redbird: closeup of me drinking tea, in a friend's kitchen (Default)
posted by [personal profile] redbird at 01:12pm on 2020-05-20
The other difference, I think, is that in the fantasy they're protecting ("America" and) themselves from dangerous strangers; in the reality, they're being asked to protect other people from themselves.

Typing the above, it occurs to me that, also, a lot of complaints about "political correctness" are about having to be polite and kind to everyone, even people they don't know and have been told are their inferiors.
eftychia: Photo of clouds shaped like an eye and arched eyebrow (sky-eye)
posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 01:14am on 2020-05-21
Good point. I'd not quite made that connection between what we're seeing and complaints about "PC".

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