Re: [Fwd: Re: Shaming Redux (was Re: [Fwd: Culture and Technology (was Re: Abortion, Killing etc)]]

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Most of what Doug and Katha have said on this expresses my own
views -- but that is mostly because of the particular cases at issue,
which have involved the question of whether someone should be
gratuitously shamed for behavior that most of us think is either
strictly or merely private. I'm wondering, then, how generalizable
the perspective is. Don't most of us, for example, react in some
fairly negative (shaming?) way to racist or homophobic jokes?
The attack on "political correctness" (i.e., the attack on simple
decency) is, among other things, an attempt to shame people into
not shaming racism or sexism. So there are contradictions
involved here at some point.

Carrol