@paulg @i_contemplate_ Have you been reading Moldbug?
Political correctness is Victorian propriety with the variables changed.
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@Barbaric_Yawwp@paulg@i_contemplate_ I suspect he IS Moldbug.
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@paulg well, maybe more broadly, every culture has its pieties and taboosThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg except Victorian propriety was about Puritanism. This is about not reminding oppressed groups of their shitty societal treatment -
@ilovecomputers@paulg Like the Temperance movement, political correctness also springs from Puritan roots. It's the story of America.
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@paulg Neal Stephenson wrote about this quite a bit in his Diamond Age novelhttp://books.google.com/books?id=aAV6wV4Rn00C&pg=PA190&lpg=PA190&dq=diamond+age+victorian+hypocrisy&source=bl&ots=D3mP99gYi7&sig=9v-3pTojq540RTGqHDaP1LOYKhU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=vIobVJfvIcnHgwT8-4GACg&ved=0CB4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=diamond%20age%20victorian%20hypocrisy&f=false …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg Victorian propriety & political incorrectness are more similar: both about controlling/excluding the systemically disenfranchisedThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg so not a complete similarity, but I bet you'll get a lot of crap for this post which will prove your pointThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg Everything is everything else with the variables changed.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@lamentoid playing power games are we? tides can turn very swiftly. dont forget which people have and know how to use guns and which dont
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