Political Correctness
Gone Wild with Norm
Where does all this stuff that you’ve heard about this
morning – the victim feminism, the gay rights movement, the invented
statistics, the rewritten history, the lies, the demands, all the rest of it –
where does it come from? For the first time in our history, Americans have to
be fearful of what they say, of what they write, and of what they think. They
have to be afraid of using the wrong word, a word denounced as offensive or
insensitive, or racist, sexist, or homophobic.
We have seen other countries, particularly in this century,
where this has been the case. And we have always regarded them with a mixture
of pity, and to be truthful, some amusement, because it has struck us as so
strange that people would allow a situation to develop where they would be
afraid of what words they used. But we now have this situation in this country.
We have it primarily on college campuses, but it is spreading throughout the
whole society. Were does it come from? What is it?
What Is Political Correctness?
Political Correctness
(PC) is the communal tyranny that erupted in the 1980s. It was a spontaneous
declaration that particular ideas, expressions and behaviour, which were then
legal, should be forbidden by law, and people who transgressed should be
punished. (see Newspeak) It started with a few voices but grew in popularity
until it became unwritten and written law within the community. With those who
were publicly declared as being not politically correct becoming the object of
persecution by the mob, if not prosecution by the state.
The Odious Nature Of Political Correctness
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 community's safe-guards against the imposition of tyranny, indeed their
absence is tyranny (see "On Liberty", Chapter II, by J.S. Mill).
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.
Clear Inspiration For Political Correctness
The declared rational
of this tyranny is to prevent people being offended; to compel everyone to
avoid using words or behaviour that may upset homosexuals, women, non-whites,
the crippled, the stupid, the fat or the ugly. This reveals not only its
absurdity but its inspiration. The set of values that are detested are those
held by the previous generation (those who fought the Second World War), which
is why the terms niggers, coons, dagos, wogs, poofs, spastics and sheilas, have
become heresy, for, in an act of infantile rebellion, their subject have become
revered by the new generation. Political Correctness is merely the resentment
of spoilt children directed against their parent's values.
The Origins Of Political Correctness
A community declines
when the majority of its citizens become selfish, and under this influence it
slowly dismantles all the restraints upon self-indulgence established by
manners, customs, beliefs and law: tradition. (See the law of reverse
civilization) As each subsequent generation of selfish citizens inherits
control of the community, it takes its opportunity to abandon more of the
irksome restraints that genius and wisdom had installed. The proponents of this
social demolition achieve their irrational purpose by publicly embracing
absurdity through slogans while vilifying any who do not support their stance.
The purpose of the slogan is to enshrine irrational fears, or fancies, as truth
through the use of presumptuous words, so public pronouncement:
•Dissembles the real nature of the claim
•Identifies any dissenters as enemies of the truth
•Acts as an excuse for any crimes committed in its name
We call it “Political Correctness.” The name originated as
something of a joke, literally in a comic strip, and we tend still to think of
it as only half-serious. In fact, it’s deadly serious. It is the great disease
of our century, the disease that has left tens of millions of people dead in
Europe, in Russia, in China, indeed around the world. It is the disease of
ideology. PC is not funny. PC is deadly serious.
If we look at it analytically, if we look at it
historically, we quickly find out exactly what it is. Political Correctness is
cultural Marxism. It is Marxism translated from economic into cultural terms.
It is an effort that goes back not to the 1960s and the hippies and the peace
movement, but back to World War I. If we compare the basic tenets of Political
Correctness with classical Marxism the parallels are very obvious.
First of all, both are totalitarian ideologies. The
totalitarian nature of Political Correctness is revealed nowhere more clearly
than on college campuses, many 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. Within
the small legal system of the college, they face formal charges – some
star-chamber proceeding – and punishment. That is a little look into the future
that Political Correctness intends for the nation as a whole.
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