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Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris
As for Corbyn's political correctness
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What burns my ass about this is that it gives good ideas a bad name ... takes a good idea like civil rights (well outlined and defined in the US Civil Rights Act, 1964) and ruins the goddam thing by taking it to ridiculous extremes. I care about the environment ... why not, it's where I live ... but I'm not a tree hugger. I'm opposed to capital punishment, not because of any concern about the human rights of murderers and assorted scum, but because it doesn't work ... in the sense that it ain't a deterrent. If it were, there wouldn't have been over 12,000 hand gun homicides in the US last year. One can hold progressive ideas and not be a politically correct idiot. What I see as PCism is the ridiculous response to the picture of that dead kid being washed ashore. Sad, yes; but it's just one dead kid out of thousands who die every day in this sad, [deleted] up world of ours. And most of those thousands died suffering from disease, starvation, genocide, as child soldiers ... you know the picture. PCers focus on the one, because it's dramatic and makes good news on CNN. The others are left forgotten, suffering in silence. I think it's time to stop ranting.
The danger that I see from Corbyn is that he will taint good ideas ... let's lump them together and call them "socialism" ... with his warm fuzzy ideas. But it would still, I believe, be wrong to write him off so soon after his election.