Recently another Celeb, Liam Neeson, is under attack for sharing a story about a time when he had non politically correct thoughts PERSONALLY. This story seemed in no way to encourage or promote any type of harm to anyone, but yet, by just sharing honestly what he was feeling, he is being run through it much like Kevin Hart for making a non pc joke about his son and homosexuality.

http://news.yahoo.com/liam-neeson-denies-racism-hunting-black-men-attack-190441412.html


Are these type of 'scandals' overreaching, oversimplified, and socially bullying people into silence about their experiences and feelings?

In both cases, these men spoke about something PERSONALLY happening TO THEM, and relayed it in a way that reflected how they were feeling. But neither spoke ill of any group of people in general, none of the promoted any harm or exclusion of any group.

Am I the only one that feels context is being purposefully ignored more and more in favor of looking to be offended or report a scandal?

I think the most illuminating thing to do, is to step back a couple of paces from all the scandal mongering that has gone on throughout human history, and look for why the people doing the "mongering" are putting their energy into it.

The primary or source reason that I have seen why people jump on opportunities to declare some person to be horrible, for pretty much ANY immediate reason, is due to their actual hope of gaining traction with an often entirely unrelated personally profitable goal of their own.

It is the sensed duplicity of it all, that upsets many people the most, even though they don't put their finger directly on either the duplicity, or on the goals that the duplicity is hiding, when they make their complaints.

People who complain about "too much political correctness" are especially susceptible, oddly enough, to being tricked into supporting the HIDDEN agendas of the people who are pointing directly AT the "political correctness" problems.

The same phenomenon happens to those who get derisively referred to as "SJW's" (Social Justice Warriors).

Once a person becomes excited about the knowledge that injustice is loose in the world, they all too often are prone to accepting ANYTHING they hear from the "victim" side, and actually ABSOLVE the "victim" of pretty much any real crimes they might have committed that are independent of whatever is being done to them unjustly.

It all essentially goes back to what many of us experienced in early childhood, where we tried to escape punishment for our OWN wrongdoing, by pointing out some error by our siblings or friends.

It is sadly not at all a new phenomenon, but we do seem to be going through an especially egregious version of it lately, wherein we are not only being called to EXCUSE the bad behavior of one person or group, due to flaws in their critics, we are being asked to EMBRACE AND SUPPORT the wrongdoing of the people who's opponents have been shown to have errors on their own side of things.

It is the embrace of real errors and abuse, that I myself find most upsetting.