Reply With QuoteShould you not be an expert on this? Fair enough, you've mellowed but I think it's fair to say you have form in this department.Originally Posted by Monty92
at the door of political correctness in the sense that it is a rebellion against it?
This article discusses the same phenomenon in the context of white nationalism.
http://thefederalist.com/2016/05/23/...e-nationalism/
Should you not be an expert on this? Fair enough, you've mellowed but I think it's fair to say you have form in this department.
Well I confine the worst excesses of my rudeness to the online world and to areas of it unlikely to get me into too much trouble (give or take the odd 5-a-side match with morbidly obese, foul-breathed residents of Hendon). In this respect, Awimb is my safe space
I think there is an element of that, yes. Make something unsayable and you immediately give people a reason to say it. Equally, people don't like being told what to do or say.
However, it's really a question of what norm you're looking to kick against. Once, it was a more conservative society to whom the idea of miniskirts, long hair on men, making fun of the Prime Minister or the Queen were shocking. Now, the problem with destroying all theses sacred cows is that the only shocking things left to say are the PC orthodoxies on things like race, sexual orientation, gender and - it would appear - scousers. However, it didn't start with PC by a long chalk.
What a disgusting article.
So they shouldn't view themselves The Tribe.A big part of the reason white Americans have been willing to go along with policies that are prejudicial on their face, such as affirmative action, is that they do not view themselves as a tribe
Pure colonial and genocidal diatribe (maybe).
4 realzWhen privilege theory took root in the 1990s
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I'm struggling to reconcile this all with the long history of satire in Britain.
Says AWIMB's very own, one man thought police Stalinist. You even get uncomfortable when I call Monty a big nosed ****.
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"White/Zionist supremacy my ass" says my t-shirt
Quote that you have it on a t-shirt and you're home free, Herbs.
Having designated 'court jesters' who are permitted to be rude about those in power and to whom you have to go to get your dose of offence is a perfectly sensible release valve. The difference lies in the improved dissemination of such material and the interpretation of that dissemination as effective permission for all of society to be rude to all other parts of society.
Essentially, sensible and healthy scepticism and disrespect for power have devolved into a culture of selfishness, rudeness, unkindness and just plain nastiness.
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