(to use the popular misquote)
Can't deal with the true meaning of what's being said, I guess. So much easier to smear your opponent as a racist.
Strawman.
Actually Scarlet wasn't a racist -- she was mindless on that matter, had never thought about it, and used the casual cultural references she was raised in. What she was, especially at the beginning, was a petty little princess that thought
everyone was beneath her, white or black. By the end of the movie she had lost the pettyness.
Typical mindless categorizing kneejerk PC.
Funny how you use PC as if it was a perjorative. Like 'liberal' ...
Creavolution writes:
Message 204Actually you've put me in mind of an old spitting image sketch (possibly from the 80's) ... it was three or four tory wives sitting around drinking tea and talking about politics. they would mention things like sexual and racial equality and then shriek "It's all political corrcteness gone Maaaaad!"
a satire for sure but indicative of the over enthusiasm for the political right to thrust the label onto anything that might be percieved as 'liberal' or left-of-centre.
This certainly appears to be the right wing view of PC: that they must abuse it as it infringes on their natural right to discriminate against whole groups of people.
The importance of PC to me is the concept that we should discriminate (if we must) against people based on the
individual in question, not on the basis of whatever group they are perceived - rightly or wrongly - to belong to.
If you happen to demonstrate to me that you are a {
fanatic religious fundamentalist that chooses to be ignorant of actual facts and deny evidence}, then I am free to think of you as a {
fanatic religious fundamentalist that chooses to be ignorant of actual facts and deny evidence}, but not to then think that all religious fundamentalists are {
fanatic religious fundamentalists that choose to be ignorant of actual facts and deny evidence}. See?
The conservative right seems to have the most trouble with this, as it is what 90% of their political campaigns are about: they attack what the opponents is and not what their position is -- paint them as some member of some whacko group and you don't need to deal with their argument actually involves on a factual basis eh?
True, they killed people for no social or political reason, being garden variety criminals.
They were terrorists. Terrorists that sprouted, as terrorists always have and always will, whenever groups of people are oppressed and discriminated and treated as less than other humans (and one of the reasons that increased oppression and discrimination and bad treatment will never solve the problem).
The black panthers went away, dwindled, and virtually died as a political movement not because they were defeated but because black people won the basic right to be treated as equals ... not just in fact, but in NAME as well.
Well, they benefited from it. The intellectual lefties invented it for them.
Where is the black panther party now as a political movement? Who's running for president of the US? What have they done lately that makes the news? --- surely if they
benefited as you say they should be a major player, at least in the liberal world today, eh?
http://www.seeingblack.com/x052402/panthers35.shtml
It's like a high school reunion -- the people have moved on.
What they benefited from was not any PC wording, but the actual civil rights -- civil rights they receive because they are american, not because they are black, and certainly not because they were black panthers.
Those civil rights were received not because of the 'PCing" of america, but by passing laws that made equality a reality.
Now stop being such a "Typical mindless categorizing kneejerk PC" (political conservative).
Enjoy.
Edited by RAZD, : changed "at" to "as" typo
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