The growth of the right-wing is not confined to a couple of murderous hicks but to murderous apparatuses of power that are growing all across the West. — StreetlightX

Your views about him were obvious even from the OP. — ssu

Women's studies and ethnic studies "have to go" - as ssu quoted JP above. — Izat So

Women's studies and ethnic studies "have to go" - as ssu quoted JP above. — Izat So

far more to the point, which was that people can criticize PC extremism while seeing value in PC overall, rather than hammering away at everything and anyone PC to the glee of the growing band of xenophobes and misogynists everywhere. — Izat So

there's a convolution. — Shamshir

It's doubtful that any realisation or evolution of the brain is dependent upon culture — Shamshir

If you could, do please elaborate on how women are emerging with their voices, as I don't see any difference from where they were before. — Shamshir

So as I was saying: nobody is seeking to shut down Feminist Studies departments. — ssu

If you read that article, it would basically be a "review" website, where the reviews are focused on a particular, anti-SJW perspective. — Terrapin Station

nobody is seeking to shut down Feminist Studies departments — ssu

Is it just the new buzzword to peddle the old under the guise of the new, like with 'bio' and 'organic? — Shamshir

what you see as a problem with PC extremism? Can you give an example? — ssu

There's simply a mismatch in Izat So's basic argument that people shouldn't talk about PC issues because...there's right-wing terrorism — ssu

the thread was called: "The "thing" about Political Correctness", not "Reason why right-wing terrorism is rising". — ssu

It seems to me that those concerned with the potential negative effects of Political Correctness to the extreme, such as Jordan Peterson and various pundits, ought to be far, far more concerned with a rise in rightwing extremism, and their unwitting contributions toward it in the broader public. — Izat So

it's not about leftists imposing PC culture and more about culture, in general, not dealing well with controversy. A problem that's fairly evident on many levels and not limited to PC — Echarmion

People want free speech without concequences, apparently. — StreetlightX

Jobs/careers lost, ostracization, black listing, etc. — Terrapin Station

Extreme PC is relatively rare, in my experience, and I can't understand why anyone would be offended with social justice, unless they are in some sense feeling threatened by the rising fortunes of women and minorities. I have no problem with a charter of rights. I don't think people should be fired from their jobs because they lapse into assholeness from time to time however. And the evidence shows the right is more dangerous than the extreme PC front. Has Antifa shot anyone yet? — Izat So

good luck and good bye — I like sushi

How the "can't" is effectively enforced — Terrapin Station

Again, notice the chart here. What it tells that acts of terrorism were more frequent also in the US earlier than now: — ssu

↪Maw So? Do you mean to say that the above cartoon is offensive but okay because it doesn’t include you? Are you bolstering my position on purpose or was it a slip up on your part? — I like sushi

I too, consider overreactions to equine homophobia to be an existential threat to Western Civilisation — StreetlightX

Pretty much everything Maw said. — Maw

B-b-b-b-ut I can't make tasteless jokes anymore and that's the most important thing! — StreetlightX

the right is more dangerous than the extreme PC front — Izat So

terrorism isn't on the rise in the long run — ssu

First of all I don't think that the extreme right is on the rise — ssu

the simple deduction from those pictures is in quite in line with your reasoning with JP — ssu

What gives rise to the alt right it is increasing inequality combined with a propensity of those who have lost economic security and social status for scapegoating. — Izat So

The rise of the far right is due to the extreme left [extreme PC, presumably] enabling them. — I like sushi

Income disparity has always led to identity politics on the the right and on the left. — I like sushi

Pundits' concerns with extreme PC inadvertently feed the alt right beast. — Izat So

What a heavy PC tilt does is give voice to the extreme ends of the societal discontent. — I like sushi

Since the alt right is far more basic threat to democracy than extreme political correctness, pundits should spend more time warning people of the dangers of the alt right than they do the extremes of political correctness and inadvertently feeding the beast. — Izat So

I said EXTREME not merely PC — I like sushi

Pepe is a joke meme meant to poke fun at people on the left. It is spewed across the internet all the time and NOT racist. — I like sushi

it appears you don’t want to budge in the slightest or understand that I have answered your OP — I like sushi

What gives rise to the alt right it is increasing inequality combined with a propensity of those who have lost economic security and social status for scapegoating. — Izat So

It's not so much economic inequality as it is fear of economic inequality. We're no longer in recession, but the market failures of the last decade (eg: the 2008 eal-estate bubble) have caused many to doubt the path we're on (and both sides tend to disagree about what path we're actually on, let alone should be on). — VagabondSpectre

if extreme political correctness feeds the beast... — VagabondSpectre

Pundits' concerns with extreme PC inadvertently feed the alt right beast. — Izat So

If the alt-right would not exist without extreme political correctness to react to and provide their emotional justification, would we be better off without extreme political correctness? — VagabondSpectre

Look, you’re guilty of the kind of thing I’m talking about. You want to make me the enemy and so read what I write as saying something I’ve not actually said. — I like sushi

• What gives rise to the alt right it is increasing inequality combined with a propensity of those who have lost economic security and social status for scapegoating.

• Pundits' concerns with extreme PC inadvertently feed the alt right beast.

• Since the alt right is far more basic threat to democracy than extreme political correctness, pundits should spend more time warning people of the dangers of the alt right than they do the extremes of political correctness and inadvertently feeding the beast.

I’ve only talked about two points: the effect of the internet and extremists pushing PC speech.

I certainly don’t regard these as the only factors worth considering and that there is any one underlying factor that is apparent in every nation — I like sushi

The rise of the far right is due to the extreme left enabling them. — I like sushi

That is that Trump says plenty of idiotic things yet people are still trying to construe some phrase of wording as being either ‘racist’ or ‘fascist’ when it is clearly, at best, a stretch. — I like sushi

"The rich Right" knows what side of the bread their butter is on, and they work consistently and effectively to keep the butter as thick as possible. They are pretty successful. I doubt if "the rich Right" spends any time at all worrying about "the left", especially the pronominal left that is just a place holder for some discontented college students...etc. — Bitter Crank

Inside and outside the university. It's unfortunately human nature to want to control other people in many different ways. — Terrapin Station

Do people really feel so oppressed by the stigma against making racist jokes or their refusal to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple that they would fear PC more than being shot up in a church or mosque? There's the sense of entitlement talking. — Izat So

I don't know if I really understand any sentence you wrote there, and I'm not sure what any of it has to do with my comment. — Terrapin Station

How much of philosophy is left over once part of it becomes literature-mysticism-politics and the other part of it becomes science? Others who know more might illuminate me here, but it seems to me that obsessing over language is largely what's left over.