Get over your whiteness: On political correctness
By samanthaorwell on June 12, 2008 - 12:54pm
READ FULL HERE:
http://thevancouvermanifesto.blogspot.com/2008/06/get-over-your-whitenes...
I was recently invited to put my opinion down on rabble.ca, a national progressive political website. In true VancouverManifesto style I have been prohibited to post due to my language being interpreted as racist, amongst other things.
When did we become SO hypersensitive and SO politically correct? Political correctness is just an attempt to "make pretty" real issues. Political correctness is an ideology in itself- an assumption that you are doing justice and correcting wrongs by stepping around the raw words that have been used in a derogatory way in the past towards marginalized groups. Pretending that constructions of race, gender and other ideologies do not exist do not do justice to those who were/are marginalized- it conceals the fact that racISM and sexISM DO exist. Not recognizing that there is difference and that people perceive eachother with such difference (whether we like it or not) also does not do justice.
