{"id":7128,"date":"2015-05-28T11:18:55","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T11:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/05\/28\/on-advertising-ones-political-correctness\/"},"modified":"2015-05-28T11:18:55","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T11:18:55","slug":"on-advertising-ones-political-correctness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/05\/28\/on-advertising-ones-political-correctness\/","title":{"rendered":"On Advertising One’s Political Correctness"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am reading an article on some arcane topic such as counterfactual conditionals when I encounter a ungrammatical use of 'they' to avoid the supposedly radioactive 'he.'  I groan: not another PC-whipped leftist!  I am distracted from the content of the article by the political correctness of the author. As I have said more than once, PC comes from the CP<\/a>, and what commies, and leftists generally, attempt to do is to inject politics into every aspect of life.  It is in keeping with their totalitarian agenda. <\/span><\/p>\n

If you complain that I am injecting politics into this post, I will say that I am merely combating and undoing the mischief of leftists.  It is analogous to nonviolent people using violence to defend themselves and their way of life against the violent.  We conservatives who want the political kept in its place and who are temperamentally disinclined to be political activists must  become somewhat  active to undo the damage caused by leftist totalitarians.  <\/span><\/p>\n

By the way, there is nothing sexist about standard English; the view that it is is a leftist doctrine that one is free to reject.  It is after all a debatable point.  Do you really think that the question whether man is basically good is the question whether males are basically good? If you replace 'he' with 'she,' then you tacitly concede that both can be used gender-neutrally.  But then what becomes of your objection to 'he'?<\/span><\/p>\n

You are of course  free to disagree with what I just wrote, and you are free to write as you please.  I defend your right to free speech.  Do you defend mine?  I understand your point of view though I don't agree with it.  I can oppose you without abusing you though I may abuse you from time to time to give you a tase<\/span> taste of your own medicine should you abuse me.  Call me a 'sexist' for using standard English and I may return the compliment by calling you a 'destructive PC-whipped leftist.'<\/span><\/p>\n

It's all for your own good.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here's a modest proposal. Let's view the whole thing as a free speech issue.  Don't harass me for using standard English and I won't mock you for your silly innovations.  We contemporary conservatives are tolerant.  I fear that you contemporary liberals are not.  Prove me wrong.<\/span><\/p>\n

It's a funny world in which conservatives are the new liberals, and liberals are the new . . . .
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I am reading an article on some arcane topic such as counterfactual conditionals when I encounter a ungrammatical use of 'they' to avoid the supposedly radioactive 'he.'  I groan: not another PC-whipped leftist!  I am distracted from the content of the article by the political correctness of the author. As I have said more than … Continue reading “On Advertising One’s Political Correctness”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[231,6,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-speech","category-language-matters","category-leftism-and-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}