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To: Enough is ENOUGH
"I didn't realize how indoctrinated this country already was to political correctness as evidenced on this thread. I feel safer when people speak out. When people stop speaking, well, you can judge for yourself. It's like when the woods suddenly becomes quiet."

The Origins of Political Correctness
"We call it "Political Correctness." The name originated as something of a joke, literally in a comic strip, and we tend still to think of it as only half-serious. In fact, it’s deadly serious. It is the great disease of our century, the disease that has left tens of millions of people dead in Europe, in Russia, in China, indeed around the world. It is the disease of ideology. PC is not funny. PC is deadly serious.

If we look at it analytically, if we look at it historically, we quickly find out exactly what it is. Political Correctness is cultural Marxism. It is Marxism translated from economic into cultural terms. It is an effort that goes back not to the 1960s and the hippies and the peace movement, but back to World War I. If we compare the basic tenets of Political Correctness with classical Marxism the parallels are very obvious.

First of all, both are totalitarian ideologies. The totalitarian nature of Political Correctness is revealed nowhere more clearly than on college campuses, many of which at this point are small ivy covered North Koreas, where the student or faculty member who dares to cross any of the lines set up by the gender feminist or the homosexual-rights activists, or the local black or Hispanic group, or any of the other sainted "victims" groups that PC revolves around, quickly find themselves in judicial trouble. Within the small legal system of the college, they face formal charges – some star-chamber proceeding – and punishment. That is a little look into the future that Political Correctness intends for the nation as a whole."

333 posted on 08/05/2002 12:49:04 AM PDT by Uncle Bill
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To: Uncle Bill
Bill Lind is a very good source for info on PC.

Excerpt from Chuck Morse's article:
"Members and front organizations must continually embarrass, discredit and degrade our critics. When obstructionists become too irritating, label them as fascist, or Nazi or anti-Semitic…The association will, after enough repetition, become ‘fact’ in the public mind." Cultural Marxism

Doesn't this tactic sound familiar? Like what I was referring to. Seems like it is pretty well entrenched in our society.

367 posted on 08/05/2002 1:11:35 AM PDT by Enough is ENOUGH
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To: Uncle Bill
So you've laid out the problems as you see them and the PC dangers. What is the answer to the problems?
385 posted on 08/05/2002 1:23:59 AM PDT by TLBSHOW
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To: Uncle Bill
Now that's an article that is actually useful. Thanks!
582 posted on 08/05/2002 2:56:04 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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