Quote:The fact that we have to be politically correct or be blasted for it is the real problem, honestly.

 

Quote:The fact that you think you have a right to not be criticized is the real problem, honestly.

The funny thing is those who tend to chafe the most under the perceived constraints of political correctness are those who tend to ideologically favor "the invisible hand of the free market."  Ironically, they don't want the marketplace of ideas to be similarly unfettered and self regulating.

 

Under what other paradigm are noxious ideas publicly disseminated and not treated accordingly in the marketplace of ideas?  If someone posts something on this board that people think is inane or worse, he or she is sure to hear about it from the posters here.  If one were to go to the stadium on game day wearing a sandwich board declaring the end of the world is nigh, he should expect a certain amount of ridicule.   While I do not endeavor to wade into politics on this forum, I do observe more than a token amount of vituperative dissonance when protesters not of the dominant paradigm go to a particular presidential candidate's speeches.

 

Yet these "rugged individualists" whine when they are somehow not exempted from traditional notions of common courtesy and decency when they spout bigoted bile and it is rejected by a larger audience that does not share their distaste for a particular subgroup.  They hide behind the apron of like minded individuals lamenting the bad people who have the nerve to call them on their bigotry and want the rules of the game to apply to everyone but them.

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