1.The great first Republican President famously said You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
A careful analysis of the times seems to indicate that that quote can be enlarged to society, as well: you can intimidate the people into silence for a time….but then truth bubbles out.
So it is with the hallmark of Liberalism…. ‘political correctness.’
2.What is ‘political correctness’?
Why….it is the very antithesis of free speech, hence, a preferred weapon of the Left.
And, in order to subscribe to it, sorry to say, one must be a coward, at least to the degree that one lives in fear of offending someone else in preference to expressing truth.
The Atlantic magazine puts it this way:
“…by “political correctness.” In the extended interviews and focus groups, participants made clear that they were concerned about their day-to-day ability to express themselves: They worry that a lack of familiarity with a topic, or an unthinking word choice, could lead to serious social sanctions for them. But since the survey question did not define political correctness for respondents, we cannot be sure what, exactly, the 80 percent of Americans who regard it as a problem have in mind.” Large Majorities Dislike Political Correctness - The Atlantic
3. My definition of political correctness is along the lines of these two:
Theodore Dalrymple:
Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better.
When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity.
To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed.
Karl Marx himself has stated that “The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism,” a sentiment that corresponds almost exactly to the Islamic idea that “peace” means the absence of opposition to Islamic rule. Cultural Marxism — aka Political Correctness — and Islam share the same totalitarian outlook and instinctively agree in their opposition to free discussion, and in the idea that freedom of speech must be curtailed when it is “offensive” to certain groups.
Gates of Vienna: Political Correctness — The Revenge of Marxism
Obama Supreme Court Justice Kagan has said just that: In a 1996 paper, "Private Speech, Public Purpose: The Role of Governmental Motive in First Amendment Doctrine," Kagan argued it may be proper to suppress speech because it is offensive to society or to the government
Recently, YASCHA MOUNK, a lecturer on government at Harvard, did a study of how permanent the Liberal Left’s imposition of political correctness is working out.
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A careful analysis of the times seems to indicate that that quote can be enlarged to society, as well: you can intimidate the people into silence for a time….but then truth bubbles out.
So it is with the hallmark of Liberalism…. ‘political correctness.’
2.What is ‘political correctness’?
Why….it is the very antithesis of free speech, hence, a preferred weapon of the Left.
And, in order to subscribe to it, sorry to say, one must be a coward, at least to the degree that one lives in fear of offending someone else in preference to expressing truth.
The Atlantic magazine puts it this way:
“…by “political correctness.” In the extended interviews and focus groups, participants made clear that they were concerned about their day-to-day ability to express themselves: They worry that a lack of familiarity with a topic, or an unthinking word choice, could lead to serious social sanctions for them. But since the survey question did not define political correctness for respondents, we cannot be sure what, exactly, the 80 percent of Americans who regard it as a problem have in mind.” Large Majorities Dislike Political Correctness - The Atlantic
3. My definition of political correctness is along the lines of these two:
Theodore Dalrymple:
Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better.
When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity.
To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed.
Karl Marx himself has stated that “The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism,” a sentiment that corresponds almost exactly to the Islamic idea that “peace” means the absence of opposition to Islamic rule. Cultural Marxism — aka Political Correctness — and Islam share the same totalitarian outlook and instinctively agree in their opposition to free discussion, and in the idea that freedom of speech must be curtailed when it is “offensive” to certain groups.
Gates of Vienna: Political Correctness — The Revenge of Marxism
Obama Supreme Court Justice Kagan has said just that: In a 1996 paper, "Private Speech, Public Purpose: The Role of Governmental Motive in First Amendment Doctrine," Kagan argued it may be proper to suppress speech because it is offensive to society or to the government
Recently, YASCHA MOUNK, a lecturer on government at Harvard, did a study of how permanent the Liberal Left’s imposition of political correctness is working out.
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