In Reply to: Re: What???!!!! posted by susie on October 08, 2006 at 23:18:26:
Actaully, I have a similar problem myself. Not so much here, but sometimes here also, yes. (Within the last day or so, I managed to rock the boat on another website. I'm learning as I go.)
When I'm feeling very passionate about something, as sometimes happens as a consequence of my own religious fervor and sense of mission, I'll speak out without thinking about the different kinds of life experiences that others bring to what I'm saying.
It helps to know the people in your reading audience. Even when I have a good idea of where all the sensitivities lay, sometimes I feel like the point I want to make is worth offending a few people. Mostly, I just don't think things out and speak in a truthful moment of passion. I try to do the same thing you do, which is to back off and speak more gently when people start pushing back at me.
To me, this is what "PC" means: There's no reason to antagonize people. It doesn't serve any good purpose. I don't change my point of view just because someone's touchy about a subject, asks me to back off, and I show respect for their feelings. I just wait for another time, another opportunity, and (most important) another way to share my perspective on matters of morality and spiritual truth. Sometimes, I even change my mind about what I felt so strongly about to begin with. It never hurts to take a time out and think things over.
I see all these things as the art of group politics. That's politics with a little "p".