Polarized Lenses: 9/11, Charlottesville, and How Right & Wrong Replaced Right & Left
"Driving this seeming need for equivocation is the replacement of right and wrong with notions of right and left. Moral responsibility has given way to political expediency, as we carefully tailor our comments and select our outrage — not to condemn a wrong, but to make a point. Lost in this increasing politicization, and subsequent polarization, is the reality that neither truth nor virtue is subject to the whims of politics."
"It is incumbent on us to shed the polarizatio
The Art of (Political) Correctness
Lost...in this battle over how our ideas (and ourselves) are presented and perceived, is what those ideas are.
The primary focus of any debate should be the merits of the matter in question; how it makes one feel is secondary at best. When this becomes reversed, as it often has in our society, nobody learns and nobody benefits but, rather, all of society suffers. Political correctness and honesty took center stage in this year's presidential election. What role does each