Populist Correctness: The New PC Culture of Brexit & Trump

[DurableDude]

Very good analysis here about the rise of the "Alt-Right" as perma-offended, easily triggered, snowflakes.

political correctness is dead. Donald Trump and Brexit have sent it to its grave. You can say whatever you like now, offend whoever you like!

Well, not quite.

From the gender-neutral ashes of political correctness a new sort of PC culture has risen. You could call it populist correctness: a virulent policing of language and stifling of debate that is rapidly and perniciously insinuating itself into daily life in Trump’s America and Brexit Britain.

Populist correctness is the smearing and silencing of points of view by labelling them “elitist” – and therefore at odds with the will of the people and the good of the country. Take, for example, the rhetoric around “remoaners”, which can be summed up as “the people have spoken, so the rest of you should shut up”. Opposing Brexit, Britain’s tabloids tell us almost daily, is unpatriotic and undemocratic.

The right prides itself on being straight-talking, on calling a spade a spade, but when it comes to calling a Nazi a Nazi or a racist a racist – well then, things are more vague. They are the “alt-right”, please. Use unacceptable terminology and they will get very angry indeed.

https://www.theguardian.com/comment...s-new-pc-culture-trump-america-brexit-britain

Have a read see what you think. I think she makes a few good points take example our forum for example a lot of posters here seem to active seek out outrage porn to get angry at leftists liberals SJWs Globalists miggrants muslims etc.,

The alt-right to me seem to me a mirror image of the thing they claim to hate.

 

[bushman505]

 

[DurableDude]

I don't know whats this means.

have a read of article it's a good piece whether you agree or not.

 

[bushman505]

I don't know whats this means.

have a read of article it's a good piece whether you agree or not.

It dosent mean anything. It's just a funny picture of Anderson Silva.

 

[DurableDude]

It dosent mean anything. It's just a funny picture of Anderson Silva.

that i can get behind.

 

[uppercutbus]

political correctness is dead. Donald Trump and Brexit have sent it to its grave. You can say whatever you like now, offend whoever you like!

Well, not quite.

After Brexit nothing changed, the laws are the same as before, you will still get charged for saying anything critical of Muslims/Islam/Immigration.

UK is very much left despite voting for Brexit, by that I mean the government, laws and media are the same as before.

 

[Neil'sMagny]

Liberal speakers aren't getting their lectures shut down by mob violence. Liberals are burning cars and beating people up in the street without consequence. What conservatives do you see doing similar things? Where was all of the violence in 2008 when Obama got elected? I'll concede that I can't remember every event that ever happened, but I don't recall any rioting.

 

[DurableDude]

After Brexit nothing changed, the laws are the same as before, you will still get charged for saying anything critical of Muslims/Islam/Immigration.

UK is very much left despite voting for Brexit, by that I mean the government, laws and media are the same as before.

I think it more in terms of general people attitude to others. Hate crimes have increased and people seemed to say what they want now regardless of law.

it has become normal to hate immigrants.

 

[Son of Jamin]

Get back to me when there are colleges courses about Jewish or Black tears, when MTV does a video called Asian people, when there are "browness studies" at schools, when celebrities can wish the death upon non-whites without losing their occupations.

Get back to me when media starts censoring crimes committed by white people.

Get back to me when politicians stops lying and saying that white people (in Sweden) are guilty of most rapes.

Get back to me when not only white people can be guilty of cultural appropriation.

 

[FIMN]

Liberals are burning cars and beating people up in the street without consequence.

What % of" liberals" are doing this? 0.2%? Less?

I'm really curious to hear realistic estimates, because this seems like an absurd characterisation of the other sides views with the sole intention of shutting down debate with the 99.8%+ of "liberals" whose views you don't agree with.

The answer I'm looking for is a % figure by the way.

Also, don't remember any riots relating to brexit. I do remember a political assassination though.

 

[FIMN]

After Brexit nothing changed, the laws are the same as before, you will still get charged for saying anything critical of Muslims/Islam/Immigration.

Patently untrue. None of those things are illegal.

 

[Vitor CroCop]

Ok. I read the whole thing. And I have to be honest.....she's right. There are plenty of examples of right wingers being total pussies. Especially lately where ANYTHING challenging Trump is met with cultish like retaliation. But at least they aren't breaking windows and burning shit down because some wants to debunk the gender pay gap. I voted for trump and while conservatards can be annoying, they are nowhere even close to as bad as the libcucks lately. Not even close. And ever since liberals have decided to side with Islam...they can suck my fat dick. Give me freedom motherfuckers. REAL freedom. Freedom to buy whatever gun I want, do whatever drug I want, fuck whoever I want, burn whatever I want (flags included), say whatever the fuck I want, and listen to whoever the fuck I want without some violent triggered running up and crying about how offended he is and then pepperspraying my face. Murica motherfuckers.

 

[uppercutbus]

Just an example, Child bride news = librul left retards label it "outrage porn" and nazis if you don't agree with it. Then claim we are the assholes misusing the term nazi.

That same song is why people chose Brexit/Trump

 

[uppercutbus]

Patently untrue. None of those things are illegal.

UK has those hate speech laws that US doesn't.

http://www.breitbart.com/london/201...-work-offending-muslims-police-facebook-page/

US > UK

 

[nostradumbass]

Not taken seriously =/= silenced. If they're silenced, then how does all of the entertainment industry, nearly all the news media, professors, students, any other rioters or protesters pull it off?

"You can't call a nazi a nazi or a racist a racist". You can and do, but nobody takes it seriously because you call everyone a nazi and a racist and have been for a long time. These are adult people who are in fantasy land running around hunting nazis and klansmen in 2017 America. I just smile and nod, the same way I do when my sister's 3 year old cooks me an invisible breakfast on a plastic plate in her fischer price kitchen.

 

[FinalFight]

Also, don't remember any riots relating to brexit. I do remember a political assassination though.

Far-right terrorist Thomas Mair jailed for life for Jo Cox murder

An extreme rightwing terrorist has been sentenced to prison for the rest of his life for the murder of the Labour MP Jo Cox after a seven-day Old Bailey trial in which he made no effort to defend himself.

Thomas Mair repeatedly shot and stabbed Cox in an attack during the EU referendum campaign in June. While attacking her he was saying: “This is for Britain”, “keep Britain independent”, and “Britain first”, the court heard.

The judge said Mair would have to serve a whole-life sentence due to the “exceptional seriousness” of the offence: a murder committed to advance a cause associated with Nazism.

Mr Justice Wilkie refused Mair’s request to address the court, saying he had already had opportunities to explain himself, and had not done so.

“It is evident from your internet searches that your inspiration is not love of country or your fellow citizens, it is an admiration for Nazis and similar anti-democratic white supremacist creeds,” Wilkie said. “Our parents’ generation made huge sacrifices to defeat those ideas and values in the second world war. What you did … betrays those sacrifices.”

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/nov/23/thomas-mair-found-guilty-of-jo-cox-murder

 

[Neil'sMagny]

What % of" liberals" are doing this? 0.2%? Less?

I'm really curious to hear realistic estimates, because this seems like an absurd characterisation of the other sides views with the sole intention of shutting down debate with the 99.8%+ of "liberals" whose views you don't agree with.

The answer I'm looking for is a % figure by the way.

Also, don't remember any riots relating to brexit. I do remember a political assassination though.

Does the percentage matter? The percentage should be 0% of people getting beat up for attending a conservative's lecture. No one is getting beat up when they go to a Rachael Maddow speaking engagement. No one is stopping liberals from expressing their points-of-view, most of the media is run by liberals. Racist comments from minorities aren't the ones being deleted on social media. Left-leaning YouTubers with "extreme" views aren't the ones under attack by the media. The left isn't getting silenced, their media outlets outnumber conservatives 10:1.

 

[FIMN]

UK has those hate speech laws that US doesn't.

http://www.breitbart.com/london/201...-work-offending-muslims-police-facebook-page/

US > UK

Your initial claim was that it's illegal to criticise Islam and immigration, which was the factual error I corrected.

The US incarcerates more people than any other country in the world including China and Iran, and has laws against crossing the road. Enjoy your freedom you dumbass.

 

[uppercutbus]

Your initial claim was that it's illegal to criticise Islam and immigration, which was the factual error I corrected.

The US incarcerates more people than any other country in the world including China and Iran, and has laws against crossing the road. Enjoy your freedom you dumbass.

Label "criticism" hate speech and the result is the same. They even jailed this guy for a dumb joke

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...ed-after-teaching-girlfriends-dog-to-perform/

Don't tell me they are reliable in what counts. I would take US freedom of speech over what UK has.

 

[FIMN]

Does the percentage matter? The percentage should be 0% of people getting beat up for attending a conservative's lecture. No one is getting beat up when they go to a Rachael Maddow speaking engagement. No one is stopping liberals from expressing their points-of-view, most of the media is run by liberals. Racist comments from minorities aren't the ones being deleted on social media. Left-leaning YouTubers with "extreme" views aren't the ones under attack by the media. The left isn't getting silenced, their media outlets outnumber conservatives 10:1.

The fact you've missed my point is related to the reason you can't actually answer my question.

"Conservatives bomb abortion clinics" would be a ludicrous, pointless comment in discussing political matters like this because 99%+ don't do that. It would be an easy way to not have to actually deal with the arguments made by people I don't agree with, but it would also show a myopic and blinkered view of politics. Which you apparently have.

Deal with the arguments/topics presented in the thread and stop being hysterical. Nobody is silencing you, so speak freely