What party or parties are responsible for establishing social norms?

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Hi. For a long time I have wondered about this. Social norms exist to help people get along with others, especially when they are out in public.

The whole reason political correctness was instilled in the first place was because some party or parties wanted to establish what is considered socially acceptable or not. There is a party or party who deems what's okay or not okay for people to do. There is some party or parties that decided what was socially acceptable decades ago is no longer socially acceptable now.

Who are the so-called "powers that be" that are responsible for this?

Please help. Thank you.

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@McGentrix,

What does any of what you posted have to do with what I asked?

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@JGoldman10,

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Clearly, The Socialist Party is in charge of setting social norms.

Actually, it is not one party; rather, it is all parties working together to make the best decision for the constituency. At least in theory.

NOW, if one party creates a bunch of laws and regulations and proposals which the constituents don't like, the constituents can vote them out of office and hand the power to another party. One which has said that they will revert back to what existed before, and maybe even do other things to brighten up the lives of the people.

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@Sturgis,

There's a Socialist Party within the U.S. who is responsible for establishing social norms and political correctness?

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@JGoldman10,

Read further in my post. The second paragraph began 'Actually". It was followed with a detailed explanation of how things are done.

The comment on The Socialist Party being in charge was meant As humor. if that sailed over your head, then I don't know what to say.

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@Sturgis,

Are these parties government groups or advocacy groups?

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@Sturgis,

Social norms are not decided by any political party or group of authority figures. These norms s are somewhat akin to how fashion trends evolve... (i.e. by popularity...sort of a word-of-mouth) fairly will-nilly - almost the way language and slang words evolve.

(Psst, Sturgis...humor is an elusive characteristic and is a subtlety that is not necessarily understood in some parts. It requires someone to be well RED. cough, cough. Socialism...cough)

Munching popcorn and watching the show.

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@Ragman,

(Oops,, meant to do Reply to All.)

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@JGoldman10,

The answer is a bit complex. There is no one single Illuminati esque group controlling how the world works for centuries.

Changes in society depend on various factors: economy, leadership, geography, war, demographics, technology, etc.

Even now, because of the pandemic, there are new social norms regarding hygiene, communication, and travel.

Is there any particular social norm that has fallen out of favor that you still prefer?

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@Rebelofnj,

No one said anything about any Illuminati-esque groups.

Who in America decides what's okay and not okay for Americans to do?

There are certain things people used to do decades ago that they couldn't do now without getting penalized for it.

For example, it used to be fashionable or socially acceptable to make jokes about homosexuality because that was something looked down upon. You can't do that now because LGBTQIA advocacy groups will be after you.

You can't be publicly racist, especially on social media, and not get penalized for it. Look what happened to people like Hulk Hogan, or Roseanne Barr or Rachel Ray or Micheal Richards or Gilbert Godfrey. I don't know if people could get away with being publicly racist decades ago; I don't know.

This isn't necessary a racial thing. I've read accounts of some African Americans who've lost their jobs or got in trouble some other kind of way because they were publicly racist.

The reason a comedian like Dave Chappelle can do racist jokes is he's not doing it with malicious intent. People know he's joking.

There are things people used to do that they can't can't do now because of "snowflakes".

I remember reading an account of some East Indian/Middle Eastern comedian who was either a cast member of SNL or a writer of that show, and was invited to do standup in front a college crowd somewhere. He got in trouble because the audience was getting offended by the jokes he was telling and he was asked to leave.

This is the reason Jerry Seinfeld and Chris Rock said they don't do standup in front of college crowds anymore; college kids get TOO easily offended these days. This has to do with political correctness.

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@Rebelofnj,

Are advocacy groups part of the government?

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I think people are forgetting about the FCC. That's a government group. Censors try to control what creators do and what people watch, read or listen to.

What group or groups control what people read if it's not the FCC? I know the FCC controls what people watch and listen to.

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@JGoldman10,

So, are you suggesting you want to make homophobic and racist jokes without repercussions?

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@JGoldman10,

JGoldman10 wrote:

No one said anything about any Illuminati-esque groups.

Who in America decides what's okay and not okay for Americans to do?

There are certain things people used to do decades ago that they couldn't do now without getting penalized for it.

For example, it used to be fashionable or socially acceptable to make jokes about homosexuality because that was something looked down upon. You can't do that now because LGBTQIA advocacy groups will be after you.

You can't be publicly racist, especially on social media, and not get penalized for it. Look what happened to people like Hulk Hogan, or Roseanne Barr or Rachel Ray or Micheal Richards or Gilbert Godfrey. I don't know if people could get away with being publicly racist decades ago or not; I don't know if there were any rules about that or not back then.

This isn't necessary a racial thing. I've read accounts of some African Americans who've lost their jobs or got in trouble some other kind of way because they were publicly racist.

The reason a comedian like Dave Chappelle can do racist jokes is he's not doing it with malicious intent. People know he's joking.

There are things people used to do that they can't can't do now because of "snowflakes".

I remember reading an account of some East Indian/Middle Eastern comedian who was either a cast member of SNL or a writer of that show, and was invited to do standup in front a college crowd somewhere. He got in trouble because the audience was getting offended by the jokes he was telling and he was asked to leave.

This is the reason Jerry Seinfeld and Chris Rock said they don't do standup in front of college crowds anymore; college kids get TOO easily offended these days. This has to do with political correctness.

-FIXED.

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@Rebelofnj,

No. I'm a Christian. I don't want to do racist and/or homophobic jokes. I couldn't do that in good conscience.

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@JGoldman10,

Then why are you bemoaning the fact people don't make those kind of jokes anymore?

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@Rebelofnj,

I was making a point about censorship and control. There is a group or groups responsible for censorship and controlling entertainment.

The Comics Code Authority came about because they wanted to censor and control comic book content.

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@JGoldman10,

That was your lot that did that. Control freak Christians who objected to 1950s horror comics.

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