All I have to do is follow the formula. Julia Serano explains How to Write a “Political Correctness Run Amok” Article, and it’s very detailed. At last, I shall be published by the New York Times or some other establishment organ that loves those stories about how universities and their students have become too PC and need to sit down and shut up and respect noisy assholes with lots of money, no matter what they say.
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Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
Serano is da bomb <3
They do? Well then, they can fuck right off.
I’m pretty sure the money is actually in articles about stupid sexy 20 somethings and their Millennial sex grinding apps on their smartphones… If my extended FaceBook feed is to be believed.
I was working with a guy about my age, today, and we somehow started remembering some jokes and humour from when we were younger. A lot of that stuff was hateful towards other folks. I don’t call it “PC”, but the modern trend away from ridicule is a good thing.
The piece you linked you linked to links to a piece I’d refute, too, for quite a few reasons. I guess this means I have to get off my ass and get my blog up. Thanks for telling us about this issue, because I’d have never stumbled across either of these articles. While Bill Maher is funny, and even witty at times, he’s also wrong about a lot. Even hypocritical, actually. His idiotic notions about curing AIDS (interviewing and supporting the moron who claimed to cure Charlie Sheen’s HIV+ status); his insistence that eating GMO foods can cause disease in humans, and the ultimate, dangerous nonsense that vaccines can cause problems such as autism, are the most glaring examples. He calls climate change deniers and Creationists scientifically illiterate, yet says that all the information isn’t in yet about vaccines. He supports “measles parties” (welcome to California). But his latest tirades have been about Political Correctness Run Amok, which he not only brings up on his own, he questions every comic he has on the show about it. I’m so sick of it. Thanks for letting me go off on this subject. That felt good.
this article makes the same mistakes as the type of article it criticizes – conflating distinct phenomenon. There’s a large difference, for example, between protesting Germaine Greer speeches and egging a conservative students dorm room door. You can’t dismiss articles that talk about speech surprising university rules or protest groups that use direct actions to silence their opponents (e.g. tearing down posters or trashing papers) by correctly pointing out that it’s fine to criticize people for things they’ve said.
@6 qwints: Wow. I’m sensing you may not be quite understanding how this ‘Social Justice’ thing works.