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Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Thanks for posting. Saved it.
It is not just political correctness. I have noticed it in family/friends. Make one mistake or say one wrong thing and....”I am done with them” is the first thing out of their mouths. The axe comes out. In the last year I have seen it first hand and dealt with it just yesterday. It used to take something that was actually malicious to make someone outraged or offended. Not anymore. The punishment is swift and final.
The whole thing is ridiculous.
Simply put, as a consequence of parents not making sure that their children are being taught about the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers, corrupt federal politicians are successfully trading votes for the constitutionally indefensible federal legalization of special privileges and sin.
We had a “Department of War” for almost 160 years, since 1949 it is named the “Department of Defense”.
Political correctness came from The Frankfurt School of Transitional Marxism and it’s prime directive is the transformation’’(sound familiar?) of Western civilization with the aim of eliminating the Judeo-Christian heritage that has given us the society we have known and replacing it with Marxism. It’s other main aim, to put it bluntly, is the dismantling, i.e ‘’fundamentally transforming America’’.(there’s that word again.) To bottom line it this means the end of America. This son of a bitch in The White House and those who trained him for this mission , Alinsky, Ayers and the rest of the communists and socialist scum are realizing their dream. They along with Obama need to be no more. This is serious. I said here and to all those I know that Barack Obama is not a president. He’s a warning.
Political correctness came from The Frankfurt School of Transitional Marxism and it’s prime directive is the transformation’’(sound familiar?) of Western civilization with the aim of eliminating the Judeo-Christian heritage that has given us the society we have known and replacing it with Marxism. It’s other main aim, to put it bluntly, is the dismantling, i.e ‘’fundamentally transforming America’’.(there’s that word again.) To bottom line it this means the end of America. This son of a bitch in The White House and those who trained him for this mission , Alinsky, Ayers and the rest of the communists and socialist scum are realizing their dream. They along with Obama need to be no more. This is serious. I said here and to all those I know that Barack Obama is not a president. He’s a warning.
Sorry for the double post. Danged middle aged eyesight.
Where no man....errr...Men...err..nobody has gone before...
Excellent essay, and written without the stuffy air of academia. A keeper for reference.
Obviously, in the 20th century where there's discontent or potential for disruption you'd find socialists or Marxists or communists or fascists, so clearly if you look at grievance movements (racial minorities, feminists, gay activists) you'll find leftists involved in the early stages.
The phrase "political correctness" was used by Communists in the 30s and by the New Left in the 60s before it was popularized by leftists, feminists, gay activists in the 1980s. You certainly could say that the word has a history involving Marxists.
But European Marxists didn't develop what we now call "political correctness." That was something Americans came up with and the connection to Adorno or Horkheimer is pretty tenuous. It's like blaming the philosophes for the French Revolution or Nietzsche for Nazism. There are intellectual connections, but they aren't as direct as some people suppose.
Lind seems to think that if he applies the phrase "cultural Marxism" to political correctness often enough and loudly enough, political correctness will just go away, and that won't happen. There are real political interests involved that don't derive from European theorists.
Finally, if the phrase "political correctness" has a dubious ideological history, so does the phrase "cultural Marxism" (Kulturbolshewismus). It's not really something one should throw around as freely and as naively as Lind does.
Remember when PC stood for Personal Computer?
Bump for later.
POLITICAL CORRECTNESS
”A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical liberal minority,
and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media,
which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible
to pick up a turd by the clean end.”
By spreading this definition around, perhaps we can employ one of the more effective methods of deflating and defeating the fools who practice and promote it: RIDICULE.
Unless stopped – and soon – PC will DESTROY Western Civilization — if it hasn’t already.
Read this, then read about the 45 communist goals listed in “The Naked Communist”; it all comes together.
It is said that Satan’s greatest deception is convincing us that he doesn’t exist; communism’s greatest deception is similar.
Bttt
And to add to that, I say “ Hail to the Redskins” and screw the PC would-be tyrants. PC ain't a joke. It is a deadly threat.
In a nutshell, political correctness is the establishment of a moral code which excludes God.
An abomination.
There are a lot more names for the list of culprits than just Horkheimer, Gramsci, Marcuse and those guys.
You also have to assign blame to Hegel, Kant, Rousseau, Hume, and Sartre, Camut, Derrida, Foucoult and others. I’ve read some of the above, and I’ve read about some of the above. Many others from throughout the centuries that I know even less about are certainly to share in the blame.
In short, they were all about trying to take God out of the equation and to do away with truth and accountability. And to attempt to impose chaos, such as the idea of synthetizing thesis and antithesis. This was Hegel’s version of yin and yang—the merging of opposites into one which is also very unGodly.