It is sort of like watching Disney cartoons and believing in them as your religion. On one level this isn't a bad thing it is just that the real world is really going to mess you up over time.
"Everyone is harmed by all sorts of people in their lives". Another way to put this is: "We allow oursevlves to be victimized in all sorts of ways". The first is a childish point of view and the second is a fully adult point of view and they are both right in some situations.
But, after you are about 21 if you keep blaming any other people but yourself for your problems and conditions you will never have a life or be a success no matter what race you are and no matter what sex you are.
So, becoming an adult is about taking responsibility for everything in your own life and moving forwards.
And if you get all caught up in the idealism of Political Correctness the problem becomes like believing in Disney cartoons where the boy and the girl always get together and live happily ever after. For 95% of us this never happens. And 1/3 of people are always unhappy in life no matter what they tell you. This is just the way it is.
And it actually has less to do with race or sex than you might imagine. There are simply people who will never give up no matter what and often they succeed and the rest of the people just make excuses or live in a fantasy about what the world is all about and don't ever live in a reality.
Most people say all sorts of things they really don't feel or believe in. But, successful people realize political correctness is all really a bullshit fantasyland and anyone who has been victimized or felt victimized for any reason is going to feel sexism or racism no matter what anyone says or does.
And people who are able to see the world as it really is and who are as kind to others as they can be and still survive all this and move on are going to succeed. And the rest who get too caught up in political correctness just stay kind of lost the rest of their lives living in a Disney movie forever and might never be happy ever in their lives.
So, political correctness is a fantasy and a lie and taking it for reality just leads towards your early death and that's all.
The real world is not a nice place in the end and pretending it is doesn't really keep you or me alive. Does it?
In the end about 500 years from now Political correctness like diplomacy between nations might lead to something completely different than life is like now. But, it won't be anything like you even want it to be now.
And even then people will have to separate truth from fiction to be successful in their lives then too. And all the idealistic people believing in Political correctness will all off themselves by 25 or 30 either directly as in dead or indirectly as never being able to make a success of their lives just like now.
So, the sooner everyone can learn to be compassionate to themselves and all others and to try to go beyond any victimization they felt real or imagined, the sooner the world can get to somewhere we all want to be together.
So, if you have friends, cherish them because that is what matters in the end.
When you are in your late 60s like me and all your parents and aunts and uncles and most of your cousins have died, your friends are one of the most precious things you have left in life along with any children or grandchildren you might have.
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