The original term for it was “Cultural Marxism”.
But, that’s too “truthy” for the left to implement it effectively.
Patton was almost fired.
Imagine....firing the best tank commander we had in WWII because he slapped a soldier.
A great deal of it originates from communist think-tanks, either state sponsored, groups, or individuals. A century long task to tip over the apple cart of society and rot it out from the inside.
I recall an article titled “Visigoths InTweed” by Thomas Sowell I believe, twenty or 25 years ago that was about the emerging PC on campus...
Political Correctness is 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.
The reason for the advance in government sponsored political correctness is the result of America's government Ineptocracy.
Ineptocracy (in-ep-toc’ra-cy)
A system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers.
Ineptocracy appears to have overcome and replaced Kakistocracy. kak•is•toc•ra•cy, Kakistocracy is Government by the least qualified or most unprincipled citizens.
I believe the accurate description for the private sector is the "Peter Principle".
PC came to the forefront in American society with the election of Slick Willie and his witchy wife in ‘92.
Frankfurt School: Marxist Infiltration And Subversion, Culture Wars
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Political correctness always comes into play when one has no just argument for their reasoning note every left winger and other crazy people.
Race baiters have learned how to use that system very well $$$$$$$$$.
Indeed. In fact for years I’ve argued that candidates for office need to run against it. Rush, Hannity et al should push for listeners to vote against PC if for nothing else. Fire school “administrators” and demand resignations of bureaucrats. We can play their game and should.
It is definitely no joke, and yeah, it could well ruin us.
But now things are going too far. I was on a sports forum recently and I posted a comment about a coach's actions retarding the progress of a particular player. I got a notice from the moderator that I could not use that word. There's nothing wrong with that word in that context. I've heard the word used in science classes to describe the effect of a chemical agent on something.
But the people who ran the forum were so p.c. they would not allow a word that was not meant to offend anybody but merely to illustrate the effect of a coach's actions on a player. I had to find another word.
However, now society has forbidden laughing about any protected group which is basically much of the liberal constituency. It's all an attempt to control speech and censor conservatives. And it's succeeding.
Social Dogma . . . It never admits to prohibiting freedom of speech; instead, it masquerades
in the Third Reich as “allegiance to the Fuhrer,”
in the Soviet realm as “class struggle,”
in the United States as “politically correct vocabulary.”
It never admits to obstructing the path of the talented; instead, it decrees
purification of the race (Third Reich),
leadership of the proletariat (Soviet Union),
affirmative action (United States).
It never admits to confiscating the property of those who had succeeded; instead, it claims
to recover “what the Jews had plundered” (Third Reich),
to establish national ownership (Soviet Union),
to protect the environment (United States).
Lind is fashioning a label and a history for current racial and sexual politics, in hopes that he can easily uproot it by calling it "cultural Marxism," but it's already pretty deeply rooted in some parts of American society.
Also, with all the research William Lind did, he really ought to have considered the consequences that throwing around a term like Kulturbolschewismus (cultural Marxism) had in European history.
This is an absolutely fantastic essay. Thanks not only for posting it, but drawing attention to the website hosting it, which is equally good!
Look at how many posters on Free Republic use the term “Native American.”
Members of the various tribes have genetic markers showing that their ancestors came from what, prior to 1991, used to be called Soviet Central Asia, others came from coastal China.
Their ancestors came across the land bridge now known as the Aleutian Island eons ago, long before people of European ancestry crossed the Atlantic.
The proper term should be First Peoples, or First People not “Native Americans.”
As long as PC is political, you can’t expect it to be correct. It’s never been more dangerous because it’s never been more effective. We are almost at the point of no return.
No, they don't HAVE to be afraid. Or, if they must be, they need to confront that fear by confronting the fascism that gives rise to it. It is a different kind of courage -- a moral courage -- but just as important in this culture war as the guts to charge a machine gun in combat.
I’ve said it for years. Political correctness will destroy America.
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