Wrong again, the reason I, and other people like me, don't have a solution is not because we believe we have a right, it is because we know it isn't a problem.
I know I have a right to write about, do, and film things that would cause you to run from the room. I guarantee you that, if I chose, I could have you, and all the other self righteous, pretentious, assholes writhing in disgust. There are things out there that you cannot imagine, and somebody is making money off of all of it. That is not chaos, despite your fake moral outrage.
As for seeing societies collapse, what makes you think I need to be a god to have witnessed it happening? There are people alive right now who saw society collapse, and people who helped to bring it about. You yourself have seen it on the nightly news, perhaps you weren't paying attention.
Seconded. My guess is that they push PC for nothing more than political gain, but I admit to being open to the possibility that there's more to it.
Those who push PC the most are the same as those who push a far more authoritarian, centralized government. So, while the thought of living under a far more authoritarian government may seem terrible to you and I, they're perfectly comfortable with the thought of being controlled like that. Literally.
Therefore it's not exactly a wild leap to imagine how these people would be quite happy seeing that centralized government control our very words under the guise of "keeping the peace" or "maintaining order" or whatever the handy excuse might be -- we could check any number of countries in the Middle East for the terminology to use.
And obviously, these people would be more than happy reporting those who break the rules by saying what is "unacceptable to the People". They're already doing it.
The First Amendment would have to go, and with it the Constitution. You know, that shitty document written by rich, white slaveholders.
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Damn. Why am I always out of rep when I really need it?
While I have no problem with general rules of acceptable language in schools, the work place, on public television and radio etc., short of inciting a riot, libel, and slander, I have a huge problem with any form of government suppression of speech. I believe history is a great teacher that such is among the first steps that totalitarian governments take to control the people totally.
Standards of reasonably acceptable language in certain public venues respect a culture in which people can expect to not be exposed to vulgarity or excessive crudity without their consent. But there is a huge difference between acceptable language in polite company and in suppression of thought and opinion, even that considered mysogynistic or racist. Most especially when it is only one narrow group who dictates what is racist, mysogynistic, etc.
There is a huge difference between me instructing my employees that I will not tolerate blatant insensitivity directed at each other or our clients and the government telling me that I must hold such standards. There is a huge difference between my organization choosing a particular point of view to emphasize and requiring those within the organization to respect that point of view and the government shutting down an organization for no other reason than the opinions it emphasizes..
There is a huge difference between me choosing not to do business with somebody I consider to be insensitive to people and in organizing a mob action to destroy such a person and/or his/her livelihood. My choice of who to do business with is my business. For me to impose my will to think, believe, or use specific language on another is not only evil, it is dangerous.
For the government to do so much more so.
And we are dangerously close to having political correctness, enforced by the government and a government who will punish us if we don't hold specific points of view now. If we don't push back we could lose our First Amendment rights.
