Ted Cruz, as he has now lost the nomination to tRump numerically, has now started to double down on the RWNJ bigotry of scaring little girls and their mothers if only to attempt to recover whatever evangelical dregs remain of ‘bagger-base delegates for the “contestable” RNC convention. “PC” as appropriated by the Right signifies some fictive liberal code of conduct somehow more oppressive than the theocratic laws desired by nutlogs like Cruz.
For even folks in DK only “pie” comes close to expressing such a cultural code similar to a correctness rule. However the reality is that anyone who uses the PC term for something other than “Personal Computer” (usually the Wintel cpu) or as the remark below references, engages in a fallacy. That’s not to say that there aren’t ridiculous practices in DK like HR/flagging and their abuses. Fortunately PC toilets should only have one meaning here.
I learned all kinds of interesting stuff about the American Left of the 1970s. I learned, for instance, that Maoists always come on time to meetings, but Stalinists are more fun at parties. I learned how to spot undercover government agents (they do all the scut work and make meetings last forever.) I learned that the women in the local chapter of the Revolutionary Communist Party all got their hair cut at the same place.
And, dear reader, that was where I first heard the term “politically correct.” It was used by a Stalinist describing a Maoist (or possibly the other way around—gimme a break, I’m going on 75 now.) It was, as we would say now, snark, used to describe somebody’s excessive or even obsessive devotion to the minutiae of political principle. It was a kind of in-group joke.
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In terms of Toilet Fascism, the discourse is truly Pee-C when ostensibly cis-gendered straight men want to control all other people’s bodily functions and frighten women and girls. This is misogyny of a quite odd sort since ironically, men’s rooms are the site where mutually visible display of genitalia among men and boys is more likely.
The RW attempt to enforce privacy-violating gender norms in the name of sex crime prevention makes them the true perverts in attempting to monitor everyone’s genitals much like the numerous transvaginal scan regulations attempted in some states. Those states ironically have attempted to bar non-existent threats of sharia law, as if Judeo-Christian genital inspection/surveillance as gender confirmation had some Constitutional standing as state-sponsored short-arm inspection. Like the men’s room, it seems to be a particularly RW male obsession like the “small hands” meme of the GOP debates. Libertarian privacy rights seems somehow co-mingled with the fear of pedophila much like the RW rhetorical pairing of homosexuality and bestiality. RW terror always seems to border on one’s fly-zone.
So for example, post-Schilling firing, many misogynist idiots burned up teh Twitter over an all-female ESPN panel
….and then there’s Carnival Cruz’s doubled-down take on this bit of unchecked underpants...
“ESPN fired Curt Schilling for making the rather obvious point that we shouldn’t allow grown male adult strangers alone in a bathroom with little girls," the Texas senator said in a Thursday interview on Glenn Beck’s radio show. "That’s a point anyone who is rational should understand.”
Like Schilling, Cruz sees opposition to this meme and to so-called “bathroom bills” as a result of unchecked “political correctness.”
Or...(h/t Steven Payne) speaking much more truth to rationality (NSFW)…