How over-correction of some gender and race issues is a ticking time bomb
THE PURGE may become a reality with the way things are going.
Races/Ethnicities hunting each other
Genders hunting down the “privileged” gender
It wont just be eat the rich anymore but anyone perceived as having an easier or privileged life.
WHY?
For the last 2–3 decades but especially in recent times, the West has been in a state of Overcorrection, Socially and Politically. The narrative has people passionately trying to change the status quo in gender and race. Women have been held back, so we need to give them more power. Black people have been discriminated against, so we have to give them a pass in the right to be angry and act out, property damage is fine.
What started as noble causes for equality of opportunity has led to a state of Overcorrection.
To Overcorrect is to make too much of a correction: to adjust too much in attempting to offset an error, miscalculation, or problem.
If a plane or a ship is going off course and the Captain or Navigator, overcorrects, they may end up crashing and killing everyone on board.
While there is a need to encourage more women to get into certain spaces, via incentives, programmes, it is leading to boys being left behind or even intentionally excluded.
Dr Warren Farrell in his TED talk called it The Boys Crisis. Professor Christina Hoff Sommers called it The War on Boys describing it as “a ticking time bomb”.
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What about their future and the fallout for the society of a mass undereducated or functionally illiterate male population?
What does this mean for relationships, the nuclear family, male mentors for sons and daughters in the workplace, Fathers parenting, innovation or traditional male roles society has always relied on?
Organizations and Cooperations are handing out jobs to minorities groups so they can meet virtue-signalling quotas for good press releases and social media posts. Affirmative action on steroids.
Academic standards are being lowered, effectively punishing Asian students across America for being amongst the highest achievers, in order to balance out minority enrolment and representation in Universities. What does that mean for the next century in science, innovation etc
While fixing one problem, overcorrection leads to another; creating a new set of people who’ll need help in the future, continuing the vicious cycle.
This also happens in personal and social lives.
How we Parent: Punishing a child for being hyperactive and in the process, breaking their spirit and making them docile.
Reacting to heartbreak by building walls emotionally and socially.
After betrayal, becoming hyper-paranoid is an overcorrection from what was interpreted as being too naive.
Cancel Culture is a prime example of the dangers overcorrection presents.
Going to the extreme to fix one problem, (real or perceived) and end up creating another one.
Wanting to empower or rescue a demographic from an issue but punishing another in the process as if it’s a zero-sum game, usually fuelled by feelings, a misguided sense of justice and propaganda.
It may take years before we see the full collateral damage of overcorrection but by then it may be too late.
