And I was feeling today this constant tug and pull I used to go through–still go through on occasion–with my mother in particular. She would define reality in some way that was fundamentally skewed and wrong, and I would have to fight not to be sucked into her delusion. It was a tug of war, and very tiring.
I would describe this, though, as a sort of assault, of emotional abuse, even if it was not consciously intended as such.
When you fail to see someone as they are, to accept them as they are, to impose your world view by simply refusing to see theirs, you are attacking them, and it should in my view be processed as an attack. Anger is a very acceptable and healthy response, even if the other person simply cannot grasp why you are angry. To back off on your anger is to accede to their world view which does not have any room for you in it.
When white Southerners in the Jim Crow era forced blacks to use different water fountains and swimming pools, and forced them to sit at the back of the bus, they were not looking at blacks as people just like them. They were viewing them through a narcissistic lens of alleged intellectual and moral superiority.
It is this failure of humanity, of communion, which is what makes racism wrong. It is a perceptual distortion, an error.
And Political Correctness is simply one more iteration of this prejudgement, this disconnection from the currents of human social and emotional life. It is racism without the race.
As I keep saying, until we can define why things are wrong, we cannot be sure we are not making the bad worse. The only argument the Left has against racism is that it is anti-egalitarian. But they cannot say why egalitarianism should be the sole moral value. They simply stipulate it, since it is all that is left once individual moral autonomy and possibility of growth is rejected.
And in point of fact they are quite willing to accept slavery in the name of egalitarianism. They have even developed a term “chattel slavery” to denote the kind they oppose, and by extension the forms they are quite willing to accept. Anyone who uses the term chattel slavery needs to be kicked vigorously in the ‘nads.
No one capable of clear thought can accept any part of this monstrous project.