#7: The Dangers of Political Correctness
The Game Changer Life
Dave Anderson
4.9 • 550 Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2017
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Dave outlines examples and remedies to combat how political correctness has gone too far and caused: unhealthy compromises, an absence of absolutes, the diminishing of excellence, and a denial of reality that can cause you and others to settle for less than the Game Changer Life. He discusses getting back to common-sense principles like "earn" and "deserve," and giving your best to the best and less to the rest. This one is not for the thin-skinned.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Game Changer Life. I'm Dave Anderson. I want to talk to you about the dangers of political |
| 0:22.8 | correctness. Well, where do we begin? I mean, political correctness would have you believe it |
| 0:28.4 | is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end. Well, that'll kind of get your attention |
| 0:34.4 | if you were dozing. But that's one of my points. |
| 0:38.0 | Political correctness is dishonest. |
| 0:40.1 | It takes what's good and can make it bad. |
| 0:42.8 | It takes what's bad and tends to make it good and acceptable. |
| 0:47.1 | It causes a lot of compromises. |
| 0:49.3 | It eliminates absolutes because we don't want someone to feel like they've lost. |
| 0:54.0 | And heaven forbid somebody actually feel like they've lost and heaven forbid somebody |
| 0:55.5 | actually feel like they've actually won something and might get the superiority complex and |
| 1:00.5 | we feel like we need to have participation trophies which are entirely dishonest that recognize |
| 1:06.3 | people for you know showing up but not for stepping up. I mean, a participation trophy, it's this, |
| 1:13.8 | if I could write the definition in the dictionary, here's, it would say something like this, |
| 1:18.8 | I don't know exactly, but probably something like this, a farcical mockery of performance |
| 1:23.4 | designed to blow smoke up the backside of the undeserving, to make them think they're something |
| 1:28.8 | they're not and owed something they're not owed. So dangers of political correctness. We compromise, |
| 1:37.2 | we trivialize, we don't have absolutes anymore. You know what I mean by that. No right, no wrong. |
| 1:45.4 | Okay, there's an absolute. There's right, there's wrong. Okay. But political correctness, everything is kind of cool, right? We shouldn't, of course, be judgmental. So you just do what's right in your own eyes. So there's no right, there's no wrong. There's no winning. There's no losing. Right? Everybody gets a trophy. There's no success, there's no failure. Okay, there's just showing up. There's not stepping up. |
| 2:03.2 | How does that get people ready for life? right? Everybody gets a trophy. There's no success. There's no failure. Okay, there's just showing up. |
| 2:02.3 | There's not stepping up. How does that get people ready for life? How does that get people prepared |
| 2:07.6 | to go out and make a living and support their family and excel in the workplace and live a game |
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