There is no such thing as ‘politically correct,’ it’s a myth contrived by the right.
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I am not a right-winger. But I respectfully suggest we saw a textbook example of
political correctness in the topic video occurring in the form of strong rebuke of a fellow for doing nothing more than honestly and openly expressing an ethnic bias. The proper response to that fellow's declaration would be to ask why he feels the way does. Instead he was pounced upon and derided for his honesty.
That kind of group behavior occurring repeatedly over time will have a conditioning (brainwash) effect on the retentively suggestible mentality, which includes the majority of Americans. Most people prefer to conform with rather than oppose what appears to be a majority.
You donÂ’t understand.
There is no ‘political correctness’ because private citizens admonishing the inappropriate behavior of other private citizens, absent sanctions by the state or the courts, is neither ‘political’ nor legally ‘corrective.’
Before the advent of civilization human societies functioned in accordance with established and accepted norms of conduct, necessary because there indeed were no governments, courts, or religious institutions.
Members of human societies abiding by these established and accepted norms of conduct is the oldest form of governance, and the most desirable.
Ideally, the state and the courts should be the last venue of societal dispute; private citizens who engage in speech or behavior understood to be inappropriate by private society in general should be prepared to suffer the consequences of that inappropriate behavior.
Legally and Constitutionally the citizen is at liberty to express his racist attitudes free from punitive measures by the state or courts in the context of the public sector; in the private sector, however, no such ‘right’ exists, as Constitutional prohibitions apply only to government entities.
The irony of this, of course, is it reflects conservative jurisprudence, where disputes should first be resolved through the democratic process, as opposed to citizens dashing to the nearest Federal court to file a complaint whenever someone believes they’ve been ‘discriminated against.’ The conservative myth of ‘political correctness’ conflicts with this jurisprudence, where conservatives complain that private citizens admonishing those who engage in inappropriate speech amounts to ‘censorship,’ when in fact it does not.
