Posted on 11/09/2011 12:26:44 AM PST by gabriellah
There is an all-pervading problem going unnoticed by many in the United States. Although wasteful spending, big government policies, and corruption have exhausted and equally crippled our economy, this problem poses a greater threat to our livelihood. That problem is political correctness.
A recent Rasmussen Report poll revealed that 79 percent of Americans think political correctness is problematic in America.
What is political correctness, and who is responsible for it?
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“Political correctness” - - is that why all the newspaper stories about Penn State are careful not to use a phrase like, “homosexual pedophile rape”?
Me, me, me! I’ve been saying that political correctness, and everything closely associated with political correctness, is a serious problem, for many years, and it’s a worldwide problem-not, just, a U.S. problem. Conservatives, worldwide, need to work together on all of the issues that they have in common.
Liberals started PC. PC means one can’t tell the truth as it is. Darkness hates light. The godless liberals hate the truth.
political correctness is when you are seriously terrified of even mentioning your wifes height for fear that 15 years later you might lose your job over the statement because someone was offended.
15 years later you might lose your job over the statement because someone was offended.
It boils down to issues of “personal responsibility”. Your example is just one of millions, of the denial of personal responsibility. Being offended is a choice. A very poor choice I might add, but a choice non the less. Choices have consequences on the chooser, NOT on the one accused of doing something that caused a poor choice to be made by a chooser.
In the pc world, black is white, truth is relative, and the world is upside down. Shades of gray discolor reality to the degree there is no reality. The foundational principles upon which the Republic was founded, have been shown the door, and we descend into a no fault hell, in which there is plenty of fault to go around, just the wrong people are blamed, and those truly to blame remain innocent little lambs.
“Freedom is sacred, and the United States cannot not breed an environment that aids and abets political correctness.”
Usage of the terms “political correctness” and “PC” doesn’t do us any favors. They give the impression or suggest that their meanings are benign.
It’s time to call a spade a spade. Take control of the language and have control of the debate. That’s why “PC” and political “correctness” are nothing like what they’re names suggest.
Correct! The intent is to silence the opposition to leftist policies.
PC is ethics for atheists.
I call it cultural marxism...works for me.
Being offended is sort of a version of what used to be called a guilt trip it seems.
Amen!
I like it...CM.
I came up with “Viral Subversion”.
Yours is good...I’m pretty sure I picked up CM from someone here...so it’s “ours” now.
Cheers!
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