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The Right Has Its Own Version of Political Correctness. It’s Just as Stifling.
Posted on 8/5/19 at 5:08 am
Posted on 8/5/19 at 5:08 am
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But conservatives have their own, nationalist version of PC, their own set of rules regulating speech, behavior and acceptable opinions. I call it “patriotic correctness.” It’s a full-throated, un-nuanced, uncompromising defense of American nationalism, history and cherry-picked ideals. Central to its thesis is the belief that nothing in America can’t be fixed by more patriotism enforced by public shaming, boycotts and policies to cut out foreign and non-American influences.
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The patriotically correct rightly ridicule PC “safe spaces” but promptly retreat to Breitbart or talk radio, where they can have mutually reinforcing homogeneous temper tantrums while complaining about the lack of intellectual diversity on the left.
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Waving a Mexican flag on U.S. soil means you hate America, but waving a Confederate flag just means you’re proud of your heritage. The phrase “Happy Holidays” instead of “Merry Christmas” needs a trigger warning.
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Every group has implicit rules against certain opinions, actions and language as well as enforcement mechanisms — and the patriotically correct are no exception. But they are different because they are near-uniformly unaware of how they are hewing to a code of speech and conduct similar to the PC lefties they claim to oppose.
Interesting read.
Cato Institute
I’m sure the comments here that follow below will in no way prove the author’s thesis.
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Posted on 8/5/19 at 5:11 am to Ted2010
Lame and untrue
Posted on 8/5/19 at 5:13 am to Ted2010
Odd, you weren’t stifled from posting?
Posted on 8/5/19 at 5:15 am to homesicktiger
And you can see the folks who didn’t read the article or didn’t understand the point.
Posted on 8/5/19 at 5:18 am to SirWinston
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Untrue
Hardly
Posted on 8/5/19 at 5:19 am to Ted2010
So stifled you posted twice! The right must suck at stifling your speech.
ETA .. not stifled thrice!
ETA .. not stifled thrice!
This post was edited on 8/5/19 at 5:21 am
Posted on 8/5/19 at 5:22 am to SirWinston
Very much. I had no issue, actually thought it was touching, that Mariano Rivera's supporters had small Panama flags at his induction to the HoF. He never once trashed the country that provided an opportunity to be successful.
I do take issue with the American flag bring taken down and the Mexican flag being raised in it's place. Or flying above the American flag.
It's good to know who you are and where you're from. You don't like it? You can go where you think it's better.
I do take issue with the American flag bring taken down and the Mexican flag being raised in it's place. Or flying above the American flag.
It's good to know who you are and where you're from. You don't like it? You can go where you think it's better.
Posted on 8/5/19 at 5:23 am to Ted2010
The primary difference, of course, being that patriotic correctness would be based in the Constitution. The First Amendment doesn’t protect you from ridicule. As a conservative, I support your right to air your thoughts publicly because it also gives me the right to say, “frick your feels.”
Political correctness doesn’t allow for anyone to say anything that might hurt your feelings. Big difference. Conservatives don’t need protection from liberals. We do enjoy each other’s company. It’s a natural inclination. That’s why birds of a feather flock together. Despite some folks’ insistence that everything is just a choice (like gender).
Political correctness doesn’t allow for anyone to say anything that might hurt your feelings. Big difference. Conservatives don’t need protection from liberals. We do enjoy each other’s company. It’s a natural inclination. That’s why birds of a feather flock together. Despite some folks’ insistence that everything is just a choice (like gender).
Posted on 8/5/19 at 5:27 am to Ted2010
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I call it “patriotic correctness.” It’s a full-throated, un-nuanced, uncompromising defense of American nationalism
Except now it’s Trump’s Republican Party that is anti-war and wants to get us out of all these foreign adventures.
Posted on 8/5/19 at 5:31 am to Tesla
Good post. I agree I’m part. But the ridicule or whatever can serve to shite down debate, prevent ideas from being exchanged or have the end of running off those who don’t toe the line so to speak.
Posted on 8/5/19 at 5:32 am to Ted2010
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The patriotically correct rightly ridicule PC “safe spaces” but promptly retreat to Breitbart or talk radio, where they can have mutually reinforcing homogeneous temper tantrums while complaining about the lack of intellectual diversity on the left.
I ridicule safe spaces and don’t retreat to Breitbart or talk radio. I also don’t have temper tantrums, which is interesting wording by the author.
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Waving a Mexican flag on U.S. soil means you hate America, but waving a Confederate flag just means you’re proud of your heritage.
When said wavers actually want to annex California, Texas, etc and make them Mexico, then yes, I think they hate America. Also, I don’t wave a confederate flag, but still hate Yankees because they are generally rude and obnoxious.
The whole article seems to be nothing more than a broad generalization and isn’t an
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Interesting read
Posted on 8/5/19 at 5:32 am to Cuz413
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You don't like it? You can go where you think it's better.
Ah the old if you don’t think like me then you can leave line.
Posted on 8/5/19 at 5:34 am to Ted2010
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It’s Just as Stifling.
Well this is just retarded from there outset.
Just one giant rationalization column
Posted on 8/5/19 at 5:39 am to Ted2010
“They do it too” doesn’t make it right.
PC is among the worst things that have happened to this country.
Posted on 8/5/19 at 5:41 am to TheHarahanian
Any attempts to shut down debate is bad. Both sides are guilty of it. Somewhere along the way we forgot that people can disagree without it getting to all this hatred we see today.
This post was edited on 8/5/19 at 5:42 am
Posted on 8/5/19 at 5:42 am to TheHarahanian
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“They do it too” doesn’t make it right.
The left has become the absolute King of the "both sides" stupidity. They apply it when if it's 100:1 imbalanced.
It's ridiculous
Posted on 8/5/19 at 5:42 am to Ted2010
quote:it's not even REMOTELY close
Both sides are guilty of it
Posted on 8/5/19 at 5:42 am to ShortyRob
But it is
Posted on 8/5/19 at 5:43 am to Ted2010
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But it is
Not even remotely.
You have to have you're head under a rock AND up your arse to think so
This post was edited on 8/5/19 at 5:45 am
Posted on 8/5/19 at 5:45 am to Ted2010
You guys do this all the time.
I swear. You're the type of assholes that will have 200 people punch the other side in the face, then catch some right winger doing the same and you start yelling......."see.... BOTH SIDES!!!!"
I swear. You're the type of assholes that will have 200 people punch the other side in the face, then catch some right winger doing the same and you start yelling......."see.... BOTH SIDES!!!!"
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