Posted on 06/11/2008 7:42:03 PM PDT by OnRightOnLeftCoast
Political correctness began as a reasonable adjustment of manners, but as an ideology, it corrupts language and dulls thought.
(Excerpt) Read more at amconmag.com ...
Just like Liberalism in general.
Political Correctionism is nothing more than a means used by Communists, Marxists, and socialists to advance their agenda and incrementally remove your freedoms from you.
No it didn't. It began in Marxism to describe thoughts consistent with the goal of spreading communism, so that thoughts inconsistent with Communism (those that were against the goals of the party, or "politically incorrect") were considered illegitimate thought (not even to be discussed in private).
Political Correctness is nothing more than cultural Marxism.
Manners are manners.
Political correctness is political correctness.
Two different things.
PC is the scourge of our times.
Very good article. I usually don’t read things that long, but this was very, very good. He ends by pointing out that PC will crumble as it comes up against human nature. Surely this is true.
In other words, something may be correct, but not politically correct, hence, by definition, incorrect.
call me ignorant but what the heck does “BCE” and “CE” stand for?
“Before Common Era”
and
“Common Era”
You see...we can no longer have any reference to Christ (shhhh!)
He must become person non grata in school text books -else someone somewhere be traumatized or deeply offended by the mere sight of his name.
Therefore the term “common era” had been invented to replace the old BC and AD.
The funny thing is...it still revolves around the same time period - the estimated year of “His” (shhh) birthyear - but they’re hoping the young’uns won’t get too curious and figure that one out.
There was never anything reasonable about political correctness. It is fascist and totalitarian in nature and has always been so. It’s only purpose is to suppress words and ideas that are deemed unacceptable by a particular group or individual. The author gives credence to a virulent propaganda technique by conceding any amount of reasonableness to it.
I define them as "Before Christian Era" and "Christian Era" just to tick off the PC folks. :=)
That’s a good one!
I’ll have to borrow that.
Whoever thought of this “common era” BS has way too much time on their hands.
Not so many years ago, people were warning of the domino effect, or the slippery slope, with regard to scrapping laws against abortion; they were dismissed as crackpots when they said the state would soon legitimize abortion for gender, abortion without parental consent, abortion of full term babies, infanticide, and euthanasia.
And with regard to scrapping laws against sexual perversion; people scoffed at predictions that the day would come when homosexuals could adopt children and marry one another.
Hate speech legislation was never going to result in priests recanting or going to jail, and certainly journalists would never have anything to worry about.
Once, a long, long time ago, income tax wasn’t supposed to take anything you could really feel being torn out of your pockets.
Does anyone think there are enough people in this country today who will kick up a serious fuss if free speech is smothered by “hate crime law” or “rights commissions?” If gun ownership is slowly strangled until one day (very soon) it becomes everywhere illegal? If mandatory civil service for high school diploma becomes more “fair” and everyone is required to serve the state, whether or not they want a diploma or already have one they didn’t serve for? If energy companies are nationalized?
There is no going back from here. Not enough people know what they’re missing. Not enough people know what America originally was. And too many people are getting government handouts.
2A is not going to save 1A. The firearms will soon have no ammunition. And thanks to public education, free speech is already very deficient in ammunition.
2A won’t save it, conservatism hasn’t the numbers, capitalism is crawling on its belly, and there are more traitors than patriots in the media, the schools and the legislatures.
It’s just a matter of time now.
Have you guys visited the Religion Forum? There are discussions every single day to limit what some refer to as “hate” speech. That so-called hate speech is often just a retelling of recorded facts.
Offensive speech is the only speech that needs protection. Nobody tries to silence polite speech.
Interesting that a man with so much to say about language and its deployment, a contributor to NR no less, cannot recognize a rhetorical device when he reads it. Reagan did not literally mean it. Moreover, the sentence does even not say he himself "believed bigotry and prejudice were the worst things," it says his parents did.
Reagan's statement very effectively communicates the youth's perspective of his elders' moral code, and in the typical hyperbolic all-or-nothing "cant" of the adolescent.
Oh, that’s good...
That’s one of the biggest cultural abominations that we have today. Symbolically, of course. It just represents how far our nation has slid to cater to the left.
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