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In reply to the discussion: Carville was right. Here's why it doesn't matter [View all]Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)Just like political correctness.
There's nothing wrong with being politically correct. It shames people who use racist language to refer to someone - or attacks a person of faith or specific cultural background. You go ask most Americans I'd be willing to bet they actually agree with that.
But the right has coopted the term and changed it to mean any criticism. If PC culture existed in the 1970s, All in the Family would have been banned!
George Carlin couldn't be a comedian in today's PC culture!
Bullshit. No one is policing that shit. There are plenty of shows today that are way more edgier than All in the Family ever was.
But it's a way to get people to be concerned over creating an inclusive society where you can't walk down the street and call an Asian person a ch*nk or a black person the n-word - at least, not without being shamed for it.
Wokeness is no different. Being woke just means you're aware of racism and overall inequality.
But again, the right has coopted the term to mean the extremes that are not there.
The shitty part is that we constantly allow for the right to do this. We let them define things that are typically good and turn them into a bad thing.
Wokeness is only a problem because we let the right define what it means to be woke. Exactly like with PC culture. PC culture meant maybe it was irresponsible to run a TV show that showed slaves enjoying being slaves. Now, the right has twisted it to mean the left is going to cancel you if you accidentally call someone by the wrong pronoun.
Don't get me started on 'Cancel Culture', which, again is not a thing.
Accountability Culture is - but even then, most anyone who has ever been the target of such thing likely has overcome the push to be canceled.
In 1987, Al Campanis, the GM for the Dodgers, was asked on Nightline by Ted Koppel why there wasn't many Black managers in the sport. Campanis basically said Blacks were too stupid to handle the job. He also said Blacks couldn't swim because they lacked buoyancy.
He was fired by the Dodgers the next day.
Was that cancel culture?
No. It was Accountability Culture.
The irony is that this happened in 1987! I actually think had it happened in 2021, Campanis would have been given his own show on FOX News and thousands of people saying he said nothing wrong - while starting a GoFundMe account for his troubles. That's the irony.