Donald Drumpf isn’t attacking political correctness. He’s attacking decency.
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This week Donald Trump was asked by a female reporter to justify his routine use of slurs and gender insults directed at women. Instead of addressing the issue, he simply stated that there is too much political correctness. The room full of conservatives cheered him on. But the twenty-four million Americans watching at home may have seen something different altogether. Finally, after decades of treating “political correctness” like an invisible bogey man, someone has put a face on the argument against it. And it isn’t a pretty one....
Except when coming out of the mouths of conservatives, of course. They invariably manage to convince themselves that continuing to use hurtful words and phrases is not just a right, but almost a solemn duty. It’s as if they’re unable to wrap their heads around the concept of backing off from something simply because it’s the right thing to do. And so when they see others doing just that, they’re left to conclude that others are just cowards, afraid of repercussions. And conservatives also assume that everyone else is still gleefully using that hurtful phrase in private, whenever no one from the offended group is in the room. In their fictional view of the world, the real oppressor is the concept of political correctness.
The rest of us know that “political correctness” doesn’t really exist, as least not as conservatives try to define it. It’s simply a derisive phrase that less-evolved people use as a way of demonizing the more evolved behavior of those around them. And so when they hear someone like Donald Trump railing against this imaginary vice, they gravitate toward him. Not because he’s standing up for the right of people to say whatever they want. But specifically because he’s saying awful things.
Trump’s supporters regularly state that they like him because he calls it like it is. A closer examination of his words reveals that he rarely does so. If one wanted to accurately insult Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly, they would point out that she’s unintelligent and uninformed and appears to have only gotten her job because she’s physically attractive. Instead Trump suggested that it was her time of the month. Not only is that inappropriate, it’s irrelevant. It’s the kind of generic insult that a fourteen year old boy would have no trouble coming up with in response to a girl who spurned his advances. It’s just sour grapes.
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