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The Twisted Motives Behind Political Correctness
Zero Hedge ^ | 2-19-2014 | Tyler Durden

Posted on 02/20/2014 5:56:37 PM PST by Renfield

As I have confessed in the past, in my early years I found myself active in the Democratic Party and the general liberal methodology. I had no understanding of the concept of the false left/right paradigm. I had no inkling of the dangers of globalism and central banking. I had no concept of decentralization or non-participation. I had never even heard of libertarianism. I knew only that George W. Bush was a criminal (and I was right), but the problem went far deeper than the GOP. I was astoundingly ignorant of the bigger picture.

However, what I did have going for me was an almost violent sense of nonconformity. I hated collectivists, yet I found myself surrounded by them while working within the leftist culture. It was the insanity of self-proclaimed “liberals” that taught me the true nature of the facade of politics. When I realized that the Democrats were essentially the same corrupt entity as the neoconservatives, everything in my life changed...

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: culture; leftism; society

1 posted on 02/20/2014 5:56:37 PM PST by Renfield
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To: Renfield

> from the article:

“One aspect of liberalism with which I am now very familiar is political correctness. I didn’t understand it at the time, not until I stepped outside the cultism of it and looked in from a wiser place. It always bothered me, but I couldn’t quite grasp why until later. Then, it hit me like a revelation. Political correctness was not a political ideology. No, it was a religion, a full-fledged spiritual con, a New Age ghetto of frothing mishmash that is sociological voodoo. And the leftists were eating it up like steak night at an all-you-can-eat buffet.

These people were rationally retarded. Every idea they proposed they merely parroted from books and articles they had read. They were like malfunctioning automatons trapped in a cycle of discontented social criticism. Their desperation to invent meaning in the midst of their irrelevant lives made me feel ill. If they could not find a legitimate cause to champion, they would create one out of thin air and defend it relentlessly, regardless of how shallow it truly was.”

Truth from a liberal ...finally.


2 posted on 02/20/2014 6:04:50 PM PST by jsanders2001
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To: Renfield
Manipulation of the language is a tried and true method.

In the Language of the 3rd Reich Victor Klemperer explains how the nazis manipulated the German language as a means of manipulating German society into accepting nazi goals and ideals.

Language of the Third Reich

Victor Klemperer (1881-1960) was Professor of French Literature at Dresden University. As a Jew, he was removed from his university post in 1935, only surviving thanks to his marriage to an Aryan.

First published in 1957, The Language of the Third Reich arose from Klemperer's conviction that the language of the Third Reich helped to create its culture. As Klemperer writes: 'It isn't only Nazi actions that have to vanish, but also the Nazi cast of mind, the typical Nazi way of thinking, and its breeding ground: the language of Nazism.'

This brilliant book is by turns entertaining and profound, saddening and horrifying. It is deservedly one of the great twentieth-century studies of language and its engagement with history.

Translated by Dr Martin Brady.

3 posted on 02/20/2014 6:07:22 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Renfield

The old saying: If, at 21 you’re NOT liberal, you have no soul. If, at 41 you’re not conservative, you have no brains.


4 posted on 02/20/2014 6:12:20 PM PST by cloudmountain
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To: cripplecreek

As Lenin said, it is who counts/interpretes the votes.

I believe he had some hidden PC agenda, probably a closet homosexual.

I find it amazing that a kid who should be in jail for sex harassment is suing for his right in a girl bathroom.


5 posted on 02/20/2014 6:18:03 PM PST by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall not be infringed)
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To: jsanders2001

even my own eyes get opened everyday about the lynch mob mentality of liberals.

When OJ went to jail and they cheered, I thought they cheered about reasonable doubt.

No, because when Zimmerman got out on reasonable doubt and presumption of innocence, they all wanted to lynch him anyways, as in Justice for Trayvon. And I am talking about white libtards.

The same thing happen with Nifong when he got in trouble with all kinds of crazy supporters chanting for him in the Duke Lacross trial flap.

libtards do not believe in fair trials or juries or reasonable doubt when the target is a political foe. They are absolutely out of their freaking minds.

And it is a religion, because Atheists of this kind have to worship something. When everything is done to prevent someone from having some God to worship or some avenue to speak, completely repressed, they come out swinging for their antichrist once it is declared to them.

The like of Obama are indeed Kool Aid cultists because they are in a process of suicide, but their ego demands that the followers drink the juice for him first.


6 posted on 02/20/2014 6:30:12 PM PST by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall not be infringed)
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To: Renfield

Understanding How Modern Liberals Think

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODXgGS50AVY


7 posted on 02/20/2014 6:32:40 PM PST by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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To: lavaroise

Somewhere deep down many liberals must realize that something is very wrong or they wouldn’t be so angry all the time.

I’ve got a militant lesbian cousin who lives for her anger. She feeds and nurtures it to keep it alive.


8 posted on 02/20/2014 6:33:11 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: cripplecreek

Political Correctness is actually a rather brutal form of sophistry.

Once you see that you see how to beat it.


9 posted on 02/20/2014 6:35:02 PM PST by Fai Mao (Genius at Large)
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To: Renfield

Political correctness not only demands that the bad apples not be removed from the barrel, but even goes so far as encourage the rest of the apples to spoil.


10 posted on 02/20/2014 6:45:04 PM PST by clearcarbon
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To: Fai Mao

I know liberal ideals are pretty brutally enforced among liberals.


11 posted on 02/20/2014 6:55:09 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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Tyler Durden has a Disqus account and posts frequently at places like Breitbart and Newsbusters. He argues the leftist theme du jour and is usually just relentlessly argumentative.

If he thinks GW was a criminal then he should think Øbongo is Lex Luthor (but doesn’t).


12 posted on 02/20/2014 7:06:41 PM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: Renfield; All
The Origins of Political Correctness, February 5, 2000 by Bill Lind. An Accuracy in Academia Address.

If you haven't read it, I highly recommend you do.

13 posted on 02/20/2014 7:54:43 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: cloudmountain

> The old saying: If, at 21 you’re NOT liberal, you have no soul. If, at 41 you’re not conservative, you have no brains.

There’s truth in that old saying. They haven’t been lied to as many times as we have and are juat plain naieve until they learn their lesson. Unfortunately Obama is going to be a lesson that will have far-reaching consequences that will remain if he continues the destruction of our country.


14 posted on 02/20/2014 8:09:17 PM PST by jsanders2001
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To: stinkerpot65

That’s an outstanding video. Almost anything by David Horowitz of Front Page Magazine is good too.


15 posted on 02/20/2014 8:11:13 PM PST by Free in Texas (Member of the Bitter Clingers Association.)
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To: rockrr

I get that Durden may have written the piece as a way to open up dialogue to draw conservatives out so he can play whack a mole. I’m pretty familiar with the liberal mindset. Liberals have a tendency to think they’re more clever and intellectual than their conservative counteparts. Ovverconfidence is usually faux behavior and and exhibition of insecurity that can be exploited so its a good thing in my book...: )


16 posted on 02/20/2014 8:22:19 PM PST by jsanders2001
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To: jsanders2001

I get that Durden may have written the piece as a way to open up dialogue to draw conservatives out so he can play whack a mole. I’m pretty familiar with the liberal mindset. Liberals have a tendency to think they’re more clever and intellectual than their conservative counteparts. Overconfidence is usually faux behavior and and exhibition of insecurity that can be exploited so its a good thing in my book...: )


17 posted on 02/20/2014 8:23:01 PM PST by jsanders2001
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To: stinkerpot65

Thank you so much for sharing that video. What a brilliant man.


18 posted on 02/20/2014 9:25:42 PM PST by uncitizen (Impeach the Communist Already!)
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To: jsanders2001
There’s truth in that old saying. They haven’t been lied to as many times as we have and are juat plain naieve until they learn their lesson. Unfortunately Obama is going to be a lesson that will have far-reaching consequences that will remain if he continues the destruction of our country.

True enough, all that you say.

LUCKILY, Obama will reach the end of his second term and we start the games all over again. 2008 was SIX years ago so we only have to put up with him for two more years.
Do you think we can hold on for two more years?

19 posted on 02/21/2014 4:11:02 PM PST by cloudmountain
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