Posted on 02/09/2018 9:50:55 PM PST by aquila48
This past academic year we have seen a number of examples of political correctness “gone mad” on college campuses. We have seen many conservative speakers having to cancel their talks, we have seen Ivy League students becoming hysterical about some benign comments about Halloween costumes, and we have seen Emory students freaking out and protesting to the university president because someone scrawled Trump 2016 in chalk on the campus grounds.
...I certainly am not someone who dismisses “political correctness” in its entirety. We should indeed be attentive to issues of power and privilege approach these issues with reflection. However, over the past decade, I have found myself increasingly concerned with political correctness evolving into an oppressive righteousness that are in many ways deeply misguided and incomplete and there is definitely a need to push back against it when it spills over into absurdity.
I recently (re)discovered a wonderful frame that allowed me to crisply state what is wrong with modern academic leftist “political correctness” from none other than the eminent philosopher Fredrick Nietzsche. I was reintroduced to these ideas in the context of a course I was taking on Existentialism. After detailed study of many cultures, historical contexts, and various philosophies, Nietzsche articulated the view that there are two broad moral views or moral frames of mind, that of master morality and of slave morality. Slave morality is concerned with issues of justice, fairness and protection of the weak. It is called slave morality because its emphasis and focus is on those who are powerless, controlled or in positions of minority. From my unified perspective, especially that of the Influence Matrix (see below), slave morality can really be thought of as “horizontal”, red line, or affiliative-love morality. The emphasis is on placed on equality, sensitivity and connection.
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How soon before he’s fired
What has developed is a very weak and marginalized thought process within people who claim they are college-educated, but their thinking or political beliefs are so weakly entrenched....that they can’t afford to listen to anyone opposing them. In essence, they can’t defend their position.
This triggers people into becoming snowflake-like and acting like 12-year-old kids.
Slave, peasant, what is the difference? The whole social justice concept is that people of exceptional ability must degrade themselves so that those less able feel better about themselves. Total mistake. It denies those of lesser ability the pride in their actual achievements just because they are not stellar.
The fact of the matter is that without this type of insanity, people of lower ability are still fully capable of managing their own lives with pride and dignity. The whole socialist concept assumes they cannot and degrades them even more than it degrades the exceptional.
That is the intent, to subordinate everyone to the self-proclaimed “elite”. Unfortunately, the most capable people that I have known are actually very humble and respectful of others. They are truly elite, and they do not look down on people of lesser ability. They are more likely to really appreciate and admire the accomplishments of people who have more challenges.
Think about it. Who is more heroic, the brave warrior who saves a fellow, or the average person who rises above his ability and circumstances to save another from harm. Exceptional people recognize this and admire the hell out of it.
The pseudo-elites however have utter contempt for the brilliant and the average because they live only on jealousy and greed and assume that everyone is as inherently degraded as they are.
The social justice warriors are truly the least among us and should never be put in positions of leadership. They can only lead others downward.
agreed!..it really is a mental issue...It has a name...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance
Isn’t that what Nietzsche said about Christianity?
We’ll said. SJWs do not want to raise up, but to lower everyone to the lowest common denominator.
Vertical - produces dat
Horizontal - gimme dat
Horizontal - in the wagon
Vertical - pulling the wagon
Vertical - ant
Horizontal - grasshopper
I would agree on Cognitive Dissonance. Part of this issue is the transformation of colleges in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. Forcing debate upon students and requiring them to demonstrate a thought process to reach a decision...used to be the value of a college education. This was true throughout the 1700s and 1800s.
Over the past forty-odd years...colleges dumped reasoning and debate skills. There may be varying reasons for this, but the end result is that you have pretender-educated-people with no real skill to reason, debate or accept other ideas. The degree today....is worthless.
Yes. They can not defend their positions. That is it, exactly. Nothing left but panic.
.used to be the value of a college education
but the end result is that you have pretender-educated-people with no real skill to reason, debate or accept other ideas.<<<
Bingo!...Liberalism is PRETENDING you understand....as long as you havent been mugged yet...
The bible sometimes speaks of saving faith as becoming a (willing) slave of Christ.
By being a Son and a Father and a Holy Spirit simultaneously, God in the classic Christian understanding can occupy both horizontal (brother) and vertical (Lord) roles. The same God who commands offers the mercies of a brother.
Social psychologists have long talked about how emotional manipulation can work effectively to snooker a large percentage of the population, to get them, at least temporarily, to believe the exact opposite of the facts. These techniques are known in the intelligence community as “perception management,” and have been refined since the 1980s “to keep the American people compliant and confused,” as the late Robert Parry has reported. We saw this in action last decade, when after months of disinformation, about 70% of Americans came to falsely believe that Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11 when the truth was the opposite – Saddam was actually an enemy of the Al Qaeda perpetrators.
The al-Qaeda hunt got Hussein caught up pretty quickly in it, I do remember that. Should it have? Would helping Hussein have helped end al-Qaeda?
Thanks aquila48.
[snip] Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to. [/snip]
Dr. Theodore Dalrymple: Our Culture, What’s Left Of It
interviewed by Jamie Glazov | Frontpage | August 31, 2005
http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=7445
With friends like Washington, they don't need enemies.
George Orwell’s Road to “Wiggan Pier” is better.
The PC crowd doesn’t love or care for the poor and oppressed, they just hate everybody that isn’t. It’s not the same thing.
The concept has been around for a long time. It is the reason that we are supposed to have a 1st Amendment.
Pretty good binary explanation
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