I prefer the word discernment over judgement. But that just reflects how one defines the word. Otherwise, your thesis/analysis is well formulated. You were well educated, sir.
I see your point completely, and thank you for the compliment.
I tend to use “judgement” because...there is this resistance by some to actually judging people. It is somehow presented as a bad and prejudicial thing.
Like shame. We aren’t supposed to make people feel ashamed (no shaming) even though there are plenty of things that people SHOULD be ashamed about.
I think that I sometimes do it as a reflexive action to the resistance to it (and sometimes...in a pig-headed and stubborn way) in much the same way that I use the phrase “homosexual” instead of “gay” and why I absolutely love listening to Nick De Paolo (at http://www.nickdip.com)
If you don’t know Nick De Paolo he is both a comedian and political commentator, and one of the rudest-mouthed, most un-politically correct, unfiltered, and downright profane comedians and commentators out there.
He is no holds barred, and even though it is his schtick (the profane Wop stereotype, he calls himself a Wop!) he does it as a deliberate specific and brutal counterattack on people who wish to confine our First Amendment rights.
He is that way by nature, but in his counterattack, he is deliberately and savagely offensive. Nothing is out of bounds. He uses the “C” word liberally, and invokes nearly every racial stereotype he can, inciting them to come after him, and...is simply immune to their criticism.
I have always viewed myself as a gentleman and believe in treating people with default respect, but with the enemies of this country at our door, I do not extend that default courtesy to those who wish to destroy my rights, and me in the process.
I believe in poking them, offending them, and skewering their sacred cows whenever I can simply because it enrages them.
If they weren’t trying to actively destroy my Constitutional rights, I would likely just ignore them. Instead, I want to poke them in the bloody eyes at every single chance I get. There are few tenets of the Left that will not encourage me to stab at them with as much deliberate hostility as I can muster, but I will admit, I don’t have the constitution to take it to the Level Nick De Paolo does...it is just too far from my base nature.
If they take offense at what I say...I am going to say more of it. And more. And more. If I can make their heads explode with their own poisonous rage...I will.
To some that makes me a bad person, and I don’t want to be that; I would 100% prefer a civil discourse. But they are only interested in a Leftist Diktat, NOT civil discourse, and if they expect that my recourse is have to meekly accept their poisonous speech and censorship without retort...that won’t happen.
They expect us to hear it from them (because they think, coming from them, it isn’t “hate speech”) but if we respond in kind, we are the worst kind of criminal and must be silenced.
You can probably tell this is a subject, our First Amendment rights, that I feel quite strongly about!