When Political Correctness Became Prospective
November 30, 2021
By NZB3
Papanui-Innes Community Board, Christchurch, are so Woke that they’re cancelling the memorialisation of people at the meta level, before they’re even disgraced!
This is a new level of anti-human and anti-achievement and anti-recognition. It’s like something out of the Victimhood Culture from 20 years in the future but here we are.
“A new development in Christchurch will not bear the name of local hero award winner Chris Walsh after a heated debate on the issue of naming roads after people.” – Development won’t bear name of Christchurch businessman, Star News (Nov 2021)
“How typical of our current mainstream, the Millennial Generation, not to take the world as they find it and work to make it a better one. Instead they tantrum and moan that our ancestors haven’t already done it all for them.” – Generational Accretion, AHNZ
We’ve reached the point now where we can look back nostalgically to the good old days. Remember them? When we tore down statues and un-named things after we found fault with our ancestors. We waited until our political outlook changed and *then* attacked our dead ancestors for not thinking of it first. We defaced and tore out Captain Cook’s statue in Gisbourne while in Martin they boxed him. We un-named glaciers, we accommodated the Woke by scrapping Hamilton’s statue from Hamilton. We paid Vincent O’Malley $10,000 to find some more ancestors in disgrace so we could cancel them as well. Rotorua Boys’ High deleted their once proud House names after 93 years. Sound bad? No! These are now the good old days.
That Political Correctness was retrospective and that was bad enough. Now Political Correctness has become prospective.
This is like something Ellsworth Toohey in the book The Fountainhead wishes he came up with. This is the policemen in the Tom Cruise film Minority Report who have left crime-fighting behind and moved on to what they call pre-crime; They arrest/kill citizens for crimes The State thinks will happen before they happen.
Memorials are the debt dignity pays to virtue. By cancelling memorialisation per se are are cancelling the debt we owe. We are free-riding on services rendered while denying that we can and should pay it back. In financial terms this is called being morally bankrupt. Rather than rebuke an individual’s achievement it’s an attack on individual achievement itself, a moratorium on recognising it even if we see it.
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Ref. At least Ali Jones is on the right side of an issue this time, unlike the last time I checked in with her; Ref. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who judges the councillors?
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