Originally Posted by
Conch22
I don't take the good intentions excuse as a real excuse. Everyone who ends up on a bad path outside of your garden variety serial killers, has good intentions. Communists had good intentions. Well, all these people starved to death, but they had good intentions. The Nazi party thought they were doing what was best for Germany. Even the Rwandan genocide, they didn't call them people, they called them cockroaches, which they intended to and nearly succeeded in exterminating. The race they thought they were doing it on behalf of, they thought they were doing a good thing for them. So, saying good intentions doesn't address the reality of how ideas get implemented and becomes a meaningless pleasantry to distract from when things go wrong.
Those are extreme examples to illustrate the point, so let's have some real examples of political correctness going wrong then, right? There was a rap concert, in Detroit if I remember right, this was earlier this year. They decided to charge black people more than white people to attend. Wait, I messed the people targeted up. They decided to charge white people more than black people for tickets. Out of a sense of politically correct balancing of the scales culturally. Then they had a rapper drop out as he didn't think it was right they'd charge his white mom more than his black dad. That's poison and it seems to be the trend with political correctness this decade. Something screwed up happened in the past so something equally screwed up has to happen to balance it out. The DoublePlusGood style newspeak also isn't foreboding in the least.
Keeping this centered on comics, remember when Black Panther broke Red Skulls jaw and stated how he'd been viewing race the way the Red Skull does and he was going to seek to be a better man that didn't make those insane judgements based on race? That would be seen as politically incorrect today, the authors skin color would be a talking point, color blindness would be seen as "reinforcing whiteness" or some other implication that's clearly bigoted in how it uses skin color as a defacto negative.
It's not particularly difficult to recognize the patterns. Okay, this group of assorted people believe in political correctness, they're gonna clearly misread Black Widows arc in Avengers 2 to give it the most negative connotation imaginable. Or stop Tim Seeley from creating Blades daughter due to skin color.
Gotta jam in some points here because this site keeps losing half my posts. Let's be fair, if there's specific actions from this decade, like getting Dwayne McDuffie a star on the Hollywood walk of Fame or fixing the screwed up situation where Marvel will pigeonhole Christopher Priest as the "black writer" let's hear it. Lets hear the specific good that's come out of this, credit where it's due. Not some vague there's good intentions, society's "better" and that's all down to us