Posted on 12/29/2001 12:11:38 PM PST by Enough is ENOUGH
Exerpt: "The connection between the Frankfurt School and the student rebellion of the 1960s was made primarily by a key Frankfurt School member, Herbert Marcuse -- the man who in the '60s coined the phrase, "Make love, not war." Marcuse's books, "Eros" and "Civilization," argued that the tools with which to destroy Western culture were, in effect, sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. He popularized the Frankfurt School's ideas in ways the '60s radicals could understand and absorb, and we now know his work as political correctness."
This experience has stayed with me. I have never doubted for a moment that the leftist movement has infiltrated and taken over our college campuses.
BUMP!
Unfortunately, there is a lot of PC among conservatives.
True -- there is concerted coordinated linkage between academia and the media, but more importantly, we must recognize where it is indeed first hatched -- at grade school level, where the socialist-driven NEA has not only corrupted and lobomized the American youth from the get-go with their own customized, self-serving subversive agenda, but their powerful lobby simply will not allow politicians to UNconfiscate school taxes and support vouchers and school choice.
Therein lies the root of ALL unAmericanism, IMO -- the NEA's hijacking of education and implementation of a socialist indoctrination.
The farther right one gets, the more LEFT one really is.
I have to agree. This was such an interesting forum before 1999. I used to print out the threads because the discussions were so interesting. I have hopes that it will one day return to the excellence it once displayed.
"PC" has thoroughly permeated our society. Unfortunately, people follow trends such as PC and don't question their meaning or where they may lead.
That is SO true; which is furthur proof that the liberals promoting this garbage are operating at diminished mental capacity as they make their irrational demands in the name of free speech. Just as they always seek out a convenient excuse where they can hang their utter lack of accountablity, it is nice to have a pseudo-constitutional premise on which to base their unreasonable demands. Still, we foolishly misinterpret the concept of free speech ourselves, as if the right of free speech was a guarantee of a microphone and a television camera. I'm afraid that as long as we treat these morons as if they deserve to be taken seriously, this infection will continue to fester.
Perhaps we are merely arguing over who should get the most credit for destroying our civilization. Those who hate it, have long cooperated in trying to bring about our demise.
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I briefly scanned an article by a Commanche descendent who said the only way for Americans to fight PC is for us to regain our "warrior spirit" that we used to win this country.
However, that being said, I welcome all 3 of the above divergent strains of conservatism.
This forum, like many insitutions of "the right" seem to have been targetted for a take-over by the "neo-cons". It is only my own opinion of course, but the spiritual ancestor of the "neo-con" strain of conservatism, are the ex-Trotskyite intellectuals, primarily out of New York.
In their zeal to impose their own view of "conservatism", they remind me very much of the real deal Marxists, who, of course, banished and silenced, anyone who took a contrary opinion.
Occam's Razor at PCU by Diane Alden
Is the Dumbing Down of America working?
•42 percent of American adults cannot locate Japan on a world map, and 15 percent cannot even locate the United States.
•40 percent of American adults do not know that Germany was our enemy in World War II.
•84 percent of American college seniors do not know who was president at the start of the Korean War.
•58 percent of American high school seniors cannot understand a newspaper editorial in any newspaper.
•According to a U.S. Department of Education survey of 22,000 students in 1995, 50 percent were unaware of the Cold War and 60 percent did not know how the United States came into existence.
•63 percent of American adults believe that the earliest human beings lived at the same time as dinosaurs, 53 percent believe the earth revolves around the sun, and 91 percent can't state what a molecule is.
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The collegiate and intellectual left did not blink or break stride when Marxism in the form of communism and socialism failed miserably around the world. They just recreated Marxism in the new skins of political correctness and now it is called progressive, or in most cases, the Democratic Party.
Hillary Clinton, Cynthia McKinney and Sheila Jackson Lee, as well as Patrick Leahy, Teddy Kennedy, Tom Daschle and George Miller would be good examples. The progressive and unaccountable left now probably controls half the votes in the United States. They get their intellectual ammunition from the universities, which everyone, left or right, pays for.
The Betrayal of Liberty on America’s Campuses By Alan Charles Kors
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