{"id":145428,"date":"2017-01-16T12:28:15","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T18:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=145428"},"modified":"2017-01-16T12:28:15","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T18:28:15","slug":"the-perils-of-political-correctness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=145428","title":{"rendered":"The Perils of Political Correctness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.papermag.com\/shelby-steele-political-correctness-2190242561.html\" target=\"_blank\">Shelby Steele<\/a> turns over a rock.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One of the points that I feel very strongly about, coming as a black [man], is that the deference that America has shown us since the &#8217;60s with the War on Poverty and the Great Society and welfare, these deferential policies that defer to our history of victimization now victimize us more than racism did. I grew up in segregation. I know exactly what it&#8217;s like. And I had a more positive attitude toward America than many blacks do today who are the beneficiaries of Affirmative Action. I think that deference has become a very corrupting influence on the people that it tries to help. It&#8217;s honorable that it wants to help these people but they never ask the people to be responsible for their own transformation and uplift and that&#8217;s the great tragedy of deference and political correctness.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As is traditional, if you didn&#8217;t know that he claimed to be black you wouldn&#8217;t ever know it; certainly not by looking at him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shelby Steele turns over a rock. One of the points that I feel very strongly about, coming as a black [man], is that the deference that America has shown us since the &#8217;60s with the War on Poverty and the Great Society and welfare, these deferential policies that defer to our history of victimization now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dystopia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145429,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145428\/revisions\/145429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}