Are you Politically Correct if you say the "right thing" but you don't think it?
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September 22nd, 2015
Recent comments in another thread got me to thinking.
In Atlas Shrugged government officials take John Galt prisoner and threaten to kill him if he does not say and do what they want him to say and do. in the context of the story they want him to stop being Politically Incorrect, and start being Politically Correct.
Pragmatically, in order to avoid death, he says he will say anything they want him to.
But the government men become enraged. They not only want him to say it, they want him to believe it. They are murderously frustrated because they know that he does not believe it.
Thus, in their opinion, he was still Politically Incorrect, even if he said and did the “right thing”.
Are you Politically Correct if you say it, but you don’t think it?
Or does that make you Politically Incorrect?
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If you state one thing while believing the opposite, not only are you politically correct. You are in fact a politician, and more likely than not a ‘successful’ politician.
There is no such thing as “Politically Correct”. That is a phrase adopted by those who think disadvantaged people are too sensitive, and that people of privilege should not have to take the opinion of unprivileged people into account when speaking.
It is a phrase of those who also claim “reverse discrimination” when they discount the privilege that has been accorded them by accident of birth.
No one asks anyone else to be “Politically Correct”. People ask to be treated with respect. I would rather people not express respect against their will, but rather to speak their own truth and then accept how society judges them.
Your reference to Atlas Shrugged does not fit well into the reality of modern American society. In your example, it is people in power demanding one thing, while in the case of underprivileged people seeking respect, it is a matter of asking those in power for civility.
What you are is a liar. You may even be lying to yourself. Now, keeping your thoughts to yourself is OK, but mouthing something you don’t believe not so much.
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