GMP’s Editor-in-Chief Noah Brand talks about community-building, page views, and feminism in an interview on business news site The Jane Dough.
Noah Brand shared his personal opinions on a variety of subjects today on women’s business news site The Jane Dough.
Here’s an excerpt:
TJD: How do you expect the site to change and grow in the coming months? What are your editorial priorities, so to speak?
NB: I find that the phrase I keep repeating in conference calls is “positive and empowering”. Men are socialized to repress our emotions and not communicate openly, so creating a space where men can talk openly about grief, about love, about stress and fear, or just about the goofy little moments that make up life, is in itself empowering. There are an awful lot of things that have gone untalked-about; we’re working to change that.
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TJD: I noticed that you recently aired some grievances over the internet commenting situation on The Good Men Project. How do you deal with the pushback when you call out racism and sexism?
NB: “Political correctness” is the name for common courtesy and human decency used by people who are opposed to courtesy and decency. If someone doesn’t feel bound by any social obligation not to be a hateful jerk, I figure the best thing to do is simply point that out. It’s not just that they want to be racist and sexist, they don’t want to be looked down on for it. They want our sanction for their hate, so I figure the easiest solution is to simply withhold that sanction and continue to point out that they are rude, hateful people.
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For the full interview, visit The Jane Dough.
The one thing I would advise is to ensure a consistent definition of “hate” and “sexism”, no matter the ideology of the speaker, and thereby avoid any appearance of bias, agenda promotion, or a blind spot for those whose ideology matches his and/or those moderating. For instance, while discussing the importance of “courtesy and decency”, Mr. Brand called others “hateful jerks.” Huh? By what standard is derisive name considered “courtesy and decency?” Is it “courtesy and decency” when one person does it but not when another does it? Derisive name calling (e.g. hateful jerk) is, in my opinion, rude and… Read more »
McCarthy era political correctness had a different meaning, PC in communist countries has a different meaning.
Politically correctness in the west is a set of racist and sexist double standards that sanctions hate against politically incorrect groups, which is not much different from the application in communist countries.
That’s why stupid commentary against one group shows up as very serious, while the equivalent or worse against another group by a politically correct group will fly under the radar or register as correct in the mind of someone that has incorporated PC ideology.