Living in Vermont, with a wife teaching at Middlebury, and three college kids, I am very aware of political correctness, privilege, and offense. The "victimhood jujitsu", where something you say or hear puts you or someone else off-balance. The passive aggression, finding subliminal intent where none was on the sayer's mind.
Not that I hold the conservative view... just addressing the educational tactic of reverse-labelling.
PC culture may be a good thing or a bad thing. But political correctness may have unintended consequences when it emboldens a type of anti-bully, a Madame LaFarge, to call out privileged people for oblique intent. Indeed, some of the political right of Brietbart give credit to liberal college shaming to emboldening them. Like in jujitsu, the left shifts its body weight to anticipate the right's weakness, and the right re-leverages its body weight to counter.
Like sloshing in a bathtub, this kind of immature discussion makes a mess.
Insecurity about our inherited history can cause us to project insecurity onto others. It bears a lesson most societies have taught us to resist.
Not that I hold the conservative view... just addressing the educational tactic of reverse-labelling.
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Like sloshing in a bathtub, this kind of immature discussion makes a mess.
Insecurity about our inherited history can cause us to project insecurity onto others. It bears a lesson most societies have taught us to resist.
