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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDonald Trump is not Polically Incorrect
Trump always refers to his racist statements as "not being politically correct".
Let me explain my understanding of not being "politically correct". If someone refers to "Native Americans" as "Indians", that's not politically correct. If a 60 year old man refers to a 26 year old woman as a "girl", that's not politically correct.
To say most Mexicans are murders and rapists, that's bigotry. To say all Muslims are terrorists, that bigotry. To allude to a woman's attitude being as a result of menstruating, that's sexist.
To too many Trump supporters, they think that bigotry is some how just not being politically correct and that has set this country back a generation.
Bigotry and sexism are not being politically incorrect, it's hate.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)Face it, tRump is an ignorant fool. What we see is who he really is.
Cary
(11,746 posts)Last edited Fri Aug 19, 2016, 11:16 AM - Edit history (1)
"My FREEDOM to say racist stuff." It's a terrible burden, you see, to be nice to people and to be respectful to them. Especially to those GD ******s.
I hate the term "political correctness." I hate everything about it.
Bibliovore
(185 posts)geardaddy
(24,938 posts)Thanks for sharing it!
Cary
(11,746 posts)A term I haven't heard in awhile is "reverse discrimination." What is "reverse discrimination?" Isn't it just being nice to people?
RoBear
(1,188 posts)"All you have to do to be politically correct is not be an asshole." (I don't have the book in front of me, so that might not be technically precise, but it certainly means what he said)
cali
(114,904 posts)Now I respectfully suggest you might do a little work with "concern."
cali
(114,904 posts)improve on it. You could try, I suppose, but one must work within one's...
You got it all wrong Cali. I gave you some good advice, from the bottom of my heart.
cali
(114,904 posts)You've repeatedly, if poorly, attempted to do so.
From the top of my head, if not from my heart,
cali
Cary
(11,746 posts)Where did I "repeatedly" "attempted to do so?" What on earth are you talking about?
Did you wake up on the wrong side of the bed this morning or what?
raven mad
(4,940 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)I was at a party many years ago and some guys were talking about skeet shooting. Being an avid cook, I asked how you cooked skeet.
There was silence for a second, followed by uproarious laughter.
raven mad
(4,940 posts)"Go to the range, grab a dead skeet and boil it".
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)should go snipe hunting one day
raven mad
(4,940 posts)who bought it! OH! I have a solution! Skeet and Snipe Stew!!!
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)raven mad
(4,940 posts)randome
(34,845 posts)As all good snake-oil salesmen do.
He may not even be a bigot himself but the constant pandering to his audience-of-the-moment makes it difficult for anyone to have an idea of who he really is.
At this point, Trump himself may not know who he is.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Never stop having childhood dreams.[/center][/font][hr]
Nevernose
(13,081 posts)He's too much of a narcissistic sociopath to actually care about another human being's race, color, or creed. He's actually one of the very, very few things worse than a bigot.
randome
(34,845 posts)[hr][font color="blue"][center]Never stop having childhood dreams.[/center][/font][hr]
raven mad
(4,940 posts)raven mad
(4,940 posts)I think most of it is fear.
Warpy
(111,529 posts)and some of it is resentment from adults being corrected by people half their age.
GoDawgs
(267 posts)Why, back in my day, I......GET OFFA MY LAWN!!
raven mad
(4,940 posts)Cancel the cross fox and ptarmigan.................
Wounded Bear
(58,826 posts)almost always. Hate and anger are secondary emotions that come up out of feelings of fear and uncertainty.
raven mad
(4,940 posts)I remember my dad during the Cuban Missile Crisis...... THAT was fear. I was all of 9.
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)physically, calling them names, denying them opportunity - that's hate.
If it is fear, they leave them alone and go away.
Calling hate fear is giving these bastards an excuse.
They are not afraid of you, or them - at all. Not even a little bit. They just hate.
ck4829
(35,100 posts)That the right uses to shame anyone who doesn't conform to the "freedom of saying what I want and you should agree with me or you aren't really free".
It seems as though, for far too many people, that anything that anyone on the left of center says or any standard they adhere to must be politically correct. If enough liberals said "kittens are nice" then there would be people who say that is politically correct and the opposite must be politically incorrect. That's an exaggerated example but it goes to the point of what I think this politically correct/incorrect binary is actually about.
That being said, I agree, I think we should assert Donald Trump isn't actually politically incorrect (Just incorrect), we have the right to construct or deconstruct that binary as well.
raven mad
(4,940 posts)I'm not "politically correct". But I DO expect honesty.
lillypaddle
(9,581 posts)Roland99
(53,342 posts)Warpy
(111,529 posts)It's what Columbus called the indigenous people he found in the Caribbean. Maps of that time referred to what we now call India as "Hindustan," so the name confusion came much later. Had Columbus been trying to pull a fast one at the court of Spain, he'd have called them "Hindustanis."
There's a lot of argument over the etymology of the word, whether it's the Spanish 'indio" or the Italian "en dio." The former seems a bit more likely since it meant "people of the land." They weren't of god yet, Columbus wanted to convert them.
In any case, it's what they call themselves in the aggregate when the tribe is unknown. As always, the best policy is to call a person by his or her name and respect individual preferences as to general identification.
63splitwindow
(2,657 posts)unblock
(52,571 posts)"political correctness" was, originally, simply an effort to align speech and behaviors with political attitudes.
for example, *if* your politics was that women should be treated equally and not demeaned, *then* you should not refer to 26-year old women as "girls".
it was *not* originally meant to apply to bigots and sexists! their politics was in fact, to demean women and minorities, so it was not "politically incorrect" for them to refer to women and minorities in demeaning ways.
what happened was that right-wingers with a martyr complex started taking it personally and resenting it, especially when it started showing up more generally, outside liberal communities. then it became an object of resentment for right-wingers who felt they couldn't properly express their own views, which did not align with the some of what was being presented as liberal political correctness.
so now, the generic term "political correctness" is really being overused to apply specifically to "liberal political correctness" or "egalitarian political correctness".
kentuck
(111,111 posts)The media should not be permitted to get away with calling racism and sexism "political incorrectness".
tblue37
(65,590 posts)Beartracks
(12,854 posts)You see it when, in support of "creation science," they assert that gravity is "only a theory" in order to invalidate science as knowledge -- because they don't understand scientific theory.
You see it when, in denial of climate change, they assert that the globe can't be warming up since winter is still a season -- because they don't understand climate science.
You see it when, in support of being "politically INcorrect," they assert that bigotry and sexism are warranted -- because they misunderstand the purpose of political correctness.
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BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)jtuck004
(15,882 posts)wing term that should only be used by right-wing thugs to further their point of view. Well, them and those who support them.
Many still call it respecting other people, because we are not conservatives, and don't use their language and framing so as not to support them.
tomp
(9,512 posts)should be noted by the clinton campaign for use in their ads.
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