Yeah irreverence for the previous generation's taboos has always had an appeal to young scallywags, from Sex Pistols and Vivienne Westwood in the 70s through to Kneecap today (the IRA thing not the Hamas thing). It's a way of breaking with the past and tell the oldies that was your problem, we got our own problems which is probably a good thing overall.
I dont know for sure but it does feel like the pendulum reached its apex and is now moving slowly back on the whole getting-offended-at-choice-of-words mindset, because it reached such an extent that even the BBC felt they had to take the piss https://www.tiktok.com/@the_wanton_wench/video/7210647761778150661
Yes, Labels, what do they really mean? What do they actually accomplish?
There are certainly Radicals, both "Left" and "Right". Yet, if everything conservative is condemned as "Right Radical", doesn't that then make the "Center" the new right and the moderate "Left" the "Center" ? And what has that accomplished?
Has that not taken the valid concerns of many voters off the table, because of a label laid on the speaker. Perhaps concerns should be judged On Their Merits, rather than on the label of those (or some of those) who support them.
This is true in many countries, including Germany and the United States of America.
Yeah irreverence for the previous generation's taboos has always had an appeal to young scallywags, from Sex Pistols and Vivienne Westwood in the 70s through to Kneecap today (the IRA thing not the Hamas thing). It's a way of breaking with the past and tell the oldies that was your problem, we got our own problems which is probably a good thing overall.
I dont know for sure but it does feel like the pendulum reached its apex and is now moving slowly back on the whole getting-offended-at-choice-of-words mindset, because it reached such an extent that even the BBC felt they had to take the piss https://www.tiktok.com/@the_wanton_wench/video/7210647761778150661
Spot on analysis
I enjoy your articles
Yes, Labels, what do they really mean? What do they actually accomplish?
There are certainly Radicals, both "Left" and "Right". Yet, if everything conservative is condemned as "Right Radical", doesn't that then make the "Center" the new right and the moderate "Left" the "Center" ? And what has that accomplished?
Has that not taken the valid concerns of many voters off the table, because of a label laid on the speaker. Perhaps concerns should be judged On Their Merits, rather than on the label of those (or some of those) who support them.
This is true in many countries, including Germany and the United States of America.