See, the problem with folks like madanthonywayne and others who support Trump yet claim not to be racist et al... is that they can't comprehend the amount of sheer privilege being a white, middle class male gives them... WASP's are even worse (White Anglo-Saxon Protestant) in that they have, quite literally, nothing that detracts from their perceived right to have it all.
Wonderful. In one sentence you reveal your own racism against Caucasians, your ethnic prejudice against people with English ancestry and your religious prejudice against protestants.
(Didn't you tell us in another thread that you are a Methodist? That's a protestant denomination that originated in England.)
It comes down to entitlement... plain and simple.
You feel entitled to announce your own hostility for whites of English descent who are protestants. You seem to feel that you enjoy some kind of immunity for offending people that you don't like, while they should be allowed no opportunity at all to offend any of the things you embrace or believe in. How nice that must be for you.
Your doing that is an expression of your own feeling of privilege. Your being a moderator just adds to it, since if your enemies anger you they are gone, banned, while you feel freedom to anger anyone you dislike and there's not a damn thing they can do about it.
That's what "political correctness" is all about, the feeling of freedom to attack and even to silence political enemies (because their side is
bad), while those political enemies have no freedom to challenge your side (because you're the voice of
good). The problem with that is the self-serving assumptions that are being baked in and used to justify hypocrisy.
When that kind of self-serving stacking-the-deck becomes institutionalized, when it is is extended to university classrooms, to the news media and to public discourse in general, that's "political correctness". It isn't unlike how expressions of disloyalty to the king, blasphemy or religious heresy were treated in past centuries. Nazi Germany and communist states acted the same way. It's anti-intellectual to its core, the enemy of free and open thought and inquiry. It's even profoundly anti-liberal, in the true sense of 'liberal'. That's why many of us oppose political correctness, and quite justifiably I think.
What would help these kinds of people would be to experience true need
One of the big reasons why Trump won is that the white working class just got tired of hearing smug gentry-liberals or know-it-all twenty somethings tell them about all the "privilege" that they enjoy, while their jobs dissappear and they struggle to keep their homes and to feed their kids.
