From: oldernow@dev.null   
      
   On 2024-02-08, Truthslave  wrote:   
      
   > As for the label 'political correctness', i would say that   
   > is now all it is. A label.   
   >   
   > Whatever it once stood for, has long been forgotten. Its   
   > now a sound one reacts to upon hearing it. Bemused by,   
   > angered by, threatened by.  Our rights, their claims,   
   > their freedom, our histories.   
      
   I was there. :-)   
      
   It stood for egos that made an extra effort to be seen to be aligned   
   with larger groups of egos banded together by the belief that   
   their beliefs about social matters - especially morality -   
   were the "right" ones and, thus, unaligned beliefs were   
   the "wrong" ones, sufficiently wrong to shame/guilt in   
   public, and quite probably socially shun/cancel the   
   possessors thereof.   
      
   Its essence is ancient and persistent through history, being fueled   
   by ego and collections thereof. Only its label changes. These days   
   we call it "wokeness".   
      
   But it's just plain old self-righteousness gone fundamentalist   
   for/by its fanning its own flames, i.e. by its constituent egos   
   repeatedly murmuring their self-righteous morality mantras.   
      
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