.929+11:002010-11-22T14:17:04.929+11:00A PC culture helps protect a business or governmen...<i>A PC culture helps protect a business or government agency against lawsuits from agitators.</i><br /><br />This is true. The people who enforce PC in this context are different from the PC crowd who have "got PC religion". Still it is a consequence of PC being entrenched by law.<br /><br />And the only reason it became entrenched by law is because PC influenced politicians voted for it.<br /><br />And the only reason the politicians voted for it was because it was percieved as a mainstream approved policy.<br /><br />And the only reason it became a mainstream approved policy is because the average voter--who is not that bright--confused being nice with being good. In the end the "average voter" screwed themselves over.The Social Pathologisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12927698533626086780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post-6220281486510020382010-11-22T13:57:15.707+11:002010-11-22T13:57:15.707+11:00The poster misses the self-interested aspects of P...The poster misses the self-interested aspects of PC. A PC culture helps protect a business or government agency against lawsuits from agitators. These agitators are then redirected against the enemies of PC establishments.<br /><br />PC is hard to crack rationally because it was not developed as a rational system, it's developed to protect oneself in court, in office politics and in ordinary politics.<br /><br />The altruistic motives of PC just make these self-interested motives even more dangerous.More Anonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post-29969175530254723752010-11-22T13:14:29.140+11:002010-11-22T13:14:29.140+11:00@David
Then they rashly seize upon any sort of id...@David<br /><br /><i>Then they rashly seize upon any sort of ideas and activities, anything that is fashionable at the moment and seems to them important for the welfare of individuals–</i><br /><br />I think the important term here is <i>rashly</i> as opposed to considered, Most people, even the "educated", don't really think things through. A diabolical genius intending to co-opt the public in the pursuit of his goals should make the ideals both highly emotionally charged and <i>simple</i> to comprehend.<br /><br />Specialisation is a major factor at play here. The extensive study required for first rate professionalism in an area of expertise means that the individual is never exposed to other ideas which properly orientates their profession in the big scheme of things.<br /><br />Such individuals are ripe for simple yet seductive ideas when searching for meaning in their lives.The Social Pathologisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12927698533626086780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post-27334724394424130762010-11-22T03:43:18.912+11:002010-11-22T03:43:18.912+11:00Interesting remark by the German historial Friedri...Interesting remark by the German historial Friedrich Meinecke, re the sorts of Germans who fell under Hitler's spell:<br /><br />“It often happens nowdays…that young technicians, engineers, and so forth, who have enjoyed an excellent university training as specialists, will completely devote themselves to their calling for ten or fifteen years and without looking either to the right or to the left will try only to be first-rate specialists. But then, in their middle or late thirties, something they have never felt before awakens in them, something that was never really brought to their attention in their education–something that we would call a suppressed metaphysical desire. Then they rashly seize upon any sort of ideas and activities, anything that is fashionable at the moment and seems to them important for the welfare of individuals–whether it be anti-alcoholism, agricultural reform, eugenics, or the occult sciences. The former first-rate specialist changes into a kind of prophet, into an enthusiast, perhaps even into a fanatic and monomaniac. Thus arises the type of man who wants to reform the world.”David Fosterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15464681514800720063noreply@blogger.com