Quote from: calaverasgrande on July 25, 2016, 06:12:33 PM
What really kills me is that most of my life I have been on the left. An anti-marxist, anarchist left, but left nonetheless. When I was kid my parents used to take us to demonstrations and such. I even went to New College of California. A now defunct college which had an Anarchist Dean when I attended, and a very progressive curriculum.
I'm not stranger to the left.
However I actually think for myself.
I also do not read whatever magazine all these people read to stay current on the latest and greatest new bad words.
I was recently called out for saying tranny instead of trans.
I do not bear any enmity to tranny or trans people. I used to work sound in a gay club called Trannyshack. I've performed as various punk, noise and electro-industrial acts at gay clubs like the End Up.
In college I worked at a phone bank which was managed and staffed by a large number of gay and transexual people.
But I said tranny not trans. I'm now a fagbashing bigot.
To be honest, I think that this kind of language correctness stems from the practice of applying such rigid standards to politicians. I do not think it is bad to question the ideology of political figures who use words like 'nigger' or 'bitch'. They are generally supposed to be held to a higher standard, and should be well aware of the intricacies of identity, culture and race in their country.
For this same policing and denouncing to be applied to private citizens is absurd. Take your marxist purge elsewhere.
I totally agree with you here on your point about language. A problem I have, and it's totally my problem and not having to do with you, is that when you say this stuff - which is right anyways- there's gonna be some actual right wing bigot who rears his face and says "hey, yeah I hate fucking political correctness too, and I wanna say tranny and fag all I want". So, my personal problem that I've had with this shit is that I don't even feel comfortable critiquing the left, because I almost start to feel like I'm turning into a right winger when I do it too much.
Now, there's a real problem though, of people being way too sensitive. It's almost like a complete trade off, unless you're somewhere real special with really smart people. On one hand you got people who are overly sensitive morons who take anything you say at face value, and act like they're the morality police and stuff- real conceited and sanctimonious self righteous attitude of you ask me- and they won't choose their battles, and they won't take subtlety and nuance into account at all, they're almost as bad as bigots. On the other hand, you get people who are so jaded to insensitivity, you may as well just punch yourself in the face, because there's a lot of assholes who really just don't care about how you feel. I can say that I'm actually an extremely sensitive person, and there's definitely been numerous occasions where people have really hurt my feelings, just from taking on the internet. It sorts of perplexes me that it can even happen to me, because sometimes I may even consider myself to be an intelligent person who's above shit like that.
So, basically I think what it boils down to, is that human beings really have no fucking clue how to treat each other right either way. It'd have to be filled with such intelligent, far sighted people, we are absolutely nowhere near that level of sophistication. And come to think of it, I think back on that thing you said about being so pro lgbt, but then being a fagbashing bigot as soon as you use the word tranny, you can prep yourself as much as you want, I can prep myself as much as I want, nothing will prepare you for the unpredictable stupidity of all the god damn morons who inhabit this earth. God damn it, sometimes I just wish that I could carry around a baseball bat with me, and just whack anyone upside the head who's a moron. Too bad I spend most of my time on the internet and that's not even a realistic portrayal of my life. Fuck.
