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In reply to the discussion: Unpopular opinion: PC policing is going WAY TOO far. [View all]hunter
(40,884 posts)I've never felt any compulsion to measure my own words by any "politically correct" standard.
Whenever I've fucked up, and I do often, I might re-examine my own position and apologize.
Or not.
As an adult absurdly-strong-tall-blue-eyed-blond-haired-white-guy with a very hard-core-university-science education, I acknowledge my privilege.
My wife, almost in every way my opposite, size height, skin color, everything, she's had to work ten times as hard as I ever did for the same privileges, and she has. You can call her Medical Doctor. You can call her Big University Professor.
My own little sister is a similar sort. Fierce woman. So's my mom.
I'm the child of a matriarchal society. Any of my great grandmas, and back beyond, could've killed your own bad male ancestors. Maybe the survivors had good sense to run away, or maybe they just got lucky. Thrown off the family train. in a not so bad spot.
I succumbed and signed onto Facebook. Many of my family are still living in comfortable cluelessness. Acceptable to the oligarchy.
Sad.
Life is not fair. Libertarians in this U.S.A., especially the white privileged sort, are most frequently the "useful" idiots.