Political Correctness
Waging the culture war
Part 1 of a multi-part series
Introduction:
I would like to state upfront
that much of the work in this series is “borrowed” from others. It contains my original
thoughts but almost as often it contains my intended message that has been
previously conveyed well by others. I intended to write a single essay about
this topic but I quickly realized that there are many facets of political
correctness that deserve independent scrutiny. Also, there is a lot of ground
to cover and I’m not much of a typist. There are, fortunately, many informed
people already fighting against the evils of political correctness, but the
best source of inspiration and information is often found in the lunacy of its
practitioners. Let’s begin, shall we?
A “PC” Primer:
politically correct
adj. Abbr. PC
(1) Of, relating to, or supporting broad social, political, and educational
change, especially to redress historical injustices in matters such as race,
class, gender, and sexual orientation.
(2) Being or perceived as being over-concerned with such change, often to the
exclusion of other matters.
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political correctness n. Source: The
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright
© 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company
(The following are
NOT from the dictionary)*
Sensitivity - The politically correct term for political
correctness.
Insensitive - The condition of refusing, or failing, to be PC; e.g., the
piece I’m writing.
Classism - The first and most famous of
the many evil “isms.” It refers to the oppression of poor people by wealthy
people. Class oppression these days usually means being against Democratic tax
increases and the welfare state. If you are a “middle class” American trying to
better your life, you are probably an aspiring “classist”
yourself.
Diversity - Originally meant a healthy exposure to people with different
backgrounds. But to the PC crowd, it means quotas for minorities and women.
Multiculturalism - Two things: 1) quotas and 2) the projection of
left-wing politics onto unsuspecting
For example, Cubans in
Studying the political writings of the North Vietnamese Communists would be
an exercise in multiculturalism; studying the biographies of Vietnamese boat
people who escaped and founded a successful new life in
DWEMs - (Dead, White, European
Males)—White guys are the PC movement’s equivalent of Satan. The PC crowd
especially likes to go after fellows like Aristotle, Plato and Jefferson, who
supposedly have managed to somehow become indirectly responsible for supporting
all the racism, sexism, and oppression in the known world. Unfortunately, not
all “people of color” realize this. For instance, when thousands of Chinese
students died at
Why it’s Dangerous:
Practitioners of political
correctness seek to change our thoughts and speech by spreading and enforcing
the idea that vocalizing your beliefs is disrespectful to others and must be
avoided to make up for past inequities and injustices. Furthermore, they seek
to remove the language needed to express our free will. The fight to spread or
contain political correctness is largely a battle of words. If they succeed we
will no longer posses the “tools” necessary to form or spread our desire for
freedom.
To attempt to point out the odious nature of Political
Correctness is to restate the crucial importance of plain speaking, freedom of
choice and freedom of speech. These are the communities’ safe-guards against
the imposition of tyranny, indeed their
absence is tyranny. Which is why any such restrictions on expression such
as those invoked by the laws of libel, slander and public decency, are grave
matters to be decided by common law methodology; not by the dictates of the
mob.
Already our society has been infiltrated by many
wrong-headed ideas that serve to undermine our freedoms. The concept that all
ideas are acceptable and hold equal merit is already ingrained into the current
generation despite the fact that simple common sense should confirm otherwise.
The practice of “leveling the playing field” by lowering
standards or moving the best people, products or ideas “down” rather than
bringing the “bottom” up is absurd, yet look around, it is standard
practice.
A free People must have the ability to freely express
their thoughts. There are a minimal set of restrictions to this concept
outlined in our founding documents and they are sufficient. Everyday reports of
the “supposed” abuses of these rights, as well as those truly gross abuses that
are not recognized demonstrate clearly the lack of understanding for the
importance and true function of these rights already present in our society. If
this battle is not fully waged and won in the near term it will surely get
worse and could eventually reach a point where the ability and ambition to win
might not be attainable.
In his book, "The End of Sanity," Martin
Gross writes that "blatantly irrational behavior is rapidly being
established as the norm in almost every area of human endeavor. There seem to
be new customs, new rules, new anti-intellectual theories regularly foisted on
us from every direction. Underneath, the nation is roiling. Americans know
something, without a name is undermining the nation, turning the mind mushy
when it comes to separating truth from falsehood and right from wrong. And they
don't like it." Oh, but it does have a name, Martin… political
correctness.
*”definitions” were sourced from “comrade Z” at
contumacy.org and slightly modified.
Stay tuned
for future installments when I cover:
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The origins and history of “PC”
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Why “PC” can’t work
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What it takes to win the culture war
Contact
the author at McPundit@RochesterWatch.com or Mark@RochesterWatch.com
