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Political Correctness
The Washington Times Communities ^ | 11/08/2011 | Gabriella Hoffman

Posted on 11/09/2011 12:26:44 AM PST by gabriellah

There is an all-pervading problem going unnoticed by many in the United States. Although wasteful spending, big government policies, and corruption have exhausted and equally crippled our economy, this problem poses a greater threat to our livelihood. That problem is political correctness.

A recent Rasmussen Report poll revealed that 79 percent of Americans think political correctness is problematic in America.

What is political correctness, and who is responsible for it?

(Excerpt) Read more at communities.washingtontimes.com ...


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KEYWORDS: holidays; leftists; marxism; pc

1 posted on 11/09/2011 12:26:47 AM PST by gabriellah
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To: gabriellah

“Political correctness” - - is that why all the newspaper stories about Penn State are careful not to use a phrase like, “homosexual pedophile rape”?


2 posted on 11/09/2011 12:33:23 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: gabriellah

Me, me, me! I’ve been saying that political correctness, and everything closely associated with political correctness, is a serious problem, for many years, and it’s a worldwide problem-not, just, a U.S. problem. Conservatives, worldwide, need to work together on all of the issues that they have in common.


3 posted on 11/09/2011 12:35:50 AM PST by johnthebaptistmoore (If leftist legislation that's already in place really can't be ended by non-leftists, then what?)
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To: gabriellah

Liberals started PC. PC means one can’t tell the truth as it is. Darkness hates light. The godless liberals hate the truth.


4 posted on 11/09/2011 12:51:10 AM PST by presently no screen name
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To: gabriellah

political correctness is when you are seriously terrified of even mentioning your wifes height for fear that 15 years later you might lose your job over the statement because someone was offended.


5 posted on 11/09/2011 12:52:18 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Cain 2012!)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

15 years later you might lose your job over the statement because someone was offended.

It boils down to issues of “personal responsibility”. Your example is just one of millions, of the denial of personal responsibility. Being offended is a choice. A very poor choice I might add, but a choice non the less. Choices have consequences on the chooser, NOT on the one accused of doing something that caused a poor choice to be made by a chooser.

In the pc world, black is white, truth is relative, and the world is upside down. Shades of gray discolor reality to the degree there is no reality. The foundational principles upon which the Republic was founded, have been shown the door, and we descend into a no fault hell, in which there is plenty of fault to go around, just the wrong people are blamed, and those truly to blame remain innocent little lambs.


6 posted on 11/09/2011 1:59:20 AM PST by wita
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“Freedom is sacred, and the United States cannot not breed an environment that aids and abets political correctness.”

Usage of the terms “political correctness” and “PC” doesn’t do us any favors. They give the impression or suggest that their meanings are benign.

It’s time to call a spade a spade. Take control of the language and have control of the debate. That’s why “PC” and political “correctness” are nothing like what they’re names suggest.


7 posted on 11/09/2011 2:42:52 AM PST by equaviator ( "There's a (datum) plane on the horizon coming in...see it?")
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PC created by the rats as a ball and chain on those who seek the truth and personal responsibility, namely us. Racists is one good example. It's a way around your right to free speech
8 posted on 11/09/2011 2:44:17 AM PST by ronnie raygun (V)
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To: equaviator
Take control of the language and have control of the debate. That’s why “PC” and political “correctness” are nothing like what they’re names suggest.

Correct! The intent is to silence the opposition to leftist policies.

9 posted on 11/09/2011 3:08:25 AM PST by Mind-numbed Robot
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To: gabriellah
One of the worst P.C. madness is, not profiling young Arab men at air ports.
10 posted on 11/09/2011 4:06:55 AM PST by Graybeard58 (Of course Obama loves his country but Herman Cain loves mine.)
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To: Mind-numbed Robot

PC is ethics for atheists.


11 posted on 11/09/2011 4:23:52 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (Government must be taken back from the thieves who have stolen it.)
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To: equaviator

I call it cultural marxism...works for me.


12 posted on 11/09/2011 4:56:52 AM PST by spankalib (OWS is a basement skunkworks operation of the AFL-CIO)
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To: wita

Being offended is sort of a version of what used to be called a guilt trip it seems.


13 posted on 11/09/2011 6:02:51 AM PST by Anima Mundi (If you build it, they will come and take it away from you..)
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To: ronnie raygun

Amen!


14 posted on 11/09/2011 7:20:39 AM PST by wita
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To: spankalib

I like it...CM.

I came up with “Viral Subversion”.


15 posted on 11/09/2011 2:43:39 PM PST by equaviator ( "There's a (datum) plane on the horizon coming in...see it?")
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Yours is good...I’m pretty sure I picked up CM from someone here...so it’s “ours” now.
Cheers!


16 posted on 11/09/2011 3:09:21 PM PST by spankalib (OWS is a basement skunkworks operation of the AFL-CIO)
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