Let's try emotional correctness | Sally Kohn

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So when I do my job, people hate me.

Kad obavljam svoj posao, ljudi me mrze.

In fact, the better I do my job,

Zapravo, što bolje obavljam svoj posao,

the more people hate me.

ljudi me više mrze.

Ali ne, ne radim na parkiralištu,

And no, I'm not a meter maid,

niti pokapam ljude.

and I'm not an undertaker.

Ja sam progresivna lezbijka koja izvještava

I am a progressive, lesbian talking head on Fox News.

na televiziji Fox News. (Pljesak)

(Applause)

So y'all heard that, right? Just to make sure, right?

Svi ste to čuli, zar ne? Samo da ponovim, može?

I am a gay talking head on Fox News.

Ja sam gay voditeljica na Fox News-u.

I am going to tell you how I do it,

Ispričat ću vam kako radim taj posao

and the most important thing I've learned.

i najvažniju stvar koju sam pritom naučila.

So I go on television.

Tako vam ja stanem pred kamere.

I debate people who literally want to obliterate everything I believe in --

Prepirem se s ljudima koji doslovno žele uništiti

sve u što vjerujem, u nekim slučajevima

in some cases, who don't want me and people like me to even exist.

s onima koji ne žele da ja i ljudi poput mene uopće postoje.

It's sort of like Thanksgiving with your conservative uncle

To je poput Dana zahvalnosti sa vašim konzervativnim ujakom

na steroidima,

on steroids,

with a live television audience of millions.

sa publikom koja se broji u milijunima.

It's totally almost just like that.

Totalno je skoro tako.

And that's just on air.

A to je samo uživo.

The hate mail I get is unbelievable.

Ne biste vjerovali koliko pisama mržnje mi pristižu.

Last week alone, I got 238 pieces of nasty email

Samo prošlog tjedna mi je pristiglo 238 gadnih mailova

and more hate tweets than I can even count.

a broj tweetova se ne bi dao prebrojati.

I was called an idiot, a traitor, a scourge,

Nazvali su me idiotom, izdajicom, kaznom,

a cunt and an ugly man,

kujom i ružnim muškarcem,

and that was just in one email.

i to sve samo u jednom e-mailu.

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

So what have I realized,

No do kojeg sam zaključka došla

being on the receiving end of all this ugliness?

bivajući izložena svoj toj neljubaznosti?

Well, my biggest takeaway

Pa, moj najveći zaključak je da se već desetljećima

is that for decades, we've been focused on political correctness,

fokusiramo na političku korektnost,

but what matters more is emotional correctness.

ali ono što je važnije je emocionalna korektnost.

Let me give you a small example.

Dat ću vam jedan primjer.

I don't care if you call me a dyke. I really don't.

Nije me briga zove te li me lezbom (dyke), zaista nije.

I care about two things.

Ono do čega mi je stalo su dvije stvari.

Prvo, da to znate ispravno napisati.

One, I care that you spell it right.

(Laughter) (Applause)

(Smijeh) (Pljesak)

Just quick refresher, it's D-Y-K-E.

Brzi podsjetnik, piše se D-Y-K-E.

You'd totally be surprised.

Ne biste vjerovali.

And second, I don't care about the word, I care about how you use it.

I druga stvar, nije me briga za tu riječ,

važno mi je na koji način je upotrebljavate.

Are you being friendly? Are you just being naive?

Jeste li ljubazni? Ili ste samo naivni?

Or do you really want to hurt me personally?

Ili me zaista želite povrijediti na osobnoj razini?

Emotional correctness is the tone, the feeling,

Emocionalna korektnost jest ton, osjećaj,

how we say what we say,

način na koji se izražavamo,

the respect and compassion we show one another.

poštovanje i suosjećanje jedan prema drugome.

And what I've realized is that political persuasion

A ono što sam shvatila jest da politička uvjerljivost

doesn't begin with ideas or facts or data.

ne počinje s idejama ili činjenicama ili podatcima.

Political persuasion begins with being emotionally correct.

Politička uvjerljivost počinje s emocionalnom koreknosti.

So when I first went to go work at Fox News,

Tako da kad sam prvi put došla raditi za televiziju Fox News,

true confession,

ovo je potpuno istinito,

I expected there to be marks in the carpet

očekivala sam da će tamo biti tragovi na tepihu

from all the knuckle-dragging.

od povlačenja ruku po podu.

That, by the way, in case you're paying attention, is not emotionally correct.

U slučaju da niste pozorno pratili, to nije emocionalna korektnost.

But liberals on my side,

Ali liberali na mojoj strani, poslušajte,

we can be self-righteous, we can be condescending,

mi znamo biti pravednici, znamo gledati ljude s visoka,

we can be dismissive of anyone who doesn't agree with us.

znamo biti odrješiti prema svakome tko se ne slaže s nama.

In other words, we can be politically right

Drugim riječima, politički možemo biti u pravu,

but emotionally wrong.

no emocionalno u krivu.

I posljedično, to znači da

And incidentally, that means that people don't like us. Right?

nas ljudi ne vole. Zar ne?

E ovdje je sad iznenađenje.

Now here's the kicker.

Konzervativci su zaista dragi.

Conservatives are really nice.

I mean, not all of them,

Mislim, ne svi,

i ne oni koji mi šalju ružne mailove,

and not the ones who send me hate mail,

but you would be surprised.

ali ostali biste iznenađeni.

Sean Hannity is one of the sweetest guys I've ever met.

Sean Hannity je jedan od najsimpatičnijih momaka

kojeg sam ikada upoznala.

He spends his free time trying to fix up his staff on blind dates,

On u svoje slobodno vrijeme

pokusava dogovoriti sudare na slijepo svojim zaposlenicima,

i znam da ukoliko bih se našla u problemima,

and I know that if I ever had a problem,

on bi učinio sve što bi mogao da mi pomogne.

he would do anything he could to help.

Now, I think Sean Hannity is 99 percent politically wrong,

Ipak, mislim da je Sean Hannity

99 posto politički u krivu,

no njegova emocionalna korektnost je šokantno zadivljujuća,

but his emotional correctness is strikingly impressive.

And that's why people listen to him.

i to je razlog zašto ga ljudi slušaju.

Because you can't get anyone to agree with you

Jer ne možete nikog navesti da se slaže s vama

ako vas prvo ne slušaju

if they don't even listen to you first.

We spend so much time talking past each other

Provodimo toliko mnogo vremena pričajući jedni pored drugih

and not enough time talking through our disagreements.

i nedovoljno vremena pričajući kroz naše nesuglasice,

And if we can start to find compassion for one another,

i ukoliko uspijemo pronaći suosjećajnost jedni za druge,

then we have a shot at building common ground.

onda imamo šansu izgraditi zajedničko tlo.

It actually sounds really hokey to say it standing up here,

To zapravo zvuči nategnuto,

tako reći stojeći ovdje,

but when you try to put it in practice,

ali kada to pokušate sprovesti u djelo,

it's really powerful.

zaista je moćno.

So someone who says they hate immigrants,

Netko tko kaže da mrzi useljenike,

I try to imagine how scared they must be

mogu zamisliti kako su uplašeni

that their community is changing from what they've always known.

kako se njihova zajednica mijenja od onoga što su uvijek znali.

Or someone who says they don't like teachers' unions,

Ili netko tko kaže da ne vole sindikate učitelja,

I bet they're really devastated to see their kid's school going into the gutter,

sigurno su razočarani kada vide

da im djetetova škola propada,

i traže nekog koga će okriviti.

and they're just looking for someone to blame.

Our challenge is to find the compassion for others

Naš izazov je naći suosjećanje za druge

koje želimo da osjećaju za nas.

that we want them to have for us.

That is emotional correctness.

To je emocionalna korektnost.

I'm not saying it's easy.

Ne kažem da je to lako.

An average of, like, 5.6 times per day

U prosjeku, pet, šest puta dnevno

I have to stop myself from responding to all of my hate mail

moram se zaustaviti da ne odgovorim

na sve te mailove pune prostota koji mi stižu.

with a flurry of vile profanities.

This whole finding compassion and common ground with your enemies thing

Cijeli pronalazak suosjećanja

i zajedničkog tla s neprijateljima

is kind of like a political-spiritual practice for me,

je političko-duhovna praksa za mene,

and I ain't the Dalai Lama.

i nisam Dalai Lama.

I'm not perfect, but what I am is optimistic.

Nisam savršena, ali sam otpimistična,

Because I don't just get hate mail.

jer ne dobivam samo mailove pune mržnje.

I get a lot of really nice letters, lots of them.

Dobivam puno lijepih pisama, puno njih.

I jedno od meni najdražih počinje,

And one of my all-time favorites begins:

"I am not a big fan of your political leanings

"Nisam veliki ljubitelj tvojih političkih sklonosti

or your sometimes tortured logic,

ili ponekad izmučene logike,

(Laughter)

ali sam veliki fan tebe kao osobe."

but I'm a big fan of you as a person."

Now this guy doesn't agree with me -- yet.

Taj tip se ne slaže samnom, još.

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

But he's listening --

Ali sluša, ne zbog toga što govorim,

not because of what I said, but because of how I said it.

već kako to govorim

i nekako, iako se nikad nismo upoznali,

And somehow, even though we've never met, we've managed to form a connection.

stvorili smo vezu.

To je emocionalna korektnost,

That's emotional correctness,

and that's how we start the conversations

i tako započinjemo razgovore

koji vode prema promjeni.

that really lead to change.

Thank you.

Hvala vam.

(Applause)

(Pljesak)