In this discussion with Tim Stanley, Laura Perrins makes an excellent point: "I remember when these woke guys and girls (very much girls) were in university and they were doing their gender studies and their women's studies, and I very clearly remember right-wing people going "Oh, don't worry about that, they'll never find a job with their gender studies, they'll all be unemployed. How wrong were they? These Gender Studies people, the Women's Studies people, they they all run HR for a start..."
It's a point which I've never seen made before, but which needs to be made.
Even now, after so many reasons not to do so, people take political correctness as some kind of joke or eccentricity, something removed from the "real world". It's absolutely not.
Similiarly to the misguided confidence Laura Perrins reports, one often hears people make statements such as this one: "All these woke students with their safe spaces and their trigger warnings, they'll never be able to survive in the real world..."
Oh yes, they will.
Why? Because they know what they're doing is a game, a tactic. They know the university is an artificial space and they know its boundaries. They are very shrewd and when they leave university they will know how to play the game in the jobs market-- until they have the power to influence things themselves.
They're not really looking for protection from traumatic triggers. They're looking to silence their opponents by weaponizing victimhood, and they are getting very good at it.
It's long past time to stop being naive about political correctness. The lunatic fringe of one decade is the state-imposed orthodoxy of the next. We've seen this pattern so often, how can we keep falling for it?
No comments:
Post a Comment