I was trying to avoid buzzwords that have become meaningless, but yes, that phenomenon was one of the origins of the term "political correctness" although originally in an ironic sense from within the movement. (Who took it from more serious use in other contexts.)
It can be hard for a movement to be driven both by abstract ideas *and* by political pragmatism, but in the long run, the divisiveness of "political purity"simply isn't *useful*. Whether it's white middle-class socialists tone-policing Black Lives Matter or whether it's minority activists blaming white women (but not white men?) for electing Trump, or whether it's NoDAPL upset that the inauguration has distracted attention from escalating violence, or any of the other myriad complaints. It isn't that they aren't true, or that they don't come from the heart, but in the long run they aren't *useful* to advance *any* of the agendas in question. And more than anything else, we need to develop an understanding of the connectedness of our issues so that we learn how to support each other even when we're focusing on different things.
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Date: 2017-01-22 07:53 pm (UTC)It can be hard for a movement to be driven both by abstract ideas *and* by political pragmatism, but in the long run, the divisiveness of "political purity"simply isn't *useful*. Whether it's white middle-class socialists tone-policing Black Lives Matter or whether it's minority activists blaming white women (but not white men?) for electing Trump, or whether it's NoDAPL upset that the inauguration has distracted attention from escalating violence, or any of the other myriad complaints. It isn't that they aren't true, or that they don't come from the heart, but in the long run they aren't *useful* to advance *any* of the agendas in question. And more than anything else, we need to develop an understanding of the connectedness of our issues so that we learn how to support each other even when we're focusing on different things.
You may link, if you like. This post was purely a DW/LJ one, not on my Alpennia blog.