HN's Political Correctness Blog

Here is a presentation of the plan for my NPO. It also has a survey result. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/16m5ZoGFeDDNZVUTsNZAqNAAlc3tLufqBl5KteFJ99Co/edit?usp=sharing

  Jonathan Kay said there are three solutions to the extreme political correction; try not to medicalize it, try to resist, and voice your community.  Trying not to assign psychic pain or discomfort to people who disagrees to you. Maybe he was just trying to say different opinions and didn't mean to hurt you. Try to examine it before accusing someone.  Resisting to political correctness is important, but sometimes you need to keep your position in the group you are in. If so, you have to submit to politically correct regimes. However, try to destroy the premise of the person who tries to shut you up using PC.  Voicing the community, regardless of whether you are offended or not is the most important of all. If you see something is criticized, being said that it is racist, and you thought it was not, say it out loud. We have to protect our market place of ideas from the social justice warriors.   Lauren Graham insist that these days who are "politically...

  As I said, diversity is important. It will make your perspectives and life experience richer, less discrimination in the world and many more benefits.  However, us humans liked discrimination. That is because of our instinct, we needed make that decision in order to live back in the old days. The nature of discrimination has been with us until now, and that is why bullying and racism occurs.   All of us know that discrimination isn't a good thing. Being equal to all kinds of people is important, but doing that too much is different. Dragging somebody down from a position of power to make it "equal" is too extreme.   As I said, being too radical and extreme is not "correct". See it from the both perspectives and then think how we can solve the problem.

  In my personal opinion, both of them are very important. Recently, the video game industry has become more diverse than ever. Not only the women's social progress, people from all over the country has been supporting video game industry.   Games that has many characters such as Apex Legends and Overwatch, all of them are from different country, has different sex, religions and it is very diverse. Of course the diversity in gaming is a good thing, but not everything is good.  A good example is Witcher 3 incident. The game was criticized because all the character in the game was white. However, the Witcher 3 is set in Poland, created by Polish man and it is based on Polish mythology and European Folklore. So criticizing that there is no Black or Asian character in Witcher is an mistake because that is the culture and the demographic in the game. You don't have to put colored skinned character in the game if it doesn't make sense. Putting race and sexism into eve...

  The Gamergate controversy is an online harassment campaign, primarily conducted through the use of the hashtag #GamerGate, that centered on issues of sexism and anti-progressivism in video game culture such as harassment campaigns targeting game developers Zoë Quinn and Brianna Wu, as well as Anita Sarkeesian, a feminist critic.  During the Gamergate controversy the term "Social Justice Warriors" gained a negative connotations. Wikipedia contributors. (2021c, July 11). Gamergate controversy. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamergate_controversy

  Anita Sarkeesian's "The Tropes vs Women project" triggered a campaign of sexist harassment against Sarkeesian that included rape and death threats, hacking of her webpages and social media. Attackers posted comments online, vandalized Sarkeesian's article on Wikipedia with racial slurs and sexual images, and sent Sarkeesian drawings of herself being raped by video game characters. They even made a game called "Beat Up Anita Sarkeesian", a game to beat up Sarkeesian by clicking a mouse.  Anyone can see that this is too much and this is one reason why political correctness is a controversial topic. Both sides are extreme and radical.   There is also an argument that being politically correct prevents freedom of speech, but is that true? Freedom of speech gives a person the right to say what they want, but it also gives other people the right to point out if they are being offensive. Freedom of speech doesn’t mean your words can’t be criticized. Wikipedia con...

  When people who uses political correctness as a weapon to criticizing talk, they don’t want to talk with you, but they want to talk "at" you. You’re supposed to shut up, listen and believe because they think that their belief is the only right theory in the world and everything else is "politically incorrect". If talking with one SWJ, we can handle that. However if there's many of them and criticizing ones work, what we should do is resist and voice your community whether if you are offended or not.   We have to resist and shout out to tell that what they are doing is wrong. We have to protect our work from those who are trying to destroy them.  Boghossian, P., & Lindsay, J. (2019b, October 12). Social-Justice Warriors Won’t Listen, but You Should. WSJ. https://www.wsj.com/articles/social-justice-warriors-wont-listen-but-you-should-11570832255 Political Correctness Works For No One | Jonathan Kay | TEDxUTSC. (2019, September 16). YouTube. https://www.youtu...

   As I said, political correctness isn't a bad thing. Making a good society for all of us is a wonderful thing to do.   The problem is that it limits the range of the range of people's opinions. Jonathan Kay insist that human beings like the power to shut up other people and we could easily do that on internet these days. We could crowdsource censorship using SNS and criticize what they didn't like immediately. That will prevent people to say what they really want to say on the internet.  Being politically correct is not a bad thing, but what you do with it is important. Political Correctness Works For No One | Jonathan Kay | TEDxUTSC. (2019, September 16). YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPdMG3oFGac

  Since this blog will mainly be about PC in subcultures, the most famous PC person has to be Anita Sarkeesian. She is a Canadian-American feminist media critic and public speaker. She made a video series examining gender tropes in video games using crowdfunding. Sarkeesian was targeted by an online harassment campaign after the launch of a Kickstarter project to fund the Tropes vs. Women in Video Games series.   Also another famous person who are for PC in the gaming society is Neil Druckmann, the director of "The Last of Us part 2". He was also criticized by many gamers since he cited Anita as an influence.   On the other hand, Youtuber "The Act Man" posted few videos criticizing PC and SWJ in video games. Damsel in Distress: Part 1 - Tropes vs Women in Video Games. (2013, March 7). YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6p5AZp7r_Q Feminists & SJW’s VS. Video Games. (2017, July 27). YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g09vQAQmYM8

 　Being "politically correct" is not a bad thing at all. We all want to live in a good society, with less racism and less sexism. So trying to figure out how to make a good society and being "politically correct" in a correct way is not a problem. The problem is the people who are weaponizing PC to say what they think is right and denying other people the right to free speech just because they were, in their words, "politically incorrect".  Most people who dislike political correctness, it’s mostly because they will become unable to act and behave as they want when they associate with political correctness.  What’s the deal with political correctness? (n.d.). The Big Issues | ReachOut Australia. Retrieved July 14, 2021, from https://au.reachout.com/articles/whats-the-deal-with-political-correctness

 Social Justice Warriors, aka SJWs, use political correctness as a weapon to criticize what they think is "politically incorrect". Social justice warrior (SJW) is a term used for an individual who promotes socially progressive and liberal views, including feminism, civil rights, gay and transgender rights. Most of the time, saying somebody is a SJW means that they are pursuing his/her personal validation rather than the actual "liberal" way of thinking.  So basically, it is not the political correctness itself that are being criticized but the SWJs, people who are using it as a weapon are instead. Boghossian, P., & Lindsay, J. (2019, October 12). Social-Justice Warriors Won’t Listen, but You Should. WSJ. https://www.wsj.com/articles/social-justice-warriors-wont-listen-but-you-should-11570832255

  Political correctness is used to criticize language that seems intended to give the least amount of offense when describing groups identified by external markers such as race, gender, culture, or sexual orientation. So these words are deeply involved with PC.

 As I have written in  What is the meaning of PC? (aogakupc.blogspot.com) , political correctness is used to criticize language that seems intended to give the least amount of offense when describing groups identified by external markers such as race, gender, culture, or sexual orientation, so it is used as a discrimination. Also we can see that Political correctness belongs to a series on "Discrimination Section" page in Wikipedia.  Wikipedia contributors. (2021, July 5). Political correctness. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_correctness

 The term "Political Correctness" appeared in a U.S. Supreme Court decision about the boundaries of federal jurisdiction in 1793. It has been used to describe what is politically wise, and it has been employed as ironic self-mockery.   However, leftists in the 1970s and 1980s used the term as self-critical, ironic satire. It used as a joke among leftists.  Later, the term was started to be used as a criticism of New Left modern in the late 20th century and popularized by a number of articles in The New York Times and other media. NPR Cookie Consent and Choices. (2016, December 14). National Public Radio. https://choice.npr.org/index.html?origin=https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2016/12/14/505324427/politically-correct-the-phrase-has-gone-from-wisdom-to-weapon

 Political correctness (PC), term used to refer to language that seems intended to give the least amount of offense, especially when describing groups identified by external markers such as race, gender, culture, or sexual orientation.  Roper, C. political correctness | Definition, Origin, History, & Facts. Encyclopedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/topic/political-correctness