ktflyhome said:
If anyone on here wants to lambast me feel free. I have big enough shoulders....I think. B) B)
Well, let's see if you do.
The problem with the PC movement of the late 80s was its focus on words instead of actions. The words were never supposed to be the issue; it was the prejudices behind them.
And those prejudices produce a great number of wrongs in this country.
Being a black man driving in the wrong neighborhood can not only get you arrested, it can get you beaten up by the police. It happened while I was in Houston...
to a high-ranking local government official driving in his own neighborhood.
Being a white man walking around with his non-white wife gets looks of disgust by many people in many parts of the country. In one state in particular, those looks of disgust come from the same people who gleefully voted for Strom Thurmond every time, despite his procreating with one of his black servants.
A Sikh from India used to only fear being treated with disrespect for "wearing a towel on his head." Now he also has to fear being beaten by "well-meaning" citizens who can't tell the difference between him and a fundamentalist Arab Muslim.
Prejudice has the potential for great evil. The very meaning of the word is to pre-judge, meaning you've decided what they're all about before they utter a single word.
Postjudice makes much more sense. Judge based on what you know, not what you think you know.
It is fine to have prejudices, in the same way that it is fine to lust for someone that is not your spouse.
Acting on them is the problem. Being aware of them gives you the power to
not act on them. To choose to act on them anyway is the manifestation of evil.