The creepy cult of modern faux liberalism

^^You must not have Facebook, because it most definitely has become a PC issue. For good and bad reasons. For one, the people who seek to discourage certain costumes don't seem to get that a form of appropriation is an inextricable part of any sort of cultural exchange and they don't distinguish between that and when it's used to mock or caricature. Dressing like a Native American, for instance, based on faulty media portrayals of the race, would be in the latter category, where dressing as Disney's Pocahontas would not. One makes a broad statement about a race and the other is an innocuous homage to a fictional or fictionalized individual.


Edited by Polymorphia - November 10 2015 at 20:08

once Halloween costumes become a PC issue, I'm throwing in the towel.

emigre80 wrote: actually, I've gotten to the stage in life where just about everyone, right, left, or center, is pissing me off.  Common sense seems to have left the building entirely.   The new thing that really freaks me out is teachers having to give warnings when a subject might be a "trigger" for a student who has had trauma in their life that could be triggered by that subject.  Which means anyone on any subject, so apparently professors can't teach any subject without tiptoeing around it.   I do agree that the right is worse, but I'm finding the left increasingly hard to live with as well.

actually, I've gotten to the stage in life where just about everyone, right, left, or center, is pissing me off.  Common sense seems to have left the building entirely.

Edited by emigre80 - November 10 2015 at 18:46

The Dark Elf wrote: The creepy cult of modern faux liberalism? As opposed to the sanguine sect of modern pseudo-conservatives? Those that would even bash Ronald Reagan as a godless lefty?

Those who clap rabidly when a GOP candidate says he would fire IRS agents if he was president? This who don't give a single f**k about people? Yes. Faux liberals are annoying as hell but disgusting pseudo-conservative are way worse.  

I read an interesting article on this event in The Atlantic called The New Intolerance of Student Activism. It talks about society developing the notion that disagreement is tantamount to disrespect. The students did not get the immediate satisfaction  and subsequent shaming of a faculty member, so they allowed emotion to dictate their behavior. It's sad that liberal values are being muddled by so called "social justice warriors" who believe blowing things out of proportion and trying to shame individuals with different values is a proper way to conduct themselves.

This is the article if a anyone's interested

 http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/11/the-new-intolerance-of-student-activism-at-yale/414810/

The modern left only exists because of freedom of speech, freedom of association, and other related Western ideals.  This is why they want to abolish those rights.

Blacksword wrote: Icarium wrote: whats differs from liberal and libertarian? Technically no difference I guess. In reality I guess the difference is libertarians want everything run by the free market, while liberals want some government control to mitigate what they beieve would be the negative impact of a free market running everything. Then there are pereipheral differences lke opposition to guns which seems the 'liberal' position, but not often the libertarain position. I think..

That is the way it is used today, but originally the word libertarian was more synonymous with socialism. IIRC, the word was coined by a French anarcho-communist.

one is a basterd son of the other right how are the political opinion on toll road paymentinmUS or UK

Icarium wrote: whats differs from liberal and libertarian?

Technically no difference I guess.

In reality I guess the difference is libertarians want everything run by the free market, while liberals want some government control to mitigate what they beieve would be the negative impact of a free market running everything. Then there are pereipheral differences lke opposition to guns which seems the 'liberal' position, but not often the libertarain position.



I think..