Relephant bonus video:
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I agree with the spirit of empathy, but the lack of respect in the yoga or pseudo spiritual or liberal or PC community for judgment’s good side is not shared by the Buddhadharma, where discernment—what to accept and what to reject—or “prajna” is a highly-held value.
“Even Chris Rock said he won’t do college campuses any more because college students are horrible.”
I’m feeling very triggered by this:
The problem with PC-fear is that its generalizations–“all white men are evil” are just as stupid as “all blacks or women yadayada.” So: we gotta keep our sense of humor and willingness to offend and be offended alongside real empathy, which is the opposite of PC-paranoid-silencing of all rational discourse.
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This is an amazing article: a reminder that we must be brave enough to reject PC in favor of open discussion but precise and sensitive enough in our editing and discourse to remain empathetic and focused on true equality for all:
“I’m a liberal professor, and my liberal students terrify me.”
Relephant read:
New Agey types, ironically, love to accuse others of “judging.”
Via Reddit:
Yeah first they came for my Chris Rock and I did nothing.
And:
I was walking around Toronto, Canada on Sunday, and I found a number of public works of art that were defaced with the words (edit: something like) “if you don’t know why this is racist, this is what you get”.
It’s disappointing.
edit: Here’s a shot of the piece. Not head-on, but it’s an animal with a musical instrument of some sort
And:
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