{"id":365920,"date":"2018-06-19T05:27:41","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T04:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/coercion-lewrockwell\/"},"modified":"2018-06-19T05:27:41","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T04:27:41","slug":"coercion-lewrockwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/coercion-lewrockwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Coercion – LewRockwell"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It\u2019s worth checking out the YouTube video of this year\u2019s\u00a0semi-annual Munk Debate<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0held in Toronto this spring. The proposition at hand:\u00a0Be it resolved, what you call political correctness, I call progress<\/em>\u2026. For the pro position: Michael Eric Dyson, sociology prof from Georgetown U, and\u00a0New York Times\u00a0<\/em>columnist Michelle Goldberg; on the con side, Jordan Peterson, psychologist and U of Toronto prof, and Stephen Fry, British actor and screenwriter.<\/p>\n

The debate quickly beat a path to identity politics, which make up the actual substance of PC, itself only a method of conveying the substance. PC acts as a filter for sifting out thought that doesn\u2019t conform to orthodox ideology, and for punishing those who dare to express the filtered-out ideas. So, PC only allows for a narrow range of expressed opinion on identity politics. PC is literally thought-policing. It\u2019s hard to imagine anyone being in favor of that, which is exactly why PC behavior is so odious to those of us who value free speech.<\/p>\n

The orthodox view in identity politics these days is that \u201cwhite male cis-heterosexual patriarchal privilege\u201d is responsible for the discontents of women and \u201cpeople-of-color\u201d \u2014 a squishy, mischievous category which obviously doesn\u2019t count Chinese grad students at Harvard or the Asian-Indians in the Silicon Valley C-suites \u2014 and demands reparations of one kind or another.<\/p>\n


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\n<\/span>Mr. Peterson laid it out nicely: identity politics assigns everyone to ethnic, racial, and sexual groups, and all the human relations among them amount to never-ending battles for political power. Nothing else matters. Individuals especially don\u2019t matter, only the group….<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It\u2019s worth checking out the YouTube video of this year\u2019s\u00a0semi-annual Munk Debate\u00a0held in Toronto this spring. The proposition at hand:\u00a0Be it resolved, what you call political correctness, I call progress\u2026. For the pro position: Michael Eric Dyson, sociology prof from Georgetown U, and\u00a0New York Times\u00a0columnist Michelle Goldberg; on the con side, Jordan Peterson, psychologist and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-365920","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}