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Let's Ditch the Political Correctness
Townhall ^ | 06/16/2015 | Susan Stamper Brown

Posted on 06/16/2015 1:19:59 PM PDT by aimhigh

Political correctness is a contradiction of reality and distortion of morality that necessitates relentless government intervention devised by those who seek to control our lives. These self-appointed "Speech Sheriffs" warn us that words spoken outside the imaginary perimeters they've set are judgmental, negative, racist or intolerant.

The goal of these elitists is to subtly subvert society by controlling speech. When speech is controlled, it's easy to control behavior. PC has infiltrated and corrupted just about every facet of our lives, including businesses, the news media, sports, churches, the military and universities.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: correct; politically
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There's an aspect that is missing from this discussion. The goal of the left is to silence conservatives with PC rules. Once silenced, the left then lifts the PC rules to allow them to go full hate on conservatives. In other words, 'disarm your enemy before you attack'.
1 posted on 06/16/2015 1:20:00 PM PDT by aimhigh
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How? Even people on the Right use it! It’ll take a generation or two to get rid of it. With decent educators. Nix that! It’ll take 50 or more years with lots of dead victims.


2 posted on 06/16/2015 1:23:34 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: "I should like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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To: aimhigh

“Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.” - George Orwell, 1984


3 posted on 06/16/2015 1:25:00 PM PDT by Captain Compassion
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To: aimhigh

This is the money quote from this article:

“Discrimination is not the dirty word liberals make it. In the real, non-politically correct world, it is a cognitive process whereby two or more stimuli are distinguished (says the dictionary), so it’s time we employ a little discrimination to determine what’s truly worthy of worry. And maybe loosen up a little.”


4 posted on 06/16/2015 1:25:54 PM PDT by ReformationFan
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PC has infiltrated and corrupted just about every facet of our lives, including businesses, the news media, sports, churches, the military and universities.

There are simply too many fags promoting political correctness.

And that's the truth.

5 posted on 06/16/2015 1:31:31 PM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi
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To: aimhigh
The goal of the left is to silence conservatives with PC rules.

IMHO, the standard reply should be

"F*** your PC dogma."

Because that's exactly what it is.

6 posted on 06/16/2015 1:37:50 PM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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While there are scoundrels & demagogues, who consciously exploit the idiocy of what we call "politically correct," you will never adequately confront the problem, until you recognize that it depends upon a personality type, who were described by Lenin, as "useful idiots." These are often mis-described as "liberals"; but, in fact, they are largely compulsion driven neurotics, who simply cannot handle the realities of nature--including the fact that their is no such thing as actual equality in the biological world.

The attack on reality, takes the form of trying to pretend--to force everyone to pretend--that we are all in fact equal; that not only are we all in fact equal--as silly as that is--but that all "life-styles" are in fact equal or, at least, of equivalent worth.

Our situation is hopeless unless more Conservative spokesmen are willing to cut the Gordian Knot by confronting the absurd Jacobin, Marxist and faux "Liberal," false premises, directly.

7 posted on 06/16/2015 1:47:52 PM PDT by Ohioan
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For more on the compulsion that drives so many of those who pursue the Leftist fantasies: Compassion or Compulsion.
8 posted on 06/16/2015 1:51:38 PM PDT by Ohioan
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PC is simply lying to excuse bad behavior in my book.


9 posted on 06/16/2015 2:14:49 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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PC is simply lying to excuse bad behavior in my book.

I see it as an attempt to impose a political dogma. The purpose of dogma is not to engage a debate, but to prevent it.

10 posted on 06/16/2015 2:25:40 PM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: miss marmelstein
You "dump" it by not using it, and refusing to be bullied into using it.

"African-Americans" are blacks. "Gays" are queers, fags, homos, or some other more accurate name. "Refugees" are illegal immigrants. "Sex workers" are prostitutes, hookers, whores ... "Alternate lifestyles" are perversions. "Green energy" is a catch-all for a host of ridiculous Rube Goldberg devices that have never delivered on their promise. "Sustainable" , "organic", and "locally produced" are synonyms for overpriced vegetables you can grow in your own garden for free.

Oh, and "taxes" are another name for theft.

11 posted on 06/16/2015 2:28:44 PM PDT by IronJack
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> I see it as an attempt to impose a political dogma. The purpose of dogma is not to engage a debate, but to prevent it.

That too. It is a tool to control. Its a verb and a noun in that sense kind of...


12 posted on 06/16/2015 2:40:43 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: aimhigh; fieldmarshaldj; AuH2ORepublican; Impy; GOPsterinMA; randita; Sun; NFHale; ...

I’ve been doing some genealogy lately because I need to find a Politically Correct victim group to belong to.


13 posted on 06/16/2015 2:46:04 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (The War on Drugs is Big Government statism)
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I’ve been doing some genealogy lately because I need to find a Politically Correct victim group to belong to.

How about the Pangaeans?

14 posted on 06/16/2015 2:55:21 PM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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Never heard of them or know what they are. Will becoming one make me eligible for affirmative action hiring?


15 posted on 06/16/2015 2:56:37 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (The War on Drugs is Big Government statism)
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To: aimhigh

Political correctness is philosophical suicide.


16 posted on 06/16/2015 2:57:39 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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Never heard of them or know what they are. Will becoming one make me eligible for affirmative action hiring?

Maybe. At least until somebody does figure out who they are.

17 posted on 06/16/2015 3:01:43 PM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: aimhigh

I’ve been saying for twenty five years that political correctness would kill this country.


18 posted on 06/16/2015 3:05:06 PM PDT by Duckdog (If it wasn't for NASCAR my TV would have gone out the window years ago!)
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To: IronJack

At Last; a communication from a genetically superior member of the human species, I feared for so long that my wife and I were alone.
Plain language people.
SEX WORKER = WHORE
GAY = HOMO OR FAGGOT
LIFE STYLE CHOICE = PERVERT
AFRICAN-AMERICAN = BLACK GUY OR GIRL
UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANT = ILLEGAL ALIEN
LESBIAN = BULL DYKE OR BITCH DYKE
BI-SEXUAL = FREAK OF NATURE THAT SWINGS BOTH WAYS
CAUCASIAN = WHITE GUY OR GIRL
The English language is the most expressive in the world, we don’t need to create terms out of whole cloth to express ourselves.


19 posted on 06/16/2015 3:41:13 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: tacticalogic

Pangaea was the original, single massive continent on planet Earth.
I you decide to become a Trans Pangaean I am sure there should be some entitlements there.
After all that would make you a universal citizen.


20 posted on 06/16/2015 3:45:52 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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