Political Correctness
Fighting the culture war
Part 2 of a multi-part series
The Origins of
Political Correctness:
If we look at it analytically, if we look at it historically, we quickly find out exactly what “PC” is. Political Correctness is cultural Marxism. It is Marxism translated from economic into cultural terms. If we compare the basic tenets of Political Correctness with classical Marxism the parallels are very obvious.
The nature of Political Correctness is perhaps revealed nowhere more clearly
than on college campuses, some 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.
When the classical Marxists, the communists, took over a country like
Political Correctness was formally developed at the Institute for Social
Research in
Why wasn't communism spreading?
The answer, they determined, was because Western Civilization was in its way. The problem with Western Civilization was its belief in the individual, that an individual could develop valid ideas. At the root of communism was the idea that all valid ideas came from the social group or leadership. The individual is irrelevant.
They believed that the only way for communism to advance was to assist Western Civilization in destroying itself. This could be accomplished, they thought, by undermining its foundations by chipping away at the rights of individuals.
And to aid its acceptance call it something that sounds positive: "Political Correctness". A similar tactic was employed with the naming of “Affirmative Action”, but that’s another article.
Inspired by the brand new communist technique, Mao, in the 1930s, wrote an article on the "correct" handling of contradictions among the people. "Sensitive training" – sound familiar? – With that, speech codes were born.
In 1935, after Hitler came to power, the
But Political Correctness remains just what it was intended to be: a sophisticated and dangerous form of censorship and oppression, imposed upon the citizenry with the ultimate goal of manipulating, brainwashing and destroying our society.
Why it can’t work:
(and
shouldn’t be attempted)
Political Correctness cannot work because it is based on flawed principles. Most importantly it destroys individual freedoms. It is akin to communism in that sense and like communism it is an affront to freedom loving people. This is why it can only be implemented covertly, one small step at a time, camouflaging its true reach and intent.
Political Correctness assumes that all ideas and cultures are compatible, except of course those that do not accept political correctness. As a movement it claims to seek equality but it can never achieve it because it relies on double standards to achieve equality, which is an obvious failure of logic. How accepting would the practitioners of “PC” be of a “Heterosexual Pride Parade” or of a scholarship fund specifically for “white” men?
Political Correctness has failed or is failing everywhere it is has been tried. Soviets, who embraced Political Correctness with the Communist Revolution found themselves in a lumbering, impoverished, humorless nation that has faded into history. Of course you can’t ask the citizens of Cuba how they feel about Political Correctness but if you could I doubt you would get the glowing reports of a “socialist paradise” that are indicated by the “extreme left” here in the U.S.
What it
takes to win The Culture War:
It
saddens me, and frankly, frightens me that Political Correctness seems to have
taken a strong hold in this Nation that I love. I know that I am less free
today that I was yesterday. So many people disagree with Political Correctness
and the forces driving it today but are afraid to act. So many more would feel
the same way if they simply understood the nature of this threat. What can be
done? I will defer the answer to Mr. Charlton Heston.
This is an excerpt from a speech he gave at
“The answer's been here all along. I learned it 36 years ago, on the steps
of the Lincoln Memorial in
You simply ... disobey. Peaceably, yes. Respectfully, of course. Nonviolently, absolutely. But when told how to think or what to say or how to behave, we don't. We disobey social protocol that stifles and stigmatizes personal freedom.
I learned the awesome power of disobedience from Dr. King ... who learned it from Gandhi, and Thoreau and Jesus and every other great man who led those in the right against those with the might.
Disobedience is in our DNA. We feel innate kinship with that Disobedient spirit that tossed tea into Boston Harbor, that sent Thoreau to jail, that refused to sit in the back of the bus, that protested a war in Vietnam.
In that same spirit, I am asking you to disavow cultural correctness with massive disobedience of rogue authority, social directives and onerous law that weaken personal freedom.”
Sources (not noted elsewhere):
- An untitled
paper by Agustin
Blazquez with the collaboration of Jaums Sutton
- The Origins of Political Correctness
An Accuracy in Academia Address by Bill Lind Delivered
- PSY 383E:
PSYCHOLOGY AND IDEOLOGY - THE STUDY OF POLITICAL CORRECTNESS
Heinz Klatt,
Department of Psychology, King's College, UWO
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