Post-PC Posts
More great comments on "post-political correctness" from Jeff Jarvis:
I welcome the Post PC era with with trumpets. Political Correctness is essentially undemocratic; it assumes that we are all too fragile to endure the open and frank debate that democracy demands; it assumes that offense is the greatest sin; it brings us all to a lowest common denominator of gagged silence. I hate how this came to become a prerequisite to being liberal; it's not. Political correctness is a form of political fundamentalism, an attempt to impose an orthodoxy without open debate, an attempt to legislate civilized behavior according to a list of rules handed down by the political priesthood -- telling you all the things you can't say -- rather than according to intelligence and maturity just common sense of all of us. It is possible to be liberal without being politically correct and it's time for sensible liberals to stand up to this fundamentalism -- just as it's time for sensible religious believers of any brand to stand up to religious fundamentalism.
On a related subject, Damian Penny, has some choice comments on this silly editorial in Canada's Globe, which sentences GWB to "the bonfire eternal" for mistakenly uttering the word "Paki."
Posted by Dr. Frank at January 12, 2002 09:15 AM | TrackBack