Posted on 11/18/2016 7:38:18 AM PST by Academiadotorg
If you wonder where the politically correct malady that afflicts America came from, Boston University professor emeritus Angelo M. Codevilla has the answer.
"The notion of political correctness came into use among Communists in the 1930s as a semi-humorous reminder that the Party's interest is to be treated as a reality that ranks above reality itself," Dr. Codevilla writes in the Fall 2016 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.
Dr. Codevilla indicates that the politically correct directive began word-of-mouth as a running joke that communists told each other that went like this:
"Comrade, your statement is factually incorrect."
"Yes, it is. But it is politically correct."
(Really, communist party meetings must have been every bit as riotous and fun-filled as Modern Language Association (MLA) conventions are today. Come to think of it….)
Indeed, Dr. Codevilla may be the premier scholar of our age. In his masterful treatise, he traces the evolution of political correctness from Communist Party inside joke to ruling doctrine in the United States. It is an ominous chronology.
"Why does the American Left demand ever-new P.C. obeisances?," Dr. Codevilla asks. "In 2012 no one would have thought that defining marriage between one man and one woman, as enshrined in U.S. law, would brand those who do so as motivated by a culpable psychopathology called 'homophobia,' subject to fines and near outlaw status."
"Not until 2015-16 did it occur to anyone that requiring persons with male personal plumbing to use public bathrooms reserved for men was a sign of the same pathology. Why had not these become part of the P.C. demands previously? Why is there no canon of P.C. that, once filled, would require no further additions? Because the point of P.C. is not and has never been merely about any of the items that it imposes, but about the imposition itself."
My old boss and mentor--the late author M. Stanton Evans, who was a friend and colleague of Dr. Codevilla's--used to joke, "Liberals don't care what you do as long as it's compulsory." Stan, who passed away in 2015, also used to note that current events were moving beyond satire.
It got its power in 1920 when women got the right to vote.
And the speaker of that sentence often ended up with a bullet to the back of the neck. The end game of the Left.
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Time to kill the engine with reality.
I think that may be the best summation/definition I've ever read.
The Venona Intercepts documented this as a Communist concept.
....I know where I’d like to put it...
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....I know where I’d like to put it...
The dust bin of History?
See Yuri Bezmenov vids....the amount of brainwashing done by the left will require decades to overcome.
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That’s the polite version, we’ll stick with that.
“politically correct directive began word-of-mouth as a running joke”
the Communist/Left is just a joke, ridiculous ideas and not in dealing in reality.
Good line.
include heavily The Frankfurt School people that came from Germany in the 1940’s to commence their Marxist-socialist agenda in America — to change America slowly but steadily over time, by indoctrinating our children.
Their minions infiltrated Columbia U. (and who has studied THERE?) which became their HQ, then other teaching colleges, public schools, unions, the Democrat Party, media, and church leadership.
They brought us consensus building and sensitivity training.
Reminds me of this line: “Liberalism: Ideas so good they must be enforced.”
What was indeed a cynical joke in Communist Russia, has become a social litmus test in compulsion driven Clinton/Bush/Obama America.
“Bruce Jenner became female” is factually incorrect, but “Caitlyn Jenner” is female is politically correct.
I had practically a whole essay typed up and then screwed it up.
Anyway, here’s a short video. Want more? Search “Yuri Bezmenov” on Youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlpODYhnPEo&t=56s
Google the following for LOTS more info:
Cultural Marxism
Critical Theory
Polymorphous perversity
Antonio Gramsci
György Lukács
Frankfurt School
Theodor Adorno
Herbert Marcuse
Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen
Saul Alinsky
Main goal of the originators of PC, destroy Western civilization to establish their utopia, which inevitably leads to genocide of dissenters. Undermine Western civilization by attacking:
1. Patriotism.
2. The Family.
3. Christianity.
4. Private Property.
Critical Theory and Polymorphous Perversity are the two main tools they use to divide and conquer.
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