Should we ban things if it weren't "politically correct?"/Are people who are for PC being too radical?/Are people who are for PC using PC as a tool to criticize what they didn't like?
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.youtube.com/watch?v=tPdMG3oFGac
It's not at all clear from your summaries if the opinions are yours or those of the sources you cite. You need to be clear about that, especially in academic writing. You can use expressions such as "according to Kay (2019), political correctness is often used to...", for example. Or you can say "Boghossian & Lindsay (2019) make a good point when they say that..." Otherwise, nobody will know who believes what and which of the points you're in agreement with.
ReplyDeleteAlso, it's best to avoid using abbreviations such as SWJ in this context because most people won't know that you're talking about "social justice warriors." Using the abbreviation appears to be used mainly by those critical of individuals they put that label on. I guess it might be in reference to people like Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, or Black Lives Matter activists. My guess is that the abbreviation is always used pejoratively.