Lit Ignorance is Bias: The Diversity Manifesto

http://www.vox.com/2015/1/28/7930845/political-correctness-doesnt-exist

 

Meet Magic: The Gathering's First Trans Character

 

I prefer the explanation proffered by Sam Witwer during his commentary of ROTS on RebelForce Radio - Anakin actually quite severely (fatally) injured her, and she was kept alive by her strong connection to the Force through Luke and Leia still gestating within her. When they were removed, her connection died and so did she.


I mean overall I'd prefer that a proper explanation was given but I of the not terrible ones we can cobble together that is my preference.

 

....Er, while I won't deny that people do use it to dismiss issues, it does have a defection - it means to use a term that is more commonly accepted by the current political climate.

The example my textbook gave was using the term "police action" instead of "war."

 

I kind of even agree with the term "war" falling out of favor, because even the worst modern conflicts are so different from what "war" typically meant in the past.

 

Well, even back in the 50s they were calling Korea the "Korean Conflict". People nowadays reserve capital-W "War" for hindsight unless it's something they're rah-rah about (War on Terror) or condemning (Iraq War).

 

Cute. I doubt anybody on the ground gives a **** whether you call it a "police action" or "armed conflict" or "cupcake happy party" when "collateral damage participants" "become deceased" in "unspecified numbers" due to "intentional weapon system activations".

Using a casual definition of PC, political correctness and terms of art are not mutually exclusive. Indeed, terms of art are sometimes created because of a need to provide euphemisms that help "sell" otherwise unpalatable concepts. "Enhanced interrogation techniques", for example.

 

Yeah.

Maybe a less contentious example than the one you gave would be terms that get changed to a different euphemism every generation due to negative connotation. For example, and I'm not even sure if this is up to date, but now we use "intellectual disability", when before it was mentally challenged, mentally retarded before that, before that there were words like idiot and imbecile that were actually standard terms used by professionals, but then became obvious insults.

Same thing with disabled. Handicapped before that, crippled before that.

Sometimes it's not about meaning, it is about sounding nice. Not that I have a problem with that. I'm pretty sure some very hurtful words that count as a real grievance fall under this. See the JCC's Disallowed Word List for reference.

Though I agree, political correctness certainly exists, to be real, usually when I see people whine about political correctness, it's not because they used an outdated term, it's because they just said something exceptionally intolerant or prejudiced (use your imagination). So.

But I did find it amusing that the article dismisses the very existence of political correctness...because it's dismissive.

 

Yep of all the pointless waste in the movie, her just getting offed has to be most severe.

 

Zam was TOTALLY underused! Plus she had some hilarious dialogue in the EU (even if she was in what, 3 things?). It's too bad she's from that weird time period right before AOTC, when the EU is sort of dull and un-warsy and most authors shy away from dealing it.

 

It's not like there was all that much time in which to write stuff, before AoTC came out. Hence, it was mostly comics and children's books written in that period.

Notable exception - Zahn wrote in that in-between period after AOTC and ROTS (Outbound Flight).

 

True. The thing is, it seems nobody* wants to go back to it cuz it's not glamorous or epic like TCW or Imps vs Rebels. At least Republic comics realized it could be used as a way to show all the chaos and pirating going on in the more outer Rims that set the basis for the Clone Wars (the Stark Hyperspace War was actually a really good idea to set a "war" during the "peace" time, come to think of it). But now nobody* really wants to write for that era again, so characters that could have had potential to do more, like Zam and Jango, are probably going to be left with Legends-exclusive backgrounds.


*Nobody, excluding Luceno, who has probably written the encyclopedic Tales of Everyone in the Old Republic which he takes excerpts from for every book he writes.

 

Maybe we'll finally get a Yoda backstory, a name for his species, and their planet? There's lots of things in that period that Disney might think of as opportunities to showcase.

 

The pre-AOTC period also got shafted in another way. The stuff from 1999 to 2001 was set in the first few years after TPM, since no one knew the status quo of the next movie and they didn't want to get ahead of themselves. Understandable. But then Lucasfilm started coughing up the scripts, designs, etc and in late 2001 suddenly everything jumped to a year or two before AOTC, leaving 28 - 24 sparse and unlikely to be revisited.

 

I hope not. I don't want everything explained to me. He's wise and mysterious. The end.

 

So you're saying...ignorance is bliss?

 

Michael Fassbender Frontrunner for Boba Fett

If this is true, then congratulations to them for no-prizing the whitewashing of Boba Fett with young Magneto.

 

...yeah, that is not the role I would want Fassbender playing in the SW universe (he would make a kickass Imperial officer IMO). Unless the real Boba Fett shows up at the end and kills Fassbender!Fett, who turns out to be Jodo Kast.

 

Well let us just hope he never takes of the helmet, as it should be in a Boba movie.

 

It's starwarsunderworld. That's a pretty seriously kriffing big "if".

 

The source is the same iKwiz site that "broke" the rumor in the first place. Not believing that for a second.