"If Americans learned that a leader in another country was threatening reporters, we would be outraged. Yet here it is. Right here. Right now...
Trump’s rationale for avoiding Kelly’s debate question – that neither he nor America has time for “political correctness” – taps into a popular boogeyman. The term “political correctness” is so general that to most people it simply means a discomfort with changing times and attitudes, an attack on the traditions of how we were raised. (It’s an emotional challenge every generation has had to go through.) What it really means is nothing more than sensitizing people to the fact that some old-fashioned words, attitudes and actions may be harmful or insulting to others. Naturally, people are angry about that because it makes them feel stupid or mean when they really aren’t. But when times change, we need to change with them in areas that strengthen our society...
If you don’t have time for political correctness, you don’t have time to be the caretaker of our rights under the Constitution...
There’s a lot of complaining about the lengthy process in the United States of winnowing candidates, but this year has shown its great strength. It gives a wide variety of people the chance to have their voices heard, and it gives voters a chance to see the candidates over a period of time when their political masks slip. Some rise to the challenge, others deflate under the pressure of nothing to say."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/09/02/kareem-abdul-jabbar-this-is-the-difference-between-donald-trump-and-bernie-sanders/?a
<3 this. I was feeling very fatalistic About the Trump stuff but it's sort of coming around the other side and giving people platforms to talk about bigger stuff, just using him as a stepping stone. The hand-wringing is hopefully past.
FB: "If you don’t have time for political correctness, you don’t have time to be the caretaker of our rights under the Constitution."
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