Posted on 06/28/2023 4:27:22 AM PDT by Redleg Duke
So, what is meant by the modern term referred to as 'POLITICAL CORRECTNESS'?
The definition is found in 4 telegrams at the Truman Library and Museum in Independence, Missouri. The following are copies of four telegrams between President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur on the day before the actual signing of the WWII Surrender Agreement in September 1945. The contents of those four telegrams below are exactly as received at the end of the war - not a word has been added, edited or deleted!
(1) Tokyo, Japan 0800-September 1,1945 To: President Harry S Truman From: General D A MacArthur Tomorrow we meet with those yellow-bellied bastards and sign the Surrender Documents, any last-minute instructions?
(2) Washington, DC 1300-September 1, 1945 To: D A MacArthur From: H S Truman Congratulations, job well done, but you must tone down your obvious dislike of the Japanese when discussing the terms of the surrender with the press, because some of your remarks are fundamentally not politically correct!
(3) Tokyo, Japan - 1630-September1, 1945 To: H S Truman From: D A MacArthur and C H Nimitz Wilco Sir, but both Chester and I are somewhat confused, exactly what does the term "politically correct" mean?
(4) Washington, D C - 2120-September 1, 1945 To: D A MacArthur/C H Nimitz From: H S Truman Political Correctness is a doctrine, recently fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and promoted by a sick mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a piece of shit by the clean end!
Now, with special thanks to the Truman Museum and Harry himself, you and I finally have a full understanding of what 'POLITICAL CORRECTNESS' really means....
Way before that. The writings of Gramsci advocating “cultural hegemony” go back to the 1920s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Gramsci
Guess I should have read your link before I posted. GMTA!
I have been unable to find it, but I recall a column by the great Thomas Sowell over 35 years that foretold the coming PC crap...
the title was VISIGOTHS IN TWEED
My dad took me to see Harry in Vinita, OK when he made his whistle stop tour, I was 10 years old and was close enough to spit on him. Doubt I could get that close to Biden today.
The whole country did.
BS
You have stated the blind, the cover, the hoax being perpetrated.
Political correctness is purely a method of capturing the language and thus the minds and thus the mindset of the citizenry.
Being one of the gullibly masses, you have been duped
By making all cultures equal by definition, offensive or derogatory words against any one culture by those of another were deemed to be "politically incorrect" speech, and those who uttered those words were call racists, bigots, xenophobes, and homophobes and intolerant.
That's where it began and that's where the cancel slurs started to be used by the left to shut down the right.
-PJ
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