Re: Hugo Shortlist 2008 (Sawyer)

On Mar 26, 8:36 pm, John Schilling <schil...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> >Which a good thing.
>
> Rearranging the list of things one is encouraged to be intolerant
> of, is rarely an improvement.  It could be, if it were carefully
> and thoughtfully done, but it rarely is.
>

Ah didn't mean to get recursive on this, but I guess it is by nature.
Lemme see...

Once upon a time it was cool, acceptable and mainstream to be a bigot.

Nowadays, you never know how strangers, even your fellow whites, are
gonna react when you spout off white supremacist theories.  For me at
least, that is an improvement.  Do you find that to be a problem
yourself?


Unfortunately, we've also gotten to the point where opinions that
clash with PC thinking can generate a lot of unthinking backlash.  I
find it a somewhat acceptable, if regrettable, trade off if it is
needed to move us away from pure racism.  But I wish the PC crowd
would chill out - I don't believe that we have to neuter debate to
discredit racism so I don't think the tradeoff is really necessary in
the first place.