Monday, April 18, 2011
The Madness of Political Correctness
"Political Correctness" can be defined in these terms: A. the disinclination to communicate accurately about the reason or nature of something. In other words the speaker doesn't "tell it like it is." B. the deliberate distortion of truth and reality to advance a political agenda. This is a calculated tactic called "propaganda" in another time. C. the use of intimidation tactics to silence those who will not "fall in line." These can include giving the cold shoulder to the incorrect; calling them names such as bigot, racist, xenophobe; threats of violent protests over incorrect behavior; taking legal action such as suing for defamation or libel to silence criticism and attempts to disallow the incorrect their 1st Amendment right to free speech, i.e. hate speech laws. D. it can range from being annoying as it was in the U.S. ten or fifteen years ago to being a totalitarian state such as Nazi Germany, the U.S.S.R., China before capitalism, Southeast Asian despotically ruled nations or the fictional state in 1984. We must begin to recognize politically correct language and behavior and be brave enough to call it the brainwashing it is. Let's return to sanity, shall we?
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Hear, hear. China after capitalism doesn't have lots of internal free speech either. on a related note, I saw a story this morning that Donald Trump said in an interview, "I have always had a good relationship with 'the blacks'." (Single quotes mine) Can't wait to see how that goes over. Reminiscent of Ross Perot's "you people" phraseology.
ReplyDeleteCapitalism is China is really, "State Capitalism." It is not the same was we used to have in the US---before BO.
ReplyDeleteWhat we now have in the US is crony capitalism---sorta like the mob's business practices with the unions they own.