The PC “community”
August 21st, 2007 at 10:35 am . by nukeSome time after reading n2l’s latest post, it occurred to me that a certain word has been misappropriated by the PC nazis. It occurred to me because n2l used the word correctly. And it provided a contrast to the “empowerment usage,” purposely designed and deliberately employed to give power and authority to otherwise disparate groups, all on the political left.
It’s a word that has migrated to common usage in the mainstream, and, it’s a word that I’ve grown increasingly tired of.
“Community.”
The practitioners of leftwinguistics who wrote the Wikipedia definition talk about a “human community” as sharing “intent, belief, resources, preferences, needs, risks and a number of other conditions may be present and common, affecting the identity of the participants and their degree of cohesiveness.”
Utter piffle and balderdash.
Whether it’s the muslim community, the African-American community, the Latino community, the immigration rights community, the gay and lesbian community, and so on, and so on, and so on, the irony is delicious: the same people who employ this “empowerment word” to claim commonality and absolute moral authority over their issue of choice are the first people to complain of “stereotyping” and “profiling” when they fail to get exactly what they want, when they want it.
Words mean things. Words have power. This particular word has begun to fall harshly on my ears, and awaken my inner redneck.
I’m not going to play their game anymore.
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I call it more than that, I call it BS and Horse-Hockey.
Within a community, such as my small town, there are divergent groups that are often at odds, but when it came to their sons and daughters, they were united in supporting their community.
This notion of a ‘human community’ is nothing more than an attempt to wussify those of us who recognize it is a dangerous world, and to make us post Beaker videos.
I suppose it never occurred to the leftist drivelers, that there are so many different nations, languages and dialects, and cultures, because over time, the intent, beliefs, resources, preferences, risks, etc., were the source of conflict, and still are to this day. While the dreamy notion of community might make a bleeding-heart lefty lower his guard, there are those who will take advantage of that mistake, and exploit it.
Community means to me, and I dare say to most, people with common interests living in a particular area. The world is composed of a plethora of communities, but they will always be at odds with the world community, in principle.
Community also means home.
While many of us have traveled around the world, the one place, above all others, we compare where we are visiting to, is…home.
Community as used by the PC people seems to mean “everybody that thinks like I do” and excludes everybody else because their points of view are invalid.
My definition of community is everybody that lives in a certain geographic location. Not just the sheep or cattle growers. Not just the people with 4+ years of college. Not just the Baptists, or the heteros, or the marrieds or singles. Everybody means the crazy man that sets peoples’ houses on fire and periodically gets Baker acted long enough to get him back on his meds, the elderly lady with dementia down the road that occasionally waters her flowers in the nude, the crack dealers and prostitutes (and SwampMan was mad with me one day for picking up one of the women that was self-employed that way, carrying her to the grocery store and giving her some money to pick up groceries with, and then carrying her home) and the policemen, the preachers and the hell-raisers, and the vast majority of people that are just pursuing their version of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.