[Madame Warlock]

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Originally Posted by Skoob

Permit me to interject:

It's important to distinguish between 'tolerance' and 'acceptance.' Political correctness in popular culture tends deliberately to blur that distinction, resulting in a warm, fuzzy, glib message of 'universal acceptance,' failing to acknowledge our duty as individuals in a free society to think critically and form our own unique values and opinions, necessarily rejecting some in favor of others.

Too many people are like walking receptacles, accepting any little bit of spoon-fed political correctness or propaganda, like apps to a cell phone. Healthy societies encourage critical thought.

That is NOT the same as being intolerant! Everybody should have the right to go about their daily lives free of bullying. Permit me to rephrase Joe's statement above: "you can be tolerant of others without agreeing with them on something."

Paraphrasing Louise's point, if there is something you find unacceptable in popular culture, let the market speak: take your money elsewhere.

Most anti-PC types are actually very staunchly and sometimes aggressively anti-critical, though. They often view critical race or gender theory as part of "Political Correctness" and do their best to shut it down.

You can still have critical discussion while being respectful of disadvantaged people. The majority of things that are "politically incorrect" aren't exactly useful in a real discussion.

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Originally Posted by Louise Belcher

It's clearly a political language; empowering, acceptance. " a world that offers eternal love, not judement at those who are brave enough to be themselves"- we all know what this is implied. I also don't understand how you can encourage individuality and at the same time have to accpet everyone/everything and not be allowed to criticize?! Anyway, Lady GaGa isn't what I'd like to call a positive children role model.

this is exactly the problem with anti-SJWs, "we all know what's implied!" people act like they're only against some nebulous idea of "extremist" social justice but in reality they just want to poop all over nice things.

that said I don't have much hope for this. I'm a fan of the Monster High animations, and some of the toys. Some of the movies do have good messages. But they're all still stick thin with conventionally attractive figures, they're all cis and straight(when the whole monster thing would have given them a fun platform to explore that) and able bodied(well, there's Finnegan Wake, but still.)

I wish they'd just outright say Ghoulia is autistic because I identify with her so much. Quite I, too, communicate in nothing but groans and awkward hand movements.