Whereas, from my POV, as long as people can smirk, I can usually tell the sincere from the insincere.
I'd rather them be bold enough in their -ism to state it in plain terms instead of couching in different words.
More and more... I think I don't want to hear it, and feel that tummy-roiling rush of stress hormones. I'd rather people not be bigots, of course, but if they are feel so horribly trammeled by social strictures that they don't use bigoted language, at least that reduces the incidence of other people hearing blatant bigotry and feeling slapped in the face.
And oh, don't get me started on hipster 'irony' such as hipster racism. I might never stop ranting and waving my arms. :)
You know my Happy Everything card? A coworker genially accused me of trying to be PC with it, which helped me to articulate what I'm trying to do with it, the difference between grudgingly including a diversity of concepts and genuinely wanting to.
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Date: 2012-01-05 03:58 pm (UTC)I'd rather them be bold enough in their -ism to state it in plain terms instead of couching in different words.
More and more... I think I don't want to hear it, and feel that tummy-roiling rush of stress hormones. I'd rather people not be bigots, of course, but if they are feel so horribly trammeled by social strictures that they don't use bigoted language, at least that reduces the incidence of other people hearing blatant bigotry and feeling slapped in the face.
And oh, don't get me started on hipster 'irony' such as hipster racism. I might never stop ranting and waving my arms. :)
You know my Happy Everything card? A coworker genially accused me of trying to be PC with it, which helped me to articulate what I'm trying to do with it, the difference between grudgingly including a diversity of concepts and genuinely wanting to.