Current Events > I am so pissed off with political correctness...

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Things are fucked up.

Trade unions have been pretty much destroyed. Job security is a thing of the past. The middle class gets smaller and smaller while the wealthiest control a bigger and bigger piece of the pie. College costs hundreds of thousands of dollars. If you get cancer you lose the house to pay for your treatments.

It's all fucked up.

Yet why the FUCK are we so focused on things like gender-neutral pronouns and transgendered bathrooms and banning "offensive" words and all these other ridiculous things?

Politics these days is like if you have lung cancer but you don't give a damn and you just work super hard to get rid of that wart on your big toe. Seriously I don't get it... it feels we only care about fixing the non-important stuff.
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Because im offended and youre racist!
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I'm not convinced, to be honest. All the "PC" stuff you're talking about seems to exist mostly on the internet as grassroots campaigns and conversations between college age students. The fiscal stuff gets looked at by the people actually making decisions.
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Did fox news tell you you're not allowed to say businessman now?
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dont get so pissed off you get yourself fired
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Well said. Affirmative action needs to go, asap, since it equality CANNOT EXIST with it. This political correctness is a big reason why trump won. It could have been anybody, the American people just wanted somebody to speak for *us* and to say that enough is enough.

The more and more pc things get, the less voice we have to fight back. They've labeled all white people who oppose racist affirmative action as bigots. They've labeled any white personwhos not ashamed of his lineage to be a racist. They've taught white kids in school that they should feel bad for things that happened before our great grandparents were born.

I thought this shit was bad under bill Clinton, but obama really put the cherry on top with his anti white racism.
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it's true that identity politics is meaningless unless it's grounded in dialectical materialism

but class reductionism - like what you're doing - is not helping
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Better to be pissed off than pissed on.
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Transgenderism is a civil rights issue. Just because it isn't important to you doesn't mean it isn't important, and standing up for the rights of transgenders doesn't make the things you care about (trade unions, etc.) any less important.

We all share common cause, @frozenshock.

What's more important for a transgendered person, being able to put food on their table or making sure people call them by the proper pronouns?
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I'm offended by this

LordMarshal posted...

Because im offended and youre racist!

And by this too.
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frozenshock posted...

What's more important for a transgendered person, being able to put food on their table or making sure people call them by the proper pronouns?

those two things are not in opposition to each other
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pinky0926 posted...

I'm not convinced, to be honest. All the "PC" stuff you're talking about seems to exist mostly on the internet as grassroots campaigns and conversations between college age students. The fiscal stuff gets looked at by the people actually making decisions.

This.

Further, the more you post, the more it's obvious that your position really is "we should be focusing on socioeconomic issues that impact me specifically". Further still, the "struggles" of the middle class are over-stated as fuck, and you ought to get a realistic grip on life.
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--kresnik-- posted...

Well said. Affirmative action needs to go, asap, since it equality CANNOT EXIST with it. This political correctness is a big reason why trump won. It could have been anybody, the American people just wanted somebody to speak for *us* and to say that enough is enough.

The more and more pc things get, the less voice we have to fight back. They've labeled all white people who oppose racist affirmative action as bigots. They've labeled any white personwhos not ashamed of his lineage to be a racist. They've taught white kids in school that they should feel bad for things that happened before our great grandparents were born.

I thought this shit was bad under bill Clinton, but obama really put the cherry on top with his anti white racism.

Lol
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Sada_Pop posted...

--kresnik-- posted...

Well said. Affirmative action needs to go, asap, since it equality CANNOT EXIST with it. This political correctness is a big reason why trump won. It could have been anybody, the American people just wanted somebody to speak for *us* and to say that enough is enough.

The more and more pc things get, the less voice we have to fight back. They've labeled all white people who oppose racist affirmative action as bigots. They've labeled any white personwhos not ashamed of his lineage to be a racist. They've taught white kids in school that they should feel bad for things that happened before our great grandparents were born.

I thought this shit was bad under bill Clinton, but obama really put the cherry on top with his anti white racism.

Lol

pinky0926 posted...

I'm not convinced, to be honest. All the "PC" stuff you're talking about seems to exist mostly on the internet as grassroots campaigns and conversations between college age students. The fiscal stuff gets looked at by the people actually making decisions.

Because Hillary Clinton hasn't spent the past ten months blaming her loss on racism and sexism, right?
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darkjedilink posted...

pinky0926 posted...

I'm not convinced, to be honest. All the "PC" stuff you're talking about seems to exist mostly on the internet as grassroots campaigns and conversations between college age students. The fiscal stuff gets looked at by the people actually making decisions.

Because Hillary Clinton hasn't spent the past ten months blaming her loss on racism and sexism, right?

Who?
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averagejoel posted...

frozenshock posted...

What's more important for a transgendered person, being able to put food on their table or making sure people call them by the proper pronouns?

those two things are not in opposition to each other

'I can't afford to eat, but at least I get called a woman after chopping my dick off!'

Seems legit.
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frozenshock posted...

Trade unions have been pretty much destroyed.

Great
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darkjedilink posted...

averagejoel posted...

frozenshock posted...

What's more important for a transgendered person, being able to put food on their table or making sure people call them by the proper pronouns?

those two things are not in opposition to each other

'I can't afford to eat, but at least I get called a woman after chopping my dick off!'

Seems legit.

again, respecting transgender peoples' pronouns and wanting them to have enough to eat are not in opposition to each other. please don't pretend that they are
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Its a massive waste of energy having to worry about who you're 'offending' usually its people that are just offended for being offended's sake too. So stupid. Its getting harder and harder to tell the truth anymore, and that's concerning. It's almost as if its by design
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I find it hard to wrap my head around the idea that political correctness is a major issue, or in any way stifling people, in a country whose president is Donald Trump.
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Antifar posted...

I find it hard to wrap my head around the idea that political correctness is a major issue, or in any way stifling people, in a country whose president is Donald Trump.

Donald Trump is the most thin skinned 'leader' I've ever seen.
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Stop spending so much time on the internet and start actually talking to people and getting to know them. You'll quickly realize how much of a non-issue the stuff you described really is.
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Antifar posted...

I find it hard to wrap my head around the idea that political correctness is a major issue, or in any way stifling people, in a country whose president is Donald Trump.

Nah bro, we got tired of political correctness, so we elected a man who demands apologies every time someone insults him.
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Why does this only ever go one way?

Why are people happy with their state/local governments passing laws making laws against transgender people, getting into expensive legal fights over gay rights, etc. when there are jobs to consider?
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