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Post by Account Deleted on Jul 18, 2018 23:38:53 GMT
That's the way to do it! Reminds me of the furore over Tom & Jerry violence a few years back. Like over-sanitizing our homes risks reducing natural resistance to infection, I can't help but wonder if this trend to sanitize children's lives from all depictions of evil isn't going to end up reducing their ability to recognize - and weakening their ability to confront - true evil later in adult life. It's a fine line - shielding them from evil, while raising them to be people equipped to combat it. Requires a certain awareness of evil in the world. The relatively safe space of children's stories and entertainment is how that has been traditionally done for generations, when they see that the depicted evil was all scare and show by a jolly puppeteer or friendly storyteller. I found this bit particularly sad, but understandable in our times: "As a children’s entertainer, it’s a strange game, I have got to be very careful now, I’m not allowed to cuddle them or take pictures of them laughing. I’ve been doing this for 42 years after taking over from my father and I’ve never done anything to hurt anybody." Edit: Also, I'd be more worried about age inappropriate video games that 'program' children to repeatedly participate in violent acts themselves, without consequence, over and over - such as Fortnite, or numerous unrated game apps. |
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Post by maolsheachlann on Jul 19, 2018 9:56:36 GMT
That's the way to do it! Reminds me of the furore over Tom & Jerry violence a few years back. Like over-sanitizing our homes risks reducing natural resistance to infection, I can't help but wonder if this trend to sanitize children's lives from all depictions of evil isn't going to end up reducing their ability to recognize - and weakening their ability to confront - true evil later in adult life. It's a fine line - shielding them from evil, while raising them to be people equipped to combat it. Requires a certain awareness of evil in the world. The relatively safe space of children's stories and entertainment is how that has been traditionally done for generations, when they see that the depicted evil was all scare and show by a jolly puppeteer or friendly storyteller. I found this bit particularly sad, but understandable in our times: "As a children’s entertainer, it’s a strange game, I have got to be very careful now, I’m not allowed to cuddle them or take pictures of them laughing. I’ve been doing this for 42 years after taking over from my father and I’ve never done anything to hurt anybody." Edit: Also, I'd be more worried about age inappropriate video games that 'program' children to repeatedly participate in violent acts themselves, without consequence, over and over - such as Fortnite, or numerous unrated game apps. As Chesterton said: "Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey." But really, political correctness like this has nothing to do with protecting children, or any of the other pretended motives. It's always about the same thing...POWER....wielding power over the private lives of ordinary people. |
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Post by maolsheachlann on Aug 30, 2018 18:47:39 GMT
Responding to a request for donations on the Burkean Journal's Facebook page, somebody called Maria Pachowicz wrote: "Pal, I assure you this country has more than enough conservative straight white men who feel the irresistible need to share and spread their hateful opinions on literally anything and everything that doesn't concern them. We really aren't that desperate."
This kind of contribution to mainstream discussion is utterly naturalised and nobody blinks an eye at it. It's outrageously racist and sexist, but it's somehow OK because it's only racist against white people, and it's only sexist against men. It poisons discussion so that all you have to do is stereotype a particular position as "Pale, male and stale" and you've half-way won the debate. I really think people need to take it a LOT more seriously.
(Yes, there is a backlash against it now, and we should all be supporting that backlash as much as possible, but it still has great strategic advantages in academe, the media, the entertainment industry, politics-- and, sadly, the Church.)
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Post by Alaisdir Ua Séaghdha on Aug 31, 2018 8:34:43 GMT
I think we really need to look at the entertainment industry and how it works, because that is the most influential.
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Post by maolsheachlann on Aug 31, 2018 9:08:59 GMT
I think we really need to look at the entertainment industry and how it works, because that is the most influential. Agreed Alasdair. I have often thought the most accurate predictor of what anyone from the age of (roughly) 15 to 50 thinks on any subject is what George Clooney thinks about it. There are very few exceptions, like Chuck Norris or James Wood, but it's astounding just how monolithic the social and political views of the entertainment industry are. |
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Post by hibernicus on Sept 22, 2018 22:12:54 GMT
Lest anyone think I underestimate the evils of political correctness, here's a piece by Rod Dreher noting some recent examples of academic whitewashing of the Soviet regime, including an LGBTetcetera group at Goldsmith's College in London tweeting that it was perfectly OK for them to suggest that radical feminists who don't accept that transwomen are women should be sent to the Gulag, because the Gulag was really a benevolent rehabilitation system with all sorts of wonderful facilities. www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/comrades-communists-colorado/Now I have several times posted on my view that fear of communism distorted right-wing Catholicism before the demise of the Soviet bloc, and expressed remorse for my youthful follies in that regard, but this sort of blindness is on another level altogether. It's on a par with those neo-nazi holocaust deniers who claim Auschwitz was a holiday resort complete with swimming pools (yes, there really have been liars as blatant as that) - except that while those holocaust deniers are rightly excluded from any shred of intellectual respectability, these Gulag deniers who think Lenin abolished social hierarchy are treated as amusing eccentrics, like the anarchists in THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY who plot all sorts of crimes in public places at the top of their voices and are assumed to be practical jokers. That's selective political correctness. BTW the current PRIVATE EYE has a darkly amusing skit on this, with Ivan Denisovich discussing which of the option provided by a benevolent camp administration he will try today, before deciding that 14 hours of slave labour with guards yelling at him tickles his fancy... |
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Post by maolsheachlann on Jan 10, 2019 10:13:03 GMT
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Post by maolsheachlann on Jan 11, 2019 20:43:23 GMT
A Welsh footballer has been caught on camera making a Nazi salute. He says he was making a hand gesture to the person holding a camera and happened to have his hand over his mouth. The problem is that, if we accept such excuses, all kinds of plausible denials for Nazi salutes could be made. Someone could claim to have been scratching their upper lip with their finger while showing someone else how high something is with their other hand. I warn anyone of a sensitive disposition not to click on the link as the totalitarian undertones of the image are quite distressing. We should remember that Saunders Lewis, one of the founders of Plaid Cymru, once praised Adolf Hitler. www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2019/0108/1021945-hennessy-nazi-salute/ |
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Post by assisi on Jan 12, 2019 12:28:31 GMT
A Welsh footballer has been caught on camera making a Nazi salute. He says he was making a hand gesture to the person holding a camera and happened to have his hand over his mouth. The problem is that, if we accept such excuses, all kinds of plausible denials for Nazi salutes could be made. Someone could claim to have been scratching their upper lip with their finger while showing someone else how high something is with their other hand. I warn anyone of a sensitive disposition not to click on the link as the totalitarian undertones of the image are quite distressing. We should remember that Saunders Lewis, one of the founders of Plaid Cymru, once praised Adolf Hitler. www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2019/0108/1021945-hennessy-nazi-salute/The guy beside him is giving the Churchill 'V' sign with his two fingers. Maybe they are a comedy duo, 'Hit and Church'. Coming to a theatre near you.....   |
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Post by maolsheachlann on Jan 22, 2019 15:42:14 GMT
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Post by Young Ireland on Jan 22, 2019 21:20:52 GMT
The problem is that not all forms of political correctness are evil, we need to make a distinction rather than make an all-out charge which will cause as many problems as it would solve. |
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Post by maolsheachlann on Jan 22, 2019 23:33:57 GMT
The problem is that not all forms of political correctness are evil, we need to make a distinction rather than make an all-out charge which will cause as many problems as it would solve. I disagree. I think all PC is wrong, and to me the determining sign of PC would be its novelty. If people fifty years ago would think a taboo was crazy, you can assume it's crazy. Some taboos would have made as much sense to somebody in 1950 or 1850 as they do now, and I support those. |
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Post by maolsheachlann on Jan 23, 2019 9:49:01 GMT
The sorry spectacle at the Lincoln Memorial shows how poisonous political correctness has become. People have internalised a simplistic formula that white = bad and ethnic minority = good, and that any conflict involving a supposedly "privileged" group and a supposedly oppressed group (or even a genuinely oppressed group) can only be judged in one way. This mindset has spread to the Catholic church and most of its various organs-- in fact, they seem to be particularly prone to it, as this story shows. The speed with which the school and diocese condemned the boys was quite indecent. catholicherald.co.uk/commentandblogs/2019/01/22/dear-covington-boys-everyone-failed-you/Notice the complete absence of condemnation towards the Hebrew Israelites (African Americans) who were recorded shouting the most outrageous racial and other slurs. This is an example of what Dave Cullen often calls "the soft bigotry of low expectations". To hold minority groups to lower standards than the majority does indeed suggest you have lower expectations for them. Fr. Dwight Longenecker makes this point on his blog: "First we saw the group of Black Hebrew Israelites combining their far out religious views with the most vile racial and sexual hatred. Why are they not receiving more attention? They harassed and hounded the boys from Covington Catholic using degrading sexual and racial epithets. But they get a pass? Why? If a white, fundamentalist group (like for example the folks from Westboro Baptist) used their religion as a weapon to attack others it would be vilified, named, shamed and condemned– and rightly so, but no one dares to speak out against a group of religious fanatics who were not only loud and aggressive verbally, but also made a pretty intimidating physical presence." dwightlongenecker.com/covington-catholic-and-the-poison-of-weaponized-religion/ |
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Post by maolsheachlann on Jan 28, 2019 19:34:27 GMT
Edward Feser has some choice words about the Covington situation. edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-bizarro-world-of-left-wing-politics.htmledwardfeser.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-bizarro-world-of-left-wing-politics.html"So, at whom do the left-wing press and social media direct their venom? Not at the liar and not at the racists, but at some poor Covington kid who was… smiling at Phillips. That’s all he did. For this act of unspeakable depravity, members of the cybermob opined that he should never be forgiven, fantasized about punching him in the face and putting him and his friends into a woodchipper, hoped for his death and the deaths of the other boys and their families, offered sexual favors to anyone who would assault him, compared him and his friends to Nazis and Jim Crow era racists, called for their doxxing, made death threats against him and his friends and their school, compared him and his friends to the Roman soldiers who spat at Christ, and so on and on." |
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Post by maolsheachlann on Feb 11, 2019 12:52:53 GMT
Gemma O'Doherty has had some excellent, extended interviews with John Waters on the politically correct insanity in Ireland and elsewhere. Here is the latest. youtu.be/fDHwZGTRRKkPeople are finally waking up to the fact that political correctness is not a joke or an inconvenience, but a threat to everything worth caring about in our society. And a very deliberate and concerted campaign. |
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