The Main Objective Of Good Op/Ed Blogging Is Resisting Political Correctness At All Costs.

Most of the writers I like to read here on beBee and over in The Lumpy Kingdom of the Mighty Microsoft Hamsters are the people who have steadfastly refused to allow political correctness to affect their work.
The majority of these people are professional writers or gifted amateurs and tend not to let any social or political conventions get in the way of the points they are trying to make.
These are writers who all possess or have developed styles of writing that reflect their unique personalities. So when you read their work you not only get their point of view, but a pretty good impression of who they are as people too.
A lot of people have remarked that they assume the experience of reading their work is not all that dissimilar from having an actual conversation with them.
I can confirm this in a few cases.
I firmly believe that writers who can get their true nature across every time out of the gate are the writers who will build a solid following and develop the subsequent personal and business relationships needed to make all this effort worth the time and dedication it actually takes.

The Good Old 80/20 Differential

The writers who get bogged down in political correctness and not strongly expressing their point of view are the ones who constitute the 80% in what I call the 80/20 Differential.

In many posts that I have read, these people very much appear to be trying almost too hard to say the right things to those whom they perceive to be their audience. They take pains to avoid offending anyone. They try to be fair and just in their assessments. And seldom, if ever, do they draw conclusions.
This is not a criticism, and it only would be if these people were not working to the best of their abilities which, of course they are.
Everybody is trying hard. It’s just that some writers don’t worry about political correctness. They realize that if you want to make an omelette, you have to break a few eggs, enjoy challenging accepted norms and thrive on being, to a greater or less extent, shit disturbers.
Not everybody has that in them.
In all deference to the politically correct, the simple fact is that it takes many years of concerted effort to undo all the bullshit that we have had crammed into our heads…by the education system, by the corporate world and by the conservative ethos.
But some of us work through it and around it. And for a good deal of time, because it’s really uphill work.

But you know…it’s worth it. It’s worth it to be able to call a spade a spade. To rant about hypocrisy. To attack the charlatans and carpetbaggers and trolls who pollute our intellectual fiefdoms. To respond forcefully to people with pickles up their asses. And there are so many of them around these days.
There is not a writer I know of who has not worked hard to find his or her voice.
So when someone points out what they think is the political incorrectness of anything they are saying, within reason of course, these people need to be prepared for a little bit of snarling to say the least.
I was watching the great TV journalist Ted Koppel a couple nights ago and the essence of what he was saying was that political correctness has become a bit of a plague and that plague is what has lead to a complete breakdown in communication between the liberals and the conservatives in America.
I would say that it’s not unique to America these days...it's freakin' everywhere.
If a writer, any writer. writes something and it’s disturbing enough to you that you want to cough up a politicallycorrect furball, I would strongly argue that you could be A) Not really understanding the point that is being made and/or B) Are really only interested in countering the writer’s point with your own in the hope of making him or her look wrong.
This is not, I repeat, not the way constructive conversations start.

Writers Are Provocative By Nature.

They want to push your buttons, not to attack whatever you happen to believe, but to show your their point of view and get you to think a little, and discuss things, instead of having people jump down their throats with some ill-reasoned, reflexive, dogma laden crud.
So here’s the thing. Everybody is entitled to their point of view. But everybody needs to be aware that their point of view is not the only stuff out there.
We need to get back to constructive, as opposed to destructive, criticism in our society. I admit that it’s going to be hard work, but at the end of the day the only other option will be intellectual anarchy.

Some Of The Good Writers I Am Lucky Enough Know

Don 🐝 Kerrr, Kevin Pashuk, Kevin Pashuk, Robert Cormack, Phil Friedman, Donna-Luisa Eversley, Robert Cormack Gerald Hecht (although he would never admit it), Gert Scholtz, Ian Mirlin, Renée 🐝 Cormier, Donna-Luisa Eversley , Nick Dachris , Chas ✌️ Wyatt, Jerry Fletcher, Sandra 🐝 Smith, Gerald Hecht, Peter Altschuler, Paul WaltersMartin WrightRenée 🐝 Cormier

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