. In the tapestry that is “social justice” and its love child political correctness — no doubt from that floozy leftist ideology — those who are deemed guilty of breaking the rules set about by its policies are condemned to rash, disgusting generalizations, the gist of which is to assassinate one’s character in order to ignore well-founded criticism. This has, in recent years, gotten worse: for in today’s society, no one is safe from the gaping maw of PC. You hold beliefs that, for example, the Black Lives Matter movement does not address the real issues black Americans face? You dare show outrage that today’s quasi form of feminism has transitioned from its noble, indeed admirable beginnings to a movement who would rather picket the streets of our inner cities in the name of abolishing a non-existent “rape culture” instead of combating unholy husbands who, in the name of religion, deem it necessary to abuse their wives, both verbally and physically? Although statistics, available data and good old common sense is more often than not on your side, you will more than likely be labeled as a racist for your thoughts on the former and a misogynist for your thoughts on the latter. This is the true nature political correctness.
. Shriver has been attacked and, in an all-too-familiar fashion, has been labeled as a racist because a select few believed they were owed an explanation for the fate of a character in one of her novel (we have apparently transitioned from thought-policing to imagination-policing). Whether or not Shiver has a racist bone in her body is therefore irrelevant to these people. These “social justice worriers — whether by blockading the door from their fellow students who wish to hear their favorite political pundit talk on campus, or by simply yelling and screaming in hopes of drowning out reverse opinions — then strike a hard blow for free speech. The unlucky souls who would then dare to voice their own opinions, however sincere they may be, will then be ridiculed by their bigoted counterparts, ignorant by a vast majority of mainstream media, and have their opinions turn to dust among the midst of the “I’m offended, hug me” mindset.
. While I understand that perhaps your support for these concepts come from a good heart rather than party politics, it is in my humble opinion that political correctness-indeed the entire social justice movement altogether-are not worth saving.
