Political correctness’ is a label the privileged often use to distract from their privilege and hate.
– DaShanne Stokes
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- Political correctness’ as ‘over-sensitivity’ is code for saying the privileged shouldn’t have their unearned privileges questioned. – DaShanne Stokes
- Those with unearned privileges often spin things as ‘political correctness’ to further silence those they wish to oppress. – DaShanne Stokes
- Bigots often like to say they’re the ones being hurt as they oppress and hurt others. Never fall for the ‘pity the privileged’ routine. – DaShanne Stokes
- What does religious freedom mean if we would use it as a cover for hate and privilege? – DaShanne Stokes
- Those who benefit from unearned privilege are too often quick to discount those who don’t. – DaShanne Stokes
- It is not important how they treat the most privileged (or most famous people) [in a country], but how they treat the less privileged ones. – Christina Rickardsson
- Comrade, your statement is factually incorrect.- -œYes, it is. But it is politically correct.- (The Rise of Political Correctness) – Angelo Codevilla
- Privilege doesn’t just insulate people from the consequences of their prejudice, it cuts them off from their humanity. – DaShanne Stokes
- If you think being straight means you’re being discriminated against, you’re probably misreading your privilege. – DaShanne Stokes
- Privilege is when your voice is the norm but still you claim to be unheard. – DaShanne Stokes
- Privilege is when you contribute to the oppression of others and then claim that you are the one being discriminated against. – DaShanne Stokes
- Privilege is when you can afford to sit back and criticize others who have to fight for the things you take for granted. – DaShanne Stokes
- Privilege is when you can afford to sit back and watch as others’ rights are trampled upon. – DaShanne Stokes
- Privilege is not knowing that you’re hurting others and not listening when they tell you. – DaShanne Stokes
- Prejudice plunges you into a world of fear and hate. That’s no way to live. – DaShanne Stokes
- A president who has incited violence inspires citizens towards hate and violence. – DaShanne Stokes
- Calling for an end to hate shouldn’t be treated as a punishable offense. – DaShanne Stokes
- People often call fighting discrimination being ‘PC’ because they don’t want their own unearned privileges challenged. – DaShanne Stokes
- Saying something is ‘politically correct’ is often a way of dismissing the voices of the oppressed. – DaShanne Stokes
- People often call fighting racism being ‘PC’ when they don’t want to confront their own prejudice – DaShanne Stokes
- A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness. In fact, he creates new appearances of things. – Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
- Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. – John Emerich Edward DalbergActon
- I wasnt political in order to be political – Jerzy Grotowski
- The American people are fed up…with political posturing.’ True, but also an example of political posturing. – James Taranto
- Nice mix of Tory MPs saying this issue shouldn’t be used for petty political pointscoring, & Tory MPs trying to score petty political points. – Andy Zaltzman
- As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones. – Steven Pinker
- Often the devil wants to distract us from our goal, to make us passive and neutralize our actions – Sunday Adelaja
- Blind party loyalty will be our downfall. We must follow the truth wherever it leads. – DaShanne Stokes
- Our democracy should aspire to be more democratic. – DaShanne Stokes
- No matter their party, people with a conflict of interest should be banned from the Electoral College. – DaShanne Stokes
- Today’s ‘religious freedom’ policies should not be seen as a problem limited to LGBT people but as a co-optation of religion that affects us all. – DaShanne Stokes
- Only by speaking out can we create lasting change. And that change begins with coming out. – DaShanne Stokes
- Discovering that I was adopted redefined my entire world, but it taught me that who you are doesn’t change. – DaShanne Stokes
- Racist legacy laws and modern racist practices are all part of the same system, and it needs to be changed now. – DaShanne Stokes
- We must speak truth to power and confront ignorance with facts. – DaShanne Stokes
- Saying it’s hard being straight is like complaining to the poor that it’s difficult being wealthy. – DaShanne Stokes
- It’s a scary world we live in when a person of color endorses a racist for president. – DaShanne Stokes
- The minute we look away, the minute we stop fighting back, that’s the minute bigotry wins. – DaShanne Stokes
- Urging an organization to be inclusive is not an attack. It’s progress. – DaShanne Stokes
- Racism hurts everyone, including racists themselves. – DaShanne Stokes