Political Correctness.....

"...I'm standing here with someone who I have differences with, in terms of politics, precisely because I think all this has got to stop. This rage, resentment, hostility, intolerance. Above all, this 'with us or against us' certainty.

The Grand Canyon has opened up in our world, the fistula, the crack grows wider every day. Neither can hear a word that the other shrieks, and nor do they want to. While these armies and propagandists in the country wars clash, down below in the enormous space between the two sides, the people of the world try to get along with their lives, eternally baffled, bored, and betrayed by the horrible noises and explosions all around.

I think it is time for this toxic, binary, zero sum madness to stop before we destroy ourselves.

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I think one of the greatest human failings, is to prefer to be right, than to be effective. Political Correctness is always obsessed with thinking about how right it is than how effective it might be.

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I'm prepared to entertain the opportunity that Political correctness will bring us more tolerance and a better world. But I am not sure.


 ' One of the painful things of our time, is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision. Let doubt prevail' "

- Stephen Fry