I don't know if you're looking for any commentary or discussion about this, but know that first of all, I completely agree with you on all points. And I've been working hard to take what I've learned on the internet and apply it to my real life, and it's really hard--and on top of that, in part because I live at a conservative boarding school, I tend to be the only person doing the callouts.
I'm sure you've seen this post about call outs and how careful one has to be in doing it--making sure to turn it into an educational experience, so you don't get that focus on the personal. And that is probably the hardest thing EVER to do, because when you're called out on something, you're embarrassed and it FEELS like an attack. (Another good example is this video that essentially makes the same point, though I have waaaay too much of an intellectual crush on Jay Smooth to not share it with you.)
But like this post explains, you have to do the call out--because if you just sit there in silence, nothing gets DONE and the cultural constructs that build worlds in which people get killed for who they are. And if we can't convince our friends of that, is there any hope whatsoever of convincing the people out there who aren't?
And you basically said all of this. Just... yes. Sometimes we need the PC police, because if it doesn't start on that level, it can end in a much more drastic and terrible place--and that is not the world I want to grow up in.
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I'm sure you've seen this post about call outs and how careful one has to be in doing it--making sure to turn it into an educational experience, so you don't get that focus on the personal. And that is probably the hardest thing EVER to do, because when you're called out on something, you're embarrassed and it FEELS like an attack. (Another good example is this video that essentially makes the same point, though I have waaaay too much of an intellectual crush on Jay Smooth to not share it with you.)
But like this post explains, you have to do the call out--because if you just sit there in silence, nothing gets DONE and the cultural constructs that build worlds in which people get killed for who they are. And if we can't convince our friends of that, is there any hope whatsoever of convincing the people out there who aren't?
And you basically said all of this. Just... yes. Sometimes we need the PC police, because if it doesn't start on that level, it can end in a much more drastic and terrible place--and that is not the world I want to grow up in.