Political Correctness: The Scourge of Our Times

How Academia Whitewashes Muslim Honor Killings
The PC police find a new scapegoat.
February 24, 2016
Phyllis Chesler
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The whitewashing of Muslim honor killings in America has seeped into academia. And the PC police have found a new scapegoat: Hindu Americans.

In January, the Journal of Family Violence published “An Exploratory Study of Honor Crimes in the United States” by Brittany E. Hayes, Joshua D. Froelich and Steven M. Chermak. It was an act of cowardice as well as a shoddy piece of research. It broke absolutely no new ground, either theoretically or statistically, and is so “politically correct” that it completely misses an entire forest for a tree.

The study’s first error consists of comparing violence against women in general with femicide. Being battered is not the same as being murdered.

A classic honor killing is a family conspiracy mainly against a young daughter; fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles and cousins — sometimes even grandfathers — may join in. Westerners don’t often kill their teenage daughters.

The reason Hayes et al. place honor killings within the broader context of “violence against women” is clear. They don’t want to be accused of “Islamophobia” or of targeting any ethnic or religious group.

They don’t tell us the names of any of the 16 honor-killing perpetrators or the names of their victims. The phrase “Muslim perpetrator” and “Muslim honor killing” appear nowhere. In 10,000 words, only 14 are related to “Islam,” “Muslims,” “Arabs” or “Middle Easterners.”

Three times, Hayes et al. rail against “Western media coverage.” They write: “Significantly, media reporters in the United States may be more inclined to cover honor crimes, especially those committed by Middle Easterners, compared to other fatal crimes because they may be perceived as more ‘exotic’ and news worthy.” They insist, “Reporters may search for an honor crime angle when the victim and/or offender are of a particular ethnicity or religion . . . there is a need to study honor crimes in the United States that involve victims and perpetrators from other cultures, like India, or extremist ideologies.”

Wrong.

The New York Times, for example, has published a series of articles on Hindu honor killings in India and has published very few articles about Muslim honor killings in the United States, in North America or in Europe.

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How Academia Whitewashes Muslim Honor Killings
 
How American Soldiers Used Pig’s Blood and Corpses to Fight Muslim Terrorism
Before political correctness, our soldiers were free to fight back.
February 26, 2016
Daniel Greenfield
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A century before American soldiers fought Muslim terrorism in the Middle East, they fought it in the Philippines. Their attackers were Moro Muslims whose savage fanaticism appeared inexplicable. A formerly friendly Muslim might suddenly attack American soldiers, local Muslim rulers promised friendship while secretly aiding the terrorists and the yellow left-wing press at home seized on every report of an atrocity to denounce American soldiers as murderers whose honor was forever soiled.

Much of what went on in that conflict, including the sacrifices of our soldiers, has been forgotten. The erasure has been so thorough that the media casually claims that the American forces did not use pig corpses and pig’s blood to deter Muslim terrorists. Media fact checks have deemed it a “legend”.

It’s not a legend. It’s history.

The practice began in the Spanish period. A source as mainstream as the New Cambridge History of Islam informs us that, "To discourage Juramentados, the Spaniards buried their corpses with dead pigs."

Juramentados was the Spanish term for the Muslim Jihadists who carried out suicide attacks against Christians while shouting about Allah. American forces, who had little experience with Muslim terrorists, adopted the term and the Spanish tactics of burying Muslim terrorists alongside dead pigs.

It was a less sensitive age and even the New York Times blithely observed that, “The Moros, though they still admire these frenzied exits from the world, have practically ceased to utilize them, since when a pig and a man occupy a single grave the future of the one and the other are in their opinions about equal."

The New York Times conceded that the story "shocked a large number of sensitive people," but concluded that, "while regretting the necessity of adopting a plan so repugnant to humane ideas, we also note that the Moros can stop its application as soon as they choose, and therefore we feel no impulse either to condemn its invention or to advise its abandonment. The scheme involves the waste of a certain amount of pork, but pork in hot climates is an unwholesome diet, anyhow, and the less of it our soldiers and other ‘infidels’ in the Philippines have to eat the better for them."

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How American Soldiers Used Pig’s Blood and Corpses to Fight Muslim Terrorism
 
Political Correctness Kills
The hazardous effects of our silence on ourselves.
March 4, 2016
William Kilpatrick
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I got an instant chill when I looked at him. I got this grip in my stomach and then, of course, I gave myself a political correct slap…I thought, “My God, Michael, these are just a couple of Arab businessmen.”

That was ticket agent Michael Tuohey’s recollection of his encounter with Mohammed Atta at the check-in desk of U.S. Airways in Portland on the morning of September 11, 2001. For Tuohey, the fear of being politically incorrect was greater than his instinctive fear. Better to take the remote risk of a terrorist act than the more immediate risk of being thought a bigot.

It might be expected that 9/11 would have put an end to political correctness—at least in regard to Islam. But that was not the case. Instead, the forces of political correctness grew stronger and threw a protective ring around Islam, making it practically immune to criticism. You could, of course, criticize terrorist groups, suicide bombers and lone-wolf jihadists—as long as you added the caveat that their actions had nothing to do with Islam. But suggest that terrorists were inspired by Islam itself and you were sure to find yourself in hot water and maybe in a courtroom.

9/11 wasn’t the last time that a little less political correctness might have saved the day. Take the 2009 massacre at Fort Hood. Major Nidal Hasan’s jihadist sympathies were well known to fellow officers for years before he launched his murderous attack. Yet they failed to report him for fear of being branded as bigots. Even after the massacre, the Army, the media, and the administration worked vigorously to cover up Hasan’s devotion to Islam. His attack, we were told, was simply a case of workplace violence.

Meanwhile, over in England, another cover-up of Muslim misbehavior was already a decade old and wouldn’t be exposed for another five years. In the course of a fifteen-year period, more than 1,400 girls in the city of Rotherham were groomed, raped, and traded by Pakistani gangs. Police, city authorities, and child protection agencies knew about the rapes but said nothing out of fear that they would be subject to accusations of “racism” and “Islamophobia’ were they to implicate Pakistanis.

PC cover-ups have become the norm in Europe. A 2014 cover-up of sexual assaults by Afghan youth at a Stockholm youth festival wasn’t revealed until two years later. Police explained that they withheld the information for fear of inflaming anger at refugees and also because the information would “play into the hands of the Sweden Democrats” (an anti-immigration party). According to one report, Swedish police concealed over 5,000 incidents involving refugees during 2015.

The media have also been reluctant to report on the extent of immigrant crime. The mass sexual assaults outside the Cologne train station on New Year’s Eve were ignored by the media for several days after the crimes were committed. It was only after an avalanche of social media protests that the press belatedly and reluctantly covered the story.

The media blackout on politically incorrect news has made it extremely difficult for Europeans to understand the mess that they are in. Brits who relied on the mainstream media for information knew little, if anything, about the rape epidemic that swept over many parts of Britain. And Swedes who depended for their news on Sweden’s Orwellian press remained blissfully ignorant of the fact that immigration had turned their socialist utopia into the rape capital of the Northern Hemisphere.

Were it not for social media, Europeans would have little grasp of the extent of Muslim immigration and the resultant high crime rate. Which is why the European thought police are now cracking down on the incorrect use of the Internet. In Scotland, a man was recently arrested for negative Facebook comments about the arrival of refugees on his small island. He was concerned that the Isle of Bute, with a population of about 6,500, was expected to take in 1,000 Syrian migrants. Given the math, the man’s concerns seem justified. The situation calls to mind a 1950s film titled Tight Little Island which, coincidentally, also concerns a tiny island off the coast of Scotland. The problem facing the fictional island community is somewhat different from that facing the folks in Bute: they’ve run out of whisky. But, come to think of it, whisky might soon be in short supply if the refugees manage to impose their abstemious ways on the locals. In any event, the constabulary was not amused by the Facebook post. The district police inspector warned, “I hope that the arrest of this individual sends a clear message that Police Scotland will not tolerate any form of activity which would incite hatred and provoke offensive comments on social media.”

Over in Denmark, the officials were sending equally clear messages. A district court fined a man for making comments on his Facebook page that were “insulting and demeaning towards adherents of Islam.” What the man wrote is as follows:

The ideology of Islam is as loathsome, disgusting, oppressive, and misanthropic as Nazism. The massive immigration of Islamists into Denmark is the most devastating thing to happen to Danish society in recent history.

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Political Correctness Kills
 
Fighting Political Correctness in the Age of Trump
Republicans must stand up to political correctness or lose.
May 3, 2016
Daniel Greenfield

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When it was announced that Harriet Tubman would displace President Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill, there were two sets of dramatically different reactions among Republicans on social media.

One group passed around links to a National Review piece celebrating the decision to “tell the story of a deeply-religious, gun-toting Republican who fought for freedom in defiance of the laws of a government that refused to recognize her rights.”

“If it was political correctness that drove this decision, who cares?” it asked.

Much of the Republican base, the other group, cared. Donald Trump noticed and denounced the move as “pure political correctness”.

Political correctness is the defining element of the culture war today. It’s also one of the driving forces of Trump’s candidacy. Republicans and conservatives who ignore the backlash to it do so at their own peril.

When the left exploited the Charleston church shooting to begin a purge of Confederate flags that extended all the way into reruns of the Dukes of Hazzard, Republicans failed to defy the lynch mobs and even cheered the takedowns, some of which took place under Republican governors, as progress. Congresswoman Candice Miller, a Republican, announced recently that state flags in the Capitol featuring confederate insignia will be taken down due to the “controversy surrounding Confederate imagery”. The “controversy” is another term for the left’s manufactured political correctness.

There are legitimate positions on both sides when it comes to the Confederate flag, but the historical debate is not the issue. Just as it doesn’t matter very much that Harriet Tubman was a Republican. It matters far more that both moves were driven by the social media mobs of political correctness.

Culture wars are not about actual historical facts, but a tribal conflict over culture between clashing groups. This is a conflict in which it mattered a great deal that northeastern elites were lining up to get $400 tickets to see Hamilton, a hip-hop musical praised by many of the same Republicans who wouldn’t be caught dead watching reruns of the Dukes of Hazzard. That New York theater trend led to Southerner Andrew Jackson being displaced on the currency instead of New York’s own Alexander Hamilton.

Some conservatives would argue that Andrew Jackson founded the Democratic Party while Hamilton, a longtime foe of its political forebears, would likely have aligned with the modern Republican Party. And like Tubman on the $20 bill, they would be completely missing the forest for the factoid.

Imagine that you live in a world in which the theater tastes of New York elites combined with a media pressure campaign by two obnoxious New Yorkers determines who shows up on American currency? It isn’t nearly as grating if you are a Republican living in New York or Washington D.C. and share much of the culture of the liberal upper class, even if you generally dissent from its economic and social policies.

But it’s a lot more irritating if you live in Alabama or Mississippi and your culture is not only an object of mockery and contempt, but you also have it rubbed in your face that the momentary whims of an entitled elite operating out of a handful of overrated cities matter more than your entire history.

Political correctness isn’t just about politics. It’s about power. It’s about who has it and who doesn’t.

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Fighting political correctness is a fundamental part of fighting for a free and fair society. If we forget that, we’ll lose any hope of achieving that society.

Fighting Political Correctness in the Age of Trump
 

Michael Bloomberg decries political correctness, calls on students 'to deal with difficult situations'
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By Douglas Perry
May 03, 2016

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has said enough already with the political correctness on college campuses, joining a growing chorus of Americans pushing back against the "PC Police" -- that is, activists who monitor speech and actions for signs they might cause offense.

Bloomberg, speaking to graduates at the University of Michigan over the weekend, decried the codification by many university administrations of so-called "microagression" offenses, as well as the whole idea of the college campus as a "safe space."

"The fact that some university boards and administrations now bow to pressure and shield students from these ideas through 'safe spaces,' 'code words' and 'trigger warnings' is, in my view, a terrible mistake," Bloomberg said. He added that that the "whole purpose of college is to learn how to deal with difficult situations -- not to run away from them."

Bloomberg, who considered but ultimately decided against running for president this year as an independent, was a socially liberal Republican during his three terms as New York's mayor. He said college students should seek to get out of protective bubbles created by their parents and schools and not be afraid of occasional hurt feelings.

"A microaggression is exactly that: micro," he said. "And one of the most dangerous places on a college campus is a safe space, because it creates the false impression that we can isolate ourselves from those who hold different views." His remarks on political correctness elicited both applause and boos from his audience, wrote Politico.

He told students that being able to think critically and resolve conflicts through reason "are the most important skills in the working world, and it's why colleges have always exposed students to challenging and uncomfortable ideas."

• Read the text of Bloomberg's speech.

Political correctness has been around since the 1980s but it has become more militant in recent years, with some proponents seeking to prevent any speech or action that might make someone uncomfortable.

"For example, by some campus guidelines, it is a microaggression to ask an Asian American or Latino American, 'Where were you born?,' because this implies that he or she is not a real American," Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt wrote last year in The Atlantic.

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Michael Bloomberg decries political correctness, calls on students 'to deal with difficult situations'

With Trump as POTUS libtarts might get PC shoved up their ass...
 
For justice!



Commie manifesto is alive and well, even after 100 million dead. This is how far left drones are born.
 
Hooray! Tim Allen Lambastes PC Culture on Prime-Time TV
“Microaggressions — you mean like midget warriors?”
12.7.2016
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Trey Sanchez
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The ridiculous politically correct culture got a punch in the nose on the latest episode of Last Man Standing on ABC thanks to comedian Tim Allen who plays conservative dad Mike Baxter. There’s not much method acting going on here as Allen holds similar personal political beliefs.

But in the episode correctly titled “Precious Snowflakes,” Allen’s character Mike is confronted by his daughter, Mandy, who asked him to give a speech at her college graduation but reminded him that it needed to be “PC and micro-aggression free,” as the episode’s description states. Well, as you can imagine, that doesn’t go over very well.

Mandy told her father she needed to review his speech to find any “microaggressions.”

“Microaggressions — you mean like midget warriors?” Mike joked.

After she tells him they are phrases people find objectionable, like midget warriors, Mike declares:

“I know what microaggressions are! It’s the latest liberal attack at free speech… and a lot of fun if you do ‘em right!”

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Mike told his daughter that if he goes along with the list, he’ll be going against everything he believes in. She said it wouldn’t hurt him if he could compromise for just 15 minutes. “Thank you, dad,” she cried leaving the room.

“No, no, no! You can’t call me dad,” Mike said pointing to the list. “What if I identify as mom?”

Watch below:

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Hooray! Tim Allen Lambastes PC Culture on Prime-Time TV
 
NEW YORK TIMES: "ETHNIC" IS PROBLEMATIC BECAUSE IT "NORMALIZES" WHITENESS
March 28, 2017

Daniel Greenfield
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Political correctness is problematic because it normalizes racism aimed at white people and censorship. And this list normalizes the way style guides have moved from being about writing to being about identity politics.

A group of New York Times journalists released a list of racial terms they find “bothersome” Sunday.

NYT’s Race/Related team included terms like”ethnic,” person of color” and “illegal immigrant” among those they found slightly offensive.

John Eligon, the paper’s national correspondent, found “ethnic”a troublesome term because it “normalizes” whiteness.

“What makes a black person ethnic but a white person not? On the one hand, this is the normalization of whiteness – if you are not white, then you are something else,” Eligon explained.

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New York Times: "Ethnic" is Problematic Because it "Normalizes" Whiteness
 
THE LEFT, POLITICAL CORRECTNESS AND CULT BEHAVIOR
For leftists, the quest for power is about more than politics.
April 10, 2017

Carl Lasner
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Michael Savage famously said that liberalism is a mental disorder. I think it is more precise to say that liberalism is a cult. Isolation, threats and routine shaming all serve to silence cult members who cross them, exactly as happens with political correctness. The dreaded label of racist or bigot chills most opposition. Those closest to you will ostracize you for expressing an incorrect view, exactly as in a cult. Eventually, the inclination is to censor what you not only say but what you think. Most people upon being intimidated will rein in their perceptions and even their curiosity because the pain of social isolation is so terrifying. And as in a cult, there is a reflexive herd effect in which an almost unanimous consensus sees the offender as crazy or beyond the pale. It is far easier to create a new world in a void created by the silence of political correctness.

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The third demographic group consists of high achievers, often with impressive, elite educations. These people, whether liberals or classic cultists, thrive on adulation. In their fantasy world of top-down control these liberals never envision themselves as the ones being controlled. They are generally consumed by their own moral superiority to the point of single mindedness. These are the ones most likely to resort to name calling and intolerance, often after pointing out how judgmental anyone is who disagrees with them. They view themselves as heroes fighting the good fight against the forces of darkness. Noble warriors that they are, they permit themselves to viciously attack others and especially to lie about others for their righteous cause. The willingness of people to advance falsehoods has increased exponentially since my childhood. I have noticed that if a liberal’s agenda is advanced, their stature increases within their group even if they are not truthful. I remember when people would be reluctant to state a lie because their reputation would be ruined. In that sense political correctness is also a war against accountability.

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Political correctness is a tool for liberals to arrest debate, questioning and criticism. Political correctness is seductive since it grants the most power to those perceived as the weakest victims. It reinforces the primacy of self pity since the “wronged” person gets to shut down disagreement. Ultimately, political correctness grants people the right to no longer engage or to follow rules. Cults often attempt through brainwashing to revamp human nature. Liberal intellectuals attempt exactly that with political correctness.

The Left, Political Correctness and Cult Behavior
 

Michael Bloomberg decries political correctness, calls on students 'to deal with difficult situations'
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By Douglas Perry
May 03, 2016

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has said enough already with the political correctness on college campuses, joining a growing chorus of Americans pushing back against the "PC Police" -- that is, activists who monitor speech and actions for signs they might cause offense.

Bloomberg, speaking to graduates at the University of Michigan over the weekend, decried the codification by many university administrations of so-called "microagression" offenses, as well as the whole idea of the college campus as a "safe space."

"The fact that some university boards and administrations now bow to pressure and shield students from these ideas through 'safe spaces,' 'code words' and 'trigger warnings' is, in my view, a terrible mistake," Bloomberg said. He added that that the "whole purpose of college is to learn how to deal with difficult situations -- not to run away from them."

Bloomberg, who considered but ultimately decided against running for president this year as an independent, was a socially liberal Republican during his three terms as New York's mayor. He said college students should seek to get out of protective bubbles created by their parents and schools and not be afraid of occasional hurt feelings.

"A microaggression is exactly that: micro," he said. "And one of the most dangerous places on a college campus is a safe space, because it creates the false impression that we can isolate ourselves from those who hold different views." His remarks on political correctness elicited both applause and boos from his audience, wrote Politico.

He told students that being able to think critically and resolve conflicts through reason "are the most important skills in the working world, and it's why colleges have always exposed students to challenging and uncomfortable ideas."

• Read the text of Bloomberg's speech.

Political correctness has been around since the 1980s but it has become more militant in recent years, with some proponents seeking to prevent any speech or action that might make someone uncomfortable.

"For example, by some campus guidelines, it is a microaggression to ask an Asian American or Latino American, 'Where were you born?,' because this implies that he or she is not a real American," Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt wrote last year in The Atlantic.

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Michael Bloomberg decries political correctness, calls on students 'to deal with difficult situations'

With Trump as POTUS libtarts might get PC shoved up their ass...


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If progressives are so keen on political correctness and the use of micro-aggressions they should not use micro-aggressions themselves. Otherwise turn about is fair play when dealing with them.

*****CHUCKLE*****



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If progressives are so keen on political correctness and the use of micro-aggressions they should not use micro-aggressions themselves. Otherwise turn about is fair play when dealing with them.
You have to remember, though: PC is a one-way street only. Always has been, always will be.

The "Progressives" (ha) can be as nasty and hateful and intolerant and bigoted as they want. That's "different".
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PC PENTAGON CAVES TO CAIR, AGREES TO 'REVIEW' ANTI-TERROR TRAINING PROGRAM
Assigns case to Muslim chaplain who graduated from radical Islamic school raided after 9/11.
April 26, 2017

Paul Sperry
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The Pentagon has agreed to formally review an anti-terror training program taught to special forces by a private contractor for material deemed offensive to Islam and Muslims, even though the Muslim group that lodged a complaint against the allegedly “Islamophobic” program has been accused by the Justice Department of supporting terrorism and is currently banned from outreach activities by the FBI.

The instructor hired to teach the program says he fears his class might not get a fair hearing, because military brass have assigned the review to a Muslim military chaplain who graduated from a radical Saudi-funded Islamic school raided by federal agents after 9/11 on suspicion of terrorist activities. He is their second choice for conducting the review. They had originally picked a more radical military chaplain to inspect the training materials before learning he has ties to an imam with a history of ministering to Muslims later convicted of terrorism.

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CAIR and its founder as “members of the US Muslim Brotherhood,” while designating them both as “unindicted co-conspirators” in a 2008 terror-financing case involving Hamas, the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood and a US-designated terrorist group.

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Indeed, his case is the latest example of how baseless charges of “Islamophobia” and “anti-Muslim bigotry” are used to hamstring legitimate counterterrorism efforts, which will only pave the way for more islamic terror attacks in the future.

PC Pentagon Caves To CAIR, Agrees to 'Review' Anti-Terror Training Program
 
EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE: THE POSTER SCHOOL FOR ACADEMIC ROT
When revolutions devour their own.
May 31, 2017

Jack Kerwick
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That inchoate but pervasive ideology known as “Political Correctness,” a dogma that is enshrined in and enforced nowhere to the extent that it is in academia, truly is toxic. It is a poison that all decent people concerned with the future of Western civilization should resist with every fiber of their being.

If the latest happenings at Evergreen State College aren’t enough to convince any and every person who isn’t a leftist fanatic of this, then nothing else can.

Even before UC Berkeley, Evergreen should be extolled as the poster school for academic corruption, a picture worth the proverbial thousand words as to all that’s gone wrong with Higher Education. In the latest events at Evergreen we have on display the radical subversion of academia’s historical mission as the premiere civilizing cultural institution, for at Evergreen, it is now savagery that rules.

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“The left eats its own.” This is so true, but only so far as it goes.

The full truth is that the left, via its creed of Political Correctness, eats everything that is decent.

Evergreen State College: The Poster School for Academic Rot
 
PRESIDENT TRUMP: "STOP BEING POLITICALLY CORRECT"
June 4, 2017

Daniel Greenfield
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President Trump responded to the latest Islamic terror attack in the United Kingdom by proposing common sense migration reform. He urged an end to political correctness but as London and Manchester and Paris and Cologne and so many other Islamic atrocities show us, our elites would rather be politically correct than live.

Certainly they are always willing to choose political correctness over our own lives. That is the dark road that brings us to London Bridge and brings us to the Manchester Arena and brings us to every single act of Islamic terrorism including September 11.

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Real leadership doesn't mean lying to people until they die and perish of your lies. When President Trump calls for an end to political correctness and a serious conversation about the threat that we face, that is real leadership.

The hard truth is that we can either be politically correct or we can survive. We can't do both.

President Trump: "Stop Being Politically Correct"
 
Political correctness is just being respectful to other people.
Well, of course, that's not true.

Tell you what: You're the curious type. Here's a nice long list of honest liberals to explain it:
 
Political correctness is just being respectful to other people.
Well, of course, that's not true.

Tell you what: You're the curious type. Here's a nice long list of honest liberals to explain it:

Bullshit.

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Political correctness is just being respectful to other people.
Well, of course, that's not true.

Tell you what: You're the curious type. Here's a nice long list of honest liberals to explain it:

Bullshit.
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It's funny how this political correctness thing seems to work. Political correctness is terrible until someone is saying" politically incorrect" things about whites
 

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