tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post2110092524662443454..comments2024-03-26T06:17:49.527-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: The Alumni Fight BackStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-78580932297265227282016-08-05T11:06:13.962-07:002016-08-05T11:06:13.962-07:00Fighting against political correctness is a tough ...Fighting against political correctness is a tough battle, at least if you do it within the framing of the argument of the corrector, which demands only one legitimate side of an argument.<br /><br />I'm not against a new term supercorrectness over PC, if that helps people see that sometimes they have good points, but aren't always helping by needing other people to be wrong for them to feel validated.<br /><br />Somehow you have to help people step back from their self-righteous issue for a while and consider other parallel issues that they don't have emotional charges for them personally, and then there's a chance someone might see the light.<br /><br />John Cleese offers fair argument:<br />http://www.mediaite.com/online/monty-pythons-john-cleese-too-much-political-correctness-makes-us-like-1984/<br />https://youtu.be/QAK0KXEpF8U John Cleese: Political Correctness Can Lead to an Orwellian Nightmare <br />---<br />“The idea,” he said, “that you have to be protected from any kind of uncomfortable emotion is one I absolutely do not subscribe to.”<br /><br />This is why it’s a problem to be around “super-sensitive people,” Cleese explained, because “you cannot relax and be spontaneous because you have no idea what’s going to upset them next.”<br />---<br /><br />I imagine is we all can see this behavior in others, especially others we don't want to like, while it can be hidden in our own behavior or those we agree with, when certain self-righteous feelings take over, and you can hyperfocus at the sins of others, however innocent the other is in intent or any objective harm.<br /><br />And the reality behind this hyperfocus and supercorrectness I have to think is shame, so people who are fighting feelings of shame, we'll say toxic-shame rather than situational shame, they feel temporarily better when they can scapegoat someone else's wrong-doing. <br /><br />And in this case its especially easy to go wrong when you're not advocating for your own needs or sensitivities, but someone else, or a class of "victims", and therefore you assume they can't handle reality without having protectors like you.<br /><br />I tend to think episodes like this have a finite lifetime and break down in their own corruption, but 4 years of college goes fast, and even one graduating class that fails to see its own naivety is one too many.Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-28588256922822637852016-08-05T09:25:27.577-07:002016-08-05T09:25:27.577-07:00Sam L. said...
Well, AF, they chose that course, a... Sam L. said...<br />Well, AF, they chose that course, and "on their own heads be it". I've read that the <b>MO state legislators are cutting the appropriation for the U of MO.</b><br /><br />August 5, 2016 at 8:39 AM<br /><br />I certainly hope so; most states, I fear, will not.<br />However the metastasis from PC to #BLM violence might be a tipping point if it comes to the campuses.AesopFannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-11160197656795156162016-08-05T08:39:38.769-07:002016-08-05T08:39:38.769-07:00Well, AF, they chose that course, and "on the...Well, AF, they chose that course, and "on their own heads be it". I've read that the MO state legislators are cutting the appropriation for the U of MO. Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-20922358438585453962016-08-05T08:32:37.138-07:002016-08-05T08:32:37.138-07:00I would cheer this development more enthusiastical...I would cheer this development more enthusiastically, except for the sad fact that, if the small colleges wither and die instead of reforming, there will be nothing left but the large public institutions that use your money for indoctrination without your acquiescence (I would have said permission, but by voting for the Marxists in charge - or by failing to defeat them, since there have been no unanimous elections that I know of, other than the one for Obama in Philadelphia -- the electorate has ceded that quality).AesopFannoreply@blogger.com