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Study: Americans Really, Really Hate Political Correctness
The Revolutionary Act ^ | 10/11/18

Posted on 10/11/2018 10:10:57 AM PDT by Liberty7732

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Arnold Schwarzenegger Apologizes for Using the Phrase ‘Girlie Men’
21 posted on 10/11/2018 10:47:26 AM PDT by blam
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Awesome!


22 posted on 10/11/2018 10:48:04 AM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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Thank you for referencing that article Liberty7732. Please note that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.

With all due respect to mom & pop, please consider the following.

Since parents are not making sure that their children are being taught the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers as the Founding States had intended for those powers to be understood, while both Democrats and Republicans wrap themselves in the Constitution, neither political party actually respects the fed’s limited powers imo, Democrats being the worst at disrespecting those powers.

When the states finally wise up and repeal the 16th and ill-conceived 17th Amendments, the repeal amendment needs a provision that prohibits political party support for federal elected officials imo.


23 posted on 10/11/2018 10:52:02 AM PDT by Amendment10
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To: Liberty7732
I'm sure (thought I haven't looked) that the venerable AP would disagree.

24 posted on 10/11/2018 10:53:43 AM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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Political Correctness is Not American...


25 posted on 10/11/2018 11:09:50 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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As far as I’m concerned, alleged American citizens who profess adherence to this peculiarly understated phenomenon of evil called “political correctness” ought of nature to be immediately executed with a bullet to the back of the head.


26 posted on 10/11/2018 12:13:34 PM PDT by Sarcasm Factory
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Roger that. “Political correctness” is a phrase used by the CP-USA to enforce thought control.


27 posted on 10/11/2018 12:25:03 PM PDT by afsnco (18 of 20 in AF JAG)
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I'm sure (though I haven't looked) that the venerable AP would disagree.
I make no doubt. What has to happen in America is a lawsuit demanding that the NY Times v. Sullivan rule be overturned.

It makes it hard for public figures to sue for libel. But that the ruling is “fair” is predicated on the assumption that there is ideological competition in journalism. Critics of “the MSM” know that to be untrue, but have had a hard time articulating an irrefutable argument against it. The answer is IMHO bound and gagged and lying on our doorstep. The Associated Press (and its membership, taken together) constitute a monopoly in blatant violation of The Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890).

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. - Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations (1776)
The AP “wire” is a virtual meeting of all major US journalism - and it has been in continuous operation since before the Civil War.

The “conspiracy against the public” is the promotion of the fatuous conceit that journalism (AP journalism) is objective. Nobody can know that they are unbiased, whether or not they are in a mutual admiration society which assures them that they are. It takes effort even to attempt objectivity - and that effort must start from the assumption that you might likely be biased. Starting from the contrary assumption that you are unbiased simply proves that you are not even trying to be objective.

Worse, journalists are negative and they know it. They are all taught that , for commercial reasons, “If it bleeds, it leads.” Thus, the idea that journalism is objective amounts to the conceit that negativity is objectivity - amounts, IOW, to cynicism. Journalism is cynical about society, but naive towards government (after all, any criticism of society naturally raises the idea that “there oughta be a law”). That combination of cynicism and naiveté contrasts with the attitude of the conservative, who is skeptical enough of society to accept the (regretable) need for government - and skeptical of government because it is expensive and dangerous. It is for that reason that journalists are, to a conservative, indistinguishable from other socialists.

But to the point of the Stylebook, any politically tendentious rule in it (such as requiring that illegal aliens not be called “illegal aliens”) can be called an element of “conspiracy against the public” because after all, illegal aliens are illegal aliens.


28 posted on 10/11/2018 2:48:23 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (Journalism promotes itself - and promotes big government - by speaking ill of society.)
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Amen, brother!


29 posted on 10/11/2018 3:46:07 PM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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Study: Political Correctness is Collapsing!!!
https://youtu.be/4pIkL5qCXqw


30 posted on 10/15/2018 6:02:52 AM PDT by Fitzy_888 ("ownership society")
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