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Tuesday, November 14, 2006

PC gone MAAAAAAAD...


Simply put, the great "PC" cliché, as commonly deployed in mainstream discourse, is cultural propaganda designed to befuddle and misdirect while defending the current power structure. All politics deal with power relations, and in the debate over America's alleged climate of "political correctness", there's a stark asymmetry of power between the defiant megaphone-wielders who complain of being constrained by humorless hypersensitivity from below, and the under-represented people of color, women, LGBT, handicapped, poor, and otherwise marginalized or dispossessed people who have no choice but to absorb the linguistic, cultural, and physical barbs of the ruling class. The former feel psycho-emotionally oppressed by their inability to crack puerile ethnic jokes without criticism; the latter simply are oppressed.

found via barbelith, originally from here.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

really good point, i commmented on your comment about the C4 christmas speech and i feel like you have some great and informed views, keep it goin' its good readin things from someone who is on the same page x

07 December, 2006 23:47

 

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