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Originally Posted by SisterofJared
Being Politically Correct means ALWAYS having to say you're sorry!
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Would you mind helping me out with this, because heaven knows I don’t want the pejorative “politically correct” hung around my neck.
I have been here over a year and a half, and it would be impossible for me to count how many posts I have read that cry “persecution.“ And in almost every one of them, they liken the very real persecutions the early Saints endured to the pithy persecutions they think they are still enduring today.
According to your rationale, if I express my compassion for the black Americans who were terrorized by monsters, I am being politically correct. I get that.
But when someone here writes a post about the early Saints who were terrorized, albeit in much smaller numbers, and by different monsters, am I being politically correct if I express my compassion for them as well?
Or, again using your rationale, when I express my belief that is better not to offend people by displaying an item that evokes their hate-filled and violent past, I am being politically correct.
But if I express my concerns that it is offensive to demean the early Saints' hate-filled and violent past by comparing it to the present persecutions that are nothing but, isn't that being politically correct as well?
Because the only difference I see is one of the groups is Mormon.
I don’t cherry pick the atrocities I give my compassion to. And if showing my compassion for one of the above is being politically correct, then it is true for other as well.
So be it. I don't mind.
Elphaba