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Originally Posted by Saqe
I'd raise two points here. First, the rise of the PC culture (over sensitivity, call it whatever you want) is real and at least in US peaked around 2015 in the college campuses. I don't think it's reasonable to say it doesn't have any part in Sportsnet's decision to fire DC.
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“Political correctness” has been a conservative dog whistle for 30 years. Whatever “peak” has be subscribed by the commentators that continue to drive it’s existence as a real and dangerous thing.
The fact is, people just don’t want to face criticism for actions that were ok once upon a time. And who, naturally, levies that criticism? Young people, who are also naturally more progressive. Just like our parents were compared to their parents, and so on.
I think blaming PC culture, or cancel culture, or internet warriors, or whatever, it’s all the same and it’s all meaningless. People need to assign blame to a distasteful “other” instead of coming to terms that views they may hold are no longer in-step with society. You’ve got people blaming these “groups,” the CBC, Trudeau supporters, even people who bought a Chris Brown album (lol). Inventing someone to blame doesn’t seem a little mad to you? That, or they’re twisting to excuse the comment, it’s not the definition of racism, he meant immigrants who leech off society, actually immigrants don’t know who Don Cherry is so it’s ok, actually he meant all Canadians, actually he meant Scottish Canadians....
It’s no so hard to see that the problem isn’t the made up “PC culture” but instead people who can’t be honest with themselves and can’t stand the idea of reasonable, normal people disagreeing with them. So they invent a boogeyman instead.