Some of my right-of-center friends maintain that political correctness is a leftist aberration while some of my left-of-center friends are convinced that most conservatives are bigoted male chauvinists cum white supremacists cum LGBTQ+ haters.
I’m afraid both are mistaken.
The way I see it, none of this has anything to do with left nor right and everything to those on each side of the divide driving themselves into self allocated and mutually exclusive corners.
Otherwise said, this dichotomy is a consequence of populism.
People residing in each ideological corner are constantly barraged with messages telling them exactly what they have prepared themselves to hear.
People residing in each corner are constantly barraged with messages deemed appropriate by those who reckon there is something to be gained, by ‘them’, from keeping those people as far apart as possible.
Maybe now, that Cambridge Analytica has just hit the fan, we’ll start to understand how fake this whole thing is.
And I can’t wrap this up without mentioning something which really bothers me.
Scott Adams, blog.dilbert.com
The ‘run of the mill’ populism is directed towards the ordinary people. Which have a valid excuse for not knowing what’s happening to them.
Political correctness is a self sustaining bubble which was generated and is maintained inside a supposedly more sophisticated medium.
Intellectually more sophisticated medium….
Hopefully, Zizek’s arguments will help us puncture this bubble!
Click on the picture above and see for yourself.
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