Has PC gone too far?

[patrice]

48. Talking about your bias, admitting that it IS bias (which is practically unavoidable, btw) IS consid

erate and respectful. It creates opportunities to talk about EXPERIENCES compared to acquired ILLUSIONS (media, cerrtain churches etc.). It also creates opportunities for others to listen and maybe even watch, or at least read. ALL good opportunities for cognitive development.

Bias is inherent to what we call "knowledge", so the questions are about how much bias is valid, empirically grounded, and how much is fabrication, not valid in terms of experience. The thing about experience is that it can be FULL of confusion, negative emotions, and outright LIES, but the only way to separate the food from the BULLSHIT is to go ahead and go there (without killing one another). And it is MY bias that if we could authentically do that, a bunch of us are going to discover that the differences in our experiences that we thought were so important aren't really and the differences in our experiences that are in fact important won't be so god damned THREATENED, and hence paranoid, by all of that other stuff that no one is making an effort to understand in the first place, so it's getting turned into hate by those who actually DO hate all of us.

Differences, authentic differences, can be a good thing, because they require clarity and strength, which are the opposite of ignorance and paranoia.

Pardon my