Politically Correct Curse

Change Hurts

I watched Boston go through convulsions when a federal judge forced the ethic and tribal neighborhoods to integrate.  The Italian neighborhoods and Irish neighborhoods did not mix, much less accept black kids.   There were busing demonstration, angry blue collar parents in the streets.   I saw it up close: people resented being forced to mix with others beyond "our kind".   

Some of the anger was about the mixing--the busing of others into the neighborhood schools.   The rest of the anger came from the FORCED busing.    That was the phrase in use: "forced busing".

This article in the NYTimes discusses the resentment many whites feel about politically correct multicultural mixing (resentment) and it puts into context some of the Hillary hatred (she is the nit picking home room teacher who gives her 8th graders rules, just at the time when the adolescents want autonomy.)

Click here for an article well worth your time.

My liberal progressive readers likely do not feel the white identity politics resentment expressed in the above NY Times article, but maybe the do--at least a little.  Certainly they are not immune from resentment at what they consider over-the-top assertion of correctness. A Portland coffee house owner of good conscience and reputation as an enlightened businesswoman (the first non smoking establishment in town and the first to have a gender neutral bathroom) is burdened by a mayor who empowers the homeless to set up tents on sidewalks in politically correct Portland, a city open to weirdness.   The result is the sidewalk in front of her business is crowded with sleeping bags and tents and it is a disheveled crowded unsanitary mess and a gauntlet for patrons.  She is unhappy.

Political intolerance is not simply an artifact of the religious right or working class whites.   Supporters of PETA, opponents of coal and fracking, supporters of wilderness, opponents of pipelines draw sharp lines between the acceptable and forbidden.

I am traveling and have limited access to the computer and editing.   Today please click above on the link and see a perspective worth considering