Juno News - October 15, 2018


Wealthy, white liberals--not minorities--are only ones to support political correctness

Hosted by
Andrew Lutton
Mentioned
Jordan Peterson
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Episode Stats


Length

3 minutes

Words per minute

164.53

Word count

603

Sentence count

48

Harmful content

Hate speech

1

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Summary

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A new study shows that across age, across race, and across religion, political correctness is just as unpopular as it is unpopular across the political spectrum. Why is it so powerful? Is it because it s being pushed by white, secular progressives?

Transcript

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00:00:00.120 Every time political correctness has been polled or studied, it reveals a very similar result.
00:00:05.700 That people are fed up with it, people think political correctness has run amok, and people just don't want to deal with it.
00:00:12.440 Yet even so, the majority of people also feel bound by it.
00:00:16.120 One of the most exhaustive polls and studies ever done on political correctness was released just this past week,
00:00:21.960 and it revealed, perhaps unsurprisingly, that the majority of people, close to about 80%,
00:00:27.020 are against political correctness, or believe it's become too powerful in society.
00:00:32.580 What's fascinating, though, is that white people are actually the least likely to believe that.
00:00:37.820 It's a narrow margin, but ethnic minorities are among the people most frustrated with political correctness,
00:00:43.820 because they also see that it's being invoked in their name, even though they don't particularly care for it.
00:00:49.700 And this study showed something very fascinating, which is that across age, across race, across religion,
00:00:56.200 political correctness is just as unpopular.
00:00:59.440 So why, then, is it so powerful?
00:01:01.840 Well, the one revealing trait that we do see about it is that educated, wealthy, white liberals are the ones behind it.
00:01:10.640 So they say it's about looking out for minorities, they say it's about being more racially sensitive,
00:01:15.540 or more tolerant of other people, but in actuality, it's the most common group.
00:01:19.860 Whites making six-figure salaries that are in that progressive activist category, 0.56
00:01:24.920 the only category, progressives, where political correctness is actually seen as more desirable than undesirable.
00:01:32.660 Political correctness is a cultural phenomenon, a social phenomenon,
00:01:36.380 which means that all it takes for it to lose its power is for people to start fighting back against it.
00:01:41.800 The problem is that the elites are the ones running the table here.
00:01:45.440 The people that are fed up with it are the ones that don't have the power.
00:01:49.480 They're the ones that could lose their jobs if they say something that's politically incorrect.
00:01:53.220 The ones that would find themselves on the receiving end of the social media mob
00:01:57.160 if they so much as make an errant joke.
00:01:59.740 These people are the majority, but they feel like they are powerless
00:02:03.560 because of how the minority elites, not ethnic minorities,
00:02:07.460 but the minority in terms of who believes in PC and who doesn't,
00:02:10.760 because they're the ones that are imposing all this punishment for running afoul of it.
00:02:14.800 Now, in a way, this is very discouraging because it shows that PC has become a monster
00:02:19.800 bigger than the group of people pushing it.
00:02:22.500 But there's also a great deal of encouragement here.
00:02:25.300 What it takes to fight back against political correctness is for people to stand up against it,
00:02:30.220 for people to not play ball, and for people to not give it the power it has.
00:02:34.620 And Jordan Peterson has said time and time again,
00:02:36.860 you don't get to choose no punishment at all.
00:02:39.460 You get to choose whether you're punished for speaking out or punished for not.
00:02:42.900 Well, it's time for us to all speak out.
00:02:45.520 When you see PC being put into force,
00:02:48.700 do not play ball, do not legitimize it,
00:02:51.220 do not recognize its power,
00:02:52.900 and eventually the majority will win out.
00:02:55.460 But it's not going to be a seamless process.
00:02:57.400 We're seeing this now.
00:02:58.720 But let's believe that PC has nothing to do with standing up for minorities.
00:03:03.940 It's a power grab by white secular progressives.
00:03:07.140 For the True North Initiative, I'm Andrew Lutton.
00:03:12.900 Thank you.
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