I remember 'PC' and 'tolerance' in the eighties. I learned quickly to keep my midwestern non PC mouth shut at times. But it wasn't nearly as bad as it's gotten. Personally, I dropped out after 18 months in '85 and became a cook (very non PC atmosphere, LOL) so I probably didn't experience it to the extent you did.
I remember 'PC' and 'tolerance' in the eighties. I learned quickly to keep my midwestern non PC mouth shut at times. But it wasn't nearly as bad as it's gotten. Personally, I dropped out after 18 months in '85 and became a cook (very non PC atmosphere, LOL) so I probably didn't experience it to the extent you did.
I can imagine. Back then I could see the writing on the wall. The one thing that they could not tolerate was intolerance, which could be misconstrued as "disagreement." It's similar to the acceptance of all differences unless you disagree with them.
It wasn't as in-your-face as it is now, and I was in Berkeley and going to JC (briefly, my last 'school') at Lake Merritt in Oakland. I just remember a single instance of a mutual noping of a potential roommate situation with a coworker. She was the nascent version of today's SJW (lthough not insufferable all the time, I mean I was enough of a friend to consider taking the room),but I was too much of an anarchist, tended to think for myself and refused to be vegetarian in the house if I was living there and paying considerable rent.
It sorta sucked, I had to go live in my van. But it was better than listening to the pontification whenever something was not to her standards. I shudder to think that that kind of harping now holds the power it does.
Edit to add: There wasn't too much of this in the 90's. I'm sure there are many points against the 90's as a decade, but I generally saw it as a hopeful decade, it looked like people might just accept each other and get along...maybe it was just the ecstacy, LOL.
Haha, I think it was the fall of the Berlin Wall. There was a worldwide movement toward peace, which freaked out GloboCapCIA, so they had to cook up the War on Terrorism to keep raking in the MIC bucks. See Paul SchreyerтАЩs brilliant presentation on Pandemic Simulation Games for more historical background:
I remember 'PC' and 'tolerance' in the eighties. I learned quickly to keep my midwestern non PC mouth shut at times. But it wasn't nearly as bad as it's gotten. Personally, I dropped out after 18 months in '85 and became a cook (very non PC atmosphere, LOL) so I probably didn't experience it to the extent you did.
I can imagine. Back then I could see the writing on the wall. The one thing that they could not tolerate was intolerance, which could be misconstrued as "disagreement." It's similar to the acceptance of all differences unless you disagree with them.
I had no idea that stuff was around back then. Granted I was born in '85, but I must have been pretty naive and didn't pay attention to it in the 90s
It wasn't as in-your-face as it is now, and I was in Berkeley and going to JC (briefly, my last 'school') at Lake Merritt in Oakland. I just remember a single instance of a mutual noping of a potential roommate situation with a coworker. She was the nascent version of today's SJW (lthough not insufferable all the time, I mean I was enough of a friend to consider taking the room),but I was too much of an anarchist, tended to think for myself and refused to be vegetarian in the house if I was living there and paying considerable rent.
It sorta sucked, I had to go live in my van. But it was better than listening to the pontification whenever something was not to her standards. I shudder to think that that kind of harping now holds the power it does.
Edit to add: There wasn't too much of this in the 90's. I'm sure there are many points against the 90's as a decade, but I generally saw it as a hopeful decade, it looked like people might just accept each other and get along...maybe it was just the ecstacy, LOL.
Haha, I think it was the fall of the Berlin Wall. There was a worldwide movement toward peace, which freaked out GloboCapCIA, so they had to cook up the War on Terrorism to keep raking in the MIC bucks. See Paul SchreyerтАЩs brilliant presentation on Pandemic Simulation Games for more historical background:
https://youtu.be/d3WUv5SV5Hg