"Weaponized Sensitivity"

[HuckleberryFun]

Below is a link to a New York Times opinion piece by a white author who dared to write a novel from the perspective of people of color and was pilloried for it ("how dare he!"). He says that while the Right used to be the wing of enforced conformity, it's the Left that now uses "weaponized sensitivity to insensitively stamp out all who disagree" (I'm paraphrasing). As someone who has been on the wrong side of the PC Police a couple of times I could relate to this. I also like to read good literary fiction by authors that I don't think should be hobbled by "you can't write that because you are the wrong race/gender" rules. This is one aspect of a larger and worrisome trend. What do you think?

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/23/opinion/will-the-left-survive-the-millennials.html

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[Andy54Hawken]

I think that if you are a good writer , you can write anything and have it turn out good.
Robert A. Heinlein wrote many a novel with a female or person of color in the leading role.

But then I am not a fan of censorship or of folks saying "You can't do that." , for whatever dumbazz reason they think of.
So maybe I'm not a good person to ask ... LOL
Andy

 

[Stomper]

I think too many people don't think, and they look for excuses to be "offended" and "act up" to give their menial lives a self-sense of purpose.

 

[Medic!]

No more fiction than the narrative BLM claims is fact.

 

[Pops1911]

Weaponized sensitivity is true. Everyone can be butt hurt about anything any more. Similar to one's 2 year old pitching a fit to get their own way. Should this trend continue I am afraid that we will be able only to converse with our own self. That's prolly why you see so many old guys muttering to themselves. [guilty] LOL

 

[Stomper]

We call them....

 

[albin25]

Many have become so desensitized to even their surroundings and so ignorant of the world's ways, that they are unable to form their own opinions. They rely on the Media and "leaders" to tell them what they feel, how to think. and what to do. Their demands for sensitivity from others by being insensitive to others, demonstrates only their insensitivity.
They are a "herd" and can be manipulated like livestock. We could call them "sheep"...but that would be unfair to actual sheep.

 

[The Heretic]

Many have become so desensitized to even their surroundings and so ignorant of the world's ways, that they are unable to form their own opinions. They rely on the Media and "leaders" to tell them what they feel, how to think. and what to do. Their demands for sensitivity from others by being insensitive to others, demonstrates only their insensitivity.
They are a "herd" and can be manipulated like livestock. We could call them "sheep"...but that would be unfair to actual sheep.

Both sides of the aisle are sheep - they just follow different herders

 

[BlackRyder]

Whenever I hear about someone attacking an artist, musician, writer, etc.. for "appropriation" I get really, really mad. Without "appropriation" we wouldn't have had Elvis, Debussy, Brazilian Funk, Jamaican Ska, British Ska, M.I.A., Eminem, or any of the art and fashion trends of the early 2000's. Creative endeavors depend upon the cross pollination of ideas and cultures, and I liken people who accuse artists of appropriation, who say that they can't use any ideas that aren't from their own culture, to those who were against interracial marriage. This whole anti-appropriation thing is nothing less than intellectual apartheid, hiding in the guise of cultural sensitivity. Eff that noise.

 

[The Heretic]

My general rule in life is to:



This usually means ignoring almost everybody, sometimes even myself

 

[Mark W.]

J.K. Rowling is not a Wizard nor a 10 year old boy and she seamed to have done a pretty good job telling a story that has generated over 1 billion dollars fr her alone not including the thousands (if not millions) of other people to generate wealth off the books she wrote. Daniel Radcliffe made 110 million.

 

[Goosebrown]

Both sides of the aisle are sheep - they just follow different herders

I follow a different Herters... 147 gr 308 Herters to be exact. In the battle pack.

 

[Doc In UPlace]

There's a sufficient lack of tolerance for opposing viewpoints on all ends of the ideological spectrum.

No one group holds the exclusive use license to believe they alone hold the correct viewpoint.

If anyone thinks otherwise perhaps they belong to one of those groups, too.

 

[Stomper]

The issue today is everyone seems to have forgotten to disagree agreeably, as well as legitimately reason together to find the common ground that "each side" can accept.... empathy is sorely lacking these days.

 

[clearconscience]

You can't have an opinion on someone else unless your the minority, then you are free to judge uncontrollably.

I read a book years ago call "Black like me" it was essentially the same difference. A white man living as a black man for 6 weeks to see what the difference was. This was done in 1959 at the height of racial tensions.

It was a good book.

But I think it was the hatred of white people that has passed down generations that has kept racism alive. Not actual racism.
That hatred, grief, and need for reparations has been the only thing passed down for generations and keeping the ghettos ghettos.
It's slavery of the mind, kept in place by the people themselves.
The need to be held down by "the man" that has long passed and they have failed to realize they are "the man" keeping themselves oppressed.

 

[Stomper]

There was a mindset instilled by the slave owners that set the slaves against each other, i.e. "ratting out" a rival, striving (at the expense of others) to become the "foreman", actually developing a hatred for the other slaves and doing ANYTHING to be "the one" holding the whip and doing the "master's bidding. Some of the MOST cruel task-masters were indeed black slaves (and a few former slaves). It has destroyed that sub-culture ever since... "black on black" crime accounts for a HUGE disproportional amount of the crime stats across all catalogues.

It was a VERY effective method for the "few" to control the "many", and if you stop to THINK about it, and look around... it's now being employed (large scale) on society at large via MSM and Pop-culture, and it's slowly becoming more & more effective at an expotential pace.

 

[HuckleberryFun]

Just like the Jews who collaborated in helping send their fellows to the gas chambers, or the imperial French & British use of pliable elites to rule their colonies.

 

[Stomper]

Just like the Jews who collaborated in helping send their fellows to the gas chambers, or the imperial French & British use of pliable elites to rule their colonies.

Jews LITERALLY like George Soros...

 

[clearconscience]

He's the puppet master.

He's funding those groups like BLM

 

[PaulB47]

It's not enough to ignore the idiots. We need to laugh at them.