Yes. I am pretty much the last person to say OMG Political Correctness is Ruining Everything because really, I live my life by the principles of PC-ness-- i.e., do not say anything to offend unintentionally, and if you do offend intentionally, do not try to blame the person who's offended-- but OMG some people are waaaay too politically correct. By which I mean, look, if someone's not trying to be offensive, jumping all over them for inadvertently offending you is not really going to help your cause, right? I'm not saying "some classes of people are oversensitive", I am saying that many people in the _____-Acceptance communities are way too keyed into You Can't Say That, to the point that it's extremely difficult to actually have a productive conversation that really addresses the underlying causes of many of the things we're discussing.
Because, the thing is, the prevailing pressures of society make it almost impossible to say "The crap we're being sold, as a society, as food, is non-nutritive and is making us fat and sick," without it coming across, given the prevailing winds, as "Fat people make poor food choices and that's why they're disgusting." It should be possible to separate those debates, because they're not about the same things. But it's exceedingly difficult, and so most communities that exist to debate the issue cannot afford to address any issues beyond the basic premise of the second one. There's just no room for that first one in there. Which is a damn shame.
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I'm not saying "some classes of people are oversensitive", I am saying that many people in the _____-Acceptance communities are way too keyed into You Can't Say That, to the point that it's extremely difficult to actually have a productive conversation that really addresses the underlying causes of many of the things we're discussing.
Because, the thing is, the prevailing pressures of society make it almost impossible to say "The crap we're being sold, as a society, as food, is non-nutritive and is making us fat and sick," without it coming across, given the prevailing winds, as "Fat people make poor food choices and that's why they're disgusting."
It should be possible to separate those debates, because they're not about the same things. But it's exceedingly difficult, and so most communities that exist to debate the issue cannot afford to address any issues beyond the basic premise of the second one. There's just no room for that first one in there. Which is a damn shame.