Two-thirds of people say Ireland is too politically correct

Yer Da sells Avon wrote: »

Two thirds of people are fucking idiots.

(sorry if that's not politically correct)

Fortunately your opinion doesn’t matter.

Yer Da sells Avon wrote: »

Two thirds of people are fucking idiots.

(sorry if that's not politically correct)

They probably are, but it's more of a coincidence than anything else.

Mad_maxx wrote: »

Political correctness in this country is not driven by the government but the government have bowed to the lobbying of media, academia and various activists

The media roasted Peter casey, not government

Did they? The media will latch onto anything controversial.

The little I noticed about it was also asking similar questions to Casey.

Your Face wrote: »

Maybe, maybe not. My point is that the people think their concerns are not being addressed by the government.
They are being ignored, so they look to the likes of Casey and whomever.

On Casey, it was a dynamic of that campaign, that members of government roasted him as they were towing the party PC line as did their media mouthpieces.

Personally I'd be glad our Government didn't ostracise any group in society.

Particularly when it's a cynical vote catching gimmick.

I think PC overreached long ago. It was one of the reasons Clinton fell to Trump. Many in the liberal spectrum there are questioning why this has happened. Some are fingering the take over of identity politics.

PC here is a decade or so behind US and UK peaks. But is no less sanctimonious for it. For me, the high water mark was Colm O’Gorman’s claim on the radio that the gay marriage referendum was in fact about the whole liberal agenda. Tin ear permissive liberals have been giving it socks ever since. For instance:

1. An early low profile overreach was Enda Kenny’s ‘recognition’ of Travellers as an ethnic group, without any evidentiary basis whatsoever.

2. While I enthusiastically supported ‘repeal the eighth’, I felt the heart repeal logo was an affront. After all abortion is an unfortunate, messy business. It shouldn’t have been ‘marketed’ like a Valentine’s day box of chocolates. But the Repeal campaign used that heart logo extensively without it seems giving it a moment’s thought.

3. The horrified but confident reaction of the water cooler ‘liberal’ media to the vote for Casey was an indication of how much in control of social debate the liberati thought they were. I think this is where the backlash, which one of the IT correspondents mentioned today, actually had a chance to crystallise.

4. A couple of weeks back the SB Post had an interesting feature on immigrants in Ireland, lauding the extent to which integration takes place here. But without giving a moments thought to what the public reaction might be to the high proportions of, say, Muslim immigration experienced in some other European countries, and the serious problems arising from it.

What is most striking for me is not just the emergence of these issues in national debate, but the shrill, censorious attitude of many of those promoting ‘liberal’ solutions, with characterisations of ‘racist’, ‘sexist’, ‘homophobe’, ‘nationalist’, ‘anti-semite’, etc. being readily thrown at anyone demurring from the hardline ideological standpoints emerging as the new liberal ‘consensus’ of a metropolitan, multicultural Ireland, pioneered by new leftist, ‘liberal’, and feminist clergies.

The IT has unexpectedly struck a raw nerve. I think a backlash is indeed in the offing.

klaaaz wrote: »

Where is the backlash coming from, a non-existent far-right party? Perhaps Gemma O'D? No present political party in the Dail supports your views.

Oh, you know you probably won’t see it coming.

A bit like the Casey result. And the 69% IT poll figure itself.

I’m guessing inividualistic permissive liberalism will be its own undoing.