Posted on 10/13/2018 6:16:59 PM PDT by TBP
“Eighty percent of Americans see political correctness as a problem. And I think it’s our problem,” Maher explained. “And I don’t know why more mainstream liberals don’t denounce the political correctness that they must know in private conversations is insane.”
When asked to define political correctness, Maher cited the apology astronaut Scott Kelly issued this week after he was criticized for quoting Winston Churchill on Twitter.
“[Kelly] had to issue an apology for that for quoting Churchill because Churchill I guess Churchill lived by the standards of the 19th Century,” Maher said. “This is the guy who saved us from the Nazis!”
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Sounds like my kinda book... it is now on my list.
Bill Maher has moments of clarity now and then, enough to see a bit of the light. But the dark side keeps pulling him back. ^_^
Yes, he's an interesting mix. His mother was Jewish and he suports Israel more than the 'palestinians' and Islam. He is wacked in a lot of other ways. It's odd to be on his side at times and ready to smack him on something else.
The Left can’t change though, because political correctness, and the topics it wants to make taboo, are the foundation of their ideology.
Get rid of political correctness, and you are no longer a leftist.
“The leftists don’t do PC because they think it’s a good idea. Of course they know a lot of these are a joke. They do it to see how much crap the conservatives will let them get away with. ....”
Good job, Thank You. Your description dots the “i’s and crosses “t’s” to be as accurate a description of PC & leftist BS as I’ve seen. Also brings to mind the method spoiled but savvy children use to jerk adult chains.
“The major problem with liberalism is that it isn’t the least bit liberal.”
There’s nothing liberal about the liberalism of the left. They’re totalitarian statists, they’re the exact opposite of classical liberals.
Maher occasionally spouts some common sense to keep the right side peeking in from time to time.
That’s funny!(grins!!)(HaHa!!)
I think it was on Greg Gutfeld’s show last night when this was discussed. The pro-PC people are such a small percentage and he and a guest talked about “shared risk” (I think that’s the phrase). I need to re-watch it, but I think the concept is that it wouldn’t take long to end the PC culture if we would stand up to it because there are so many more of us.
Marxism Requires Censorship.
PC is censorship, disguised as “virtue signalling.”
Useful idiots required.
Yes, PC is and important part of totalitarian culture. As Theodore Dalrymple put it:
"Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to."
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