Another Twitter experiment — an essay on political correctness and its variations,
#onPC 1. Student filed assignment on #politicalcorrectness @RutgersU campus. Article struggled w/definition — consistent w/current use.
— Hank Kalet (@newspoet41) December 11, 2015
#onPC 2. She interviewed students 2 explain or debunk problem on campus. But no 1 sd what problem might b. #PoliticalCorrectness
— Hank Kalet (@newspoet41) December 11, 2015
#onPC 3. Malleability of phrase #PoliticalCorrectness means debate over PC is not a debate @ all.
— Hank Kalet (@newspoet41) December 11, 2015
#onPC 4. The term #PoliticalCorrectness has its legitimate uses as a check on dogma.
— Hank Kalet (@newspoet41) December 11, 2015
#onPC 5. But this is true only if wet careful w/definitions. #PoliticalCorrectness
— Hank Kalet (@newspoet41) December 11, 2015
#onPC 6. Most public figures who use #PoliticalCorrectness use it as an epithet, as a way 2 shut debate.
— Hank Kalet (@newspoet41) December 11, 2015
#onPC 7. When #Trump decries #PoliticalCorrectness he does so 2 dismiss his critics, whose critiques he says r w/o substance.
— Hank Kalet (@newspoet41) December 11, 2015
#onPC 8. #Seinfeld & others, 2 a lesser degree, wield phrase #PoliticalCorrectness 2 avoid self examination.
— Hank Kalet (@newspoet41) December 11, 2015
#onPC 9. These college kids, #Seinfeld says, r being #PoliticallyCorrect — 2 sensitive. It's never abt what he says. #PoliticalCorrectness
— Hank Kalet (@newspoet41) December 11, 2015
#onPC 10. Sometimes it is a hypersensitivity, but wielding the term #PoliticalCorrectness w/such ease shuts debate. No discussion necessary.
— Hank Kalet (@newspoet41) December 11, 2015
#onPC 11. Is it #PoliticalCorrectness that drives the response 2 #trump & his #muslimban or his bashing of immigrants?
— Hank Kalet (@newspoet41) December 11, 2015
#onPC 12. #Trump certainly has the right 2 say what he says, however noxious & I'll defend that right. #PoliticalCorrectness
— Hank Kalet (@newspoet41) December 11, 2015
#onPC 13. But I have the right 2 call #Trump out. Just b/c he CAN say something does not mean he can't b criticized. #PoliticalCorrectness
— Hank Kalet (@newspoet41) December 11, 2015
#onPC 14. Calling criticism of speech #PoliticalCorrectness is a dodge, as is equating criticism w/censorship.
— Hank Kalet (@newspoet41) December 11, 2015
#onPC 15. The phrase #culturalappropriation may fall into the same category as #PoliticalCorrectness — overused & lacking precision.
— Hank Kalet (@newspoet41) December 11, 2015
#onPC 16. Like #PoliticalCorrectness #culturalappropriation purports 2 describe a real phenomenon but does so 2 broadly
— Hank Kalet (@newspoet41) December 11, 2015
#onPC 17 #culturalappropriation used 2 describe everything from #IggyAzalea & #VanillaIce 2 #Eminem & Elvis. Usually is meant derisively.
— Hank Kalet (@newspoet41) December 11, 2015
#onPC 18. Does qualitative difference among these artists factor into debate over #culturalappropriation & shd it? #PoliticalCorrectness
— Hank Kalet (@newspoet41) December 11, 2015
#onPC 19. Perhaps the problem is in defining #culturalappropriation as always being negative. #PoliticalCorrectness
— Hank Kalet (@newspoet41) December 11, 2015
#onPC 20. Sometimes borrowing leads 2 great art/new forms. #Elvis, #countryblues, #honktonk . #PoliticalCorrectness #culturalappropriation
— Hank Kalet (@newspoet41) December 11, 2015
#onPC 21. Sometimes #culturalappropriation is posing – #IggyAzalea – though we have 2b careful not 2 assume intention #PoliticalCorrectness
— Hank Kalet (@newspoet41) December 11, 2015
#onPC 22. I'm not arguing that either phenomena is a lie, only that the terms lack precision. #PoliticalCorrectness #culturalappropriation
— Hank Kalet (@newspoet41) December 11, 2015
#onPC 23. It occurs 2 me that black #respectabilitypolitics works the same way #PoliticalCorrectness #culturalappropriation
— Hank Kalet (@newspoet41) December 11, 2015
#onPC 24. Much of this is debate over authenticity. Who is authentically American, black, etc #culturalappropriation #PoliticalCorrectness #
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#onPC 25. Tho we don't like 2 admit it. These terms r the way we define our world. Jargon narrows it #PoliticalCorrectness
— Hank Kalet (@newspoet41) December 11, 2015
#onPC 26. The retreat into jargon — a form of dogma — is a retreat from complexity & nuance. #PoliticalCorrectness
— Hank Kalet (@newspoet41) December 11, 2015
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