If you think about it, “This issue was around 30 years ago, therefore it’s a non-issue” is a pretty bizarre argument. Are #MeToo problems made up because Newsweek and Time had cover stories about sexual harassment in the 1990s when Anita Hill came forward with accusations against Clarence Thomas? Is our “national reckoning” on race just a recycling of the “national conversation on race” urged by Bill Clinton in the mid-1990s? And so on.
'Political Correctness' Déjà Vu?
One trope used to dismiss concerns about overzealous “wokeness,” “cancel culture,” etc. as made-up problems (and/or right-wing agitprop swallowed by gullible people left of center) is that this issue is just a recycled version of the 1990s battles over “political correctness.”
If you think about it, “This issue was around 30 years ago, therefore it’s a non-issue” is a pretty bizarre argument. Are #MeToo problems made up because Newsweek and Time had cover stories about sexual harassment in the 1990s when Anita Hill came forward with accusations against Clarence Thomas? Is our “national reckoning” on race just a recycling of the “national conversation on race” urged by Bill Clinton in the mid-1990s? And so on.
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If you think about it, “This issue was around 30 years ago, therefore it’s a non-issue” is a pretty bizarre argument. Are #MeToo problems made up because Newsweek and Time had cover stories about sexual harassment in the 1990s when Anita Hill came forward with accusations against Clarence Thomas? Is our “national reckoning” on race just a recycling of the “national conversation on race” urged by Bill Clinton in the mid-1990s? And so on.
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