Dialectic
Sep 10th, 2004, 02:29 AM
This is a response I gave to ABC in this thread:
http://thefighting44s.com/discussion/viewtopic.php?t=775&start=45
I feel that the point I make here is a very important one, especially with regard to the way we are perceived and the ways in which we treat one another here, so I'm re-posting it.
You know ABC, I'd been wanting to point out something about you and the other "purists" for a while, but I hadn't found the perfect time until now.
You and all the rest like you are P.C. sons of bitches.
Why?
This is your stance: "You can't possibly understand me!! You're not me, you'll never be me!!! You can read about me, you can empathize, you can sympathize, but fuck you, but you'll never really understand because you're not me!! So you can't judge me. You have no damn right to judge me 'cause you don't know where I come from and what I've been through. Only I can judge me, 'cause only I know the inside of me, and only I have the right to define myself ON MY OWN TERMS."
That's EXACTLY what political correctness stands for. There is no good or bad or right or wrong or absolute understanding, because we're always dealing with cultural contexts, and what can be understood one way by one person can be understood in a complete other way by another person, and no one is "right" except from within his/ her own viewpoint or context.
That's a pretty adolescent-sounding rant, isn't it? I guess we can't judge the Nazis. Or the Japanese at Nanking. Or the White slavers. Or the CCBs. 'Cause that's what you're saying bro. We can never understand a Nazi or a CCB, 'cause we're not Nazis or CCBs, so how can we really judge them?
And this is why post-modernism, or political-correctness, is seen from an integral viewpoint as "mid-level" or "adolescent" rationality. It has moved beyond the early reason of pure judgemental classifications, and acknowledges cultural contexts, but then it risks trapping itself and throwing a tantrum and sounding really self-centered and narcissistic. It has yet to reach a "mature" stage of reason which can acknowledge deeper and shallower (more and less inclusive) understanding.
So FUCK YOU, you P.C. whore. You don't understand what I or any of the mods say worth shit, much less the values and vision of the Fighting44s. But we understand you.
http://thefighting44s.com/discussion/viewtopic.php?t=775&start=45
I feel that the point I make here is a very important one, especially with regard to the way we are perceived and the ways in which we treat one another here, so I'm re-posting it.
You know ABC, I'd been wanting to point out something about you and the other "purists" for a while, but I hadn't found the perfect time until now.
You and all the rest like you are P.C. sons of bitches.
Why?
This is your stance: "You can't possibly understand me!! You're not me, you'll never be me!!! You can read about me, you can empathize, you can sympathize, but fuck you, but you'll never really understand because you're not me!! So you can't judge me. You have no damn right to judge me 'cause you don't know where I come from and what I've been through. Only I can judge me, 'cause only I know the inside of me, and only I have the right to define myself ON MY OWN TERMS."
That's EXACTLY what political correctness stands for. There is no good or bad or right or wrong or absolute understanding, because we're always dealing with cultural contexts, and what can be understood one way by one person can be understood in a complete other way by another person, and no one is "right" except from within his/ her own viewpoint or context.
That's a pretty adolescent-sounding rant, isn't it? I guess we can't judge the Nazis. Or the Japanese at Nanking. Or the White slavers. Or the CCBs. 'Cause that's what you're saying bro. We can never understand a Nazi or a CCB, 'cause we're not Nazis or CCBs, so how can we really judge them?
And this is why post-modernism, or political-correctness, is seen from an integral viewpoint as "mid-level" or "adolescent" rationality. It has moved beyond the early reason of pure judgemental classifications, and acknowledges cultural contexts, but then it risks trapping itself and throwing a tantrum and sounding really self-centered and narcissistic. It has yet to reach a "mature" stage of reason which can acknowledge deeper and shallower (more and less inclusive) understanding.
So FUCK YOU, you P.C. whore. You don't understand what I or any of the mods say worth shit, much less the values and vision of the Fighting44s. But we understand you.