True enough. I was merely pointing out their tactic. As you have pointed out previously, normal people have more fruitful pursuits than arguing with a professional student who is in their third year of studying Sensitivity Awareness.noddy wrote:if you let someone shut you down so easily its not the fault of society.Simple Minded wrote:
In the US, outside taking legal action, PC is simply an attempt to shut up those one disagrees with. The tactic is to call them racists, Nazi's, misogynists, etc. or simply shout them down, and hopefully the PC tactician will convince the speaker that the audience is too idiotic to hear anything but a repeat of their own words, and the speaker will give up and go away.
One less voice from one who opposes the current fad. Mission accomplished.
i do understand peer pressure is painful but the only real issue for me is when you actually get punishment from the legal system, getting grief from some durian uni students is tedious but is a part of life.
losing your job because your manager is a weak willed durian is of course the ugly middly ground between those two situations, thats just sad but perhaps for the best.
If Bill or Suzy wants to claim their butt hurts because society is screwed up, I'm pretty sure they are accurately describing their view on life. My response is to decide if the input channel is open or not. High probability, they are pitching something more chic than I. They shouldn't have too much trouble finding a mirror or an audience that does not include me.
"If you fail to speak to a man who can be spoken to, you lose the man. If you speak to a man who can't be spoken to, your words mean nothing. Wise men lose neither men nor words."
Or in traditional Redneck Zen wisdom:
"Don't waste your time arguing with an durian, people watching might not be able to tell the difference."