Then I know what kind of person you are.
Decency, morality, respect.... Oh sorry, better release the app.
Good night.
The problem is that it has become politically awkward to draw attention to absolutes of bad and good. In place of manners, we now have doctrines of political correctness, against which one offends at one's peril: by means of a considerable circular logic, such offences mark you as reactionary and therefore a bad person. Therefore if you say people are bad, you are bad.
Lynne Truss
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I very much enjoy these types of "discussions."
Because you don't agree with me, you're wrong.
In this particular case, the discussion has centered around whether one group feels some faux offense at the release of this game, so immediately the game developer is a bad person. Never once considering who made them the arbiter of what is offensive to any and everyone else.
By declaring the developer a bad person for follow his own opinion, do they not realize they too are being offensive? But it's OK because their cause is righteous in their own mind.
The Procrustean bed. . .suggests itself with dispiriting aptness as a metaphor for the Culture Wars, right down to the blandishments with which Procrustes must have lured his guests over the threshold. (I picture him as a handsome fellow with a large vocabulary and an oleaginous tongue, not unlike the chairmen of many English departments.) There's just one crucial difference. Sometimes Procrustes lopped off his victims, and sometimes he stretched them, but the Culture Wars always lop. I have never seen cultural politics enlarge a work of literature, only diminish it.
Anne Fadiman
