Posted on 06/09/2008 11:49:52 AM PDT by bs9021
Losing Our Voice
by: Ben Giles, June 09, 2008
Dr. Victor Hanson thinks enough is enough. Throw political correctness out the door and speak your mind.
It is, after all, our basic Constitutional right.
“Right now, at this time, there is a collective mood in the West that is self-censoring, is not self-reflective, and it has had a deleterious effect on free expression,” said Hanson. “And while we have a history of state coercion of the individual, the problem right now is not in the stars, so to speak—it is within ourselves. And we have to ask why this is happening.”
Hanson, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institute, spoke June 3 at the Heritage Foundation of a post September 11, 2001 America that is far too concerned with being perceived as an overbearing Western power when dealing with beliefs and rhetoric contrary to its own.
Hanson narrows the cause of this change to three crucial post-modern ideologies: multiculturalism, utopian pacifism, and moral equivalence. To Hanson, the people who promote these mindsets are given more credit than they deserve.
“Once one adopts a cosmic view of the brotherhood of man or the egalitarianism of the individual, that provides all sorts of advantages to that person that holds those views,” said Hanson. “They don’t have to worry about intricacies…their motives are never questioned.”
He added: “None of us are sure what we can say or should say and it’s not being questioned because the people who are doing this have such unimpeachable motives.”
Hanson argued that this line of thought has misled the U.S. during the Iraq war and ongoing military involvement in the Middle East. He attributes utopian pacifism as the reason for the U.S. government’s concerns about what the enemy thinks and feels...
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I speak my mind and if they don’t like it, tough. I have told certain people that their Political Correctness is offensive to me and is censorship.
Screw Political Correctness.
Political Correctness = B S
Political Correctness = B S
I’m sure everybody here is quite familiar with this quote:
“I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it”
Come on America, thats the First Amendment in a nutshell. Live by it.
I prefer: “You may not agree with what I have to say, but I will defend to your death my right to say it.”
‘Think it’s not hard dealing with Hollywoodies, yet remaining in their good graces?
Political Correctness may get us all killed.
Thank God we’ve avoided another Sept. 11th. But can anyone honestly say that our PC airport security is the most effective it could be? We search 90 year old ladies in walkers as thoroughly as visitors from middle eastern countries known to harbor terrorists. We do this so we can bend over backwards to prove that we are not discriminating against any nationality or ethnicity. I wonder if Bin Laden and his boys are impressed at how sensitive we are.
And there are disputes about what to call the war on terror. We don’t want to say we’re at war with Islam, though sometimes it’s been said the enemy are Islamo-fascists. We have to listen to PC people say that there are terrorists of all religions, and how Timothy McVeigh was a Christian.
And the PC news media downplays the reports of those who behead Americans, and play up “torture” such as Abu Grahib(sp?).
And PC distorts social and human problems. We’re not supposed to be “judgemental” about children born out of wedlock, yet these children have some of the worst problems growing up. PC prevents us from even discussing certain problems as this.
Right on the button.
Even though the US Marines engaged jihadists in 1785 in order to force them to stop seizing US ships and US citizens near the Barbary States, Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria, the US Congress ratified a Constitution in 1787 that precluded the government from entering into ecclesiastical matters. While Congress “shall make no law” regarding a religious matter, we must find a way to prevent people from entering our country who have a hostile intent based solely in a religious doctrine.
How can we do this and not unleash a monster that will also devour other religions with unpopular points of doctrine like the FLDS?
Great post . . . thanks
That's a problem because it's a fine line between a religion and a cult. I say we just outlaw Islam, and leave it at that.
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