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Political Correctness, Right-Wing Style (gag alert)
NY Daily News ^
| 1/27/02
| By GAIL BUCKLEY
Posted on 01/27/2002 10:49:32 AM PST by NYCVirago
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This article is a great example of knee-jerk liberalism at its finest. The author is so intellectually lazy that she has to invoke Nazi comparisons in the very first paragraph. She claims to be for "freedom of thought," but she only wants that privilege for those who think like her. Anybody who can write that "left-wing political correctness may be silly...but right-wing PC is scary" with a straight face tells you all you need to know about her prejudices.
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posted on
01/27/2002 10:49:32 AM PST
by
NYCVirago
To: NYCVirago
I could probably get a free harry potter book with a purchase of a happy meal at McDonalds, but I have to feel guilty if I buy Pat Buchannon's latest book. Nazi, no.. Communist, yes.
To: NYCVirago
Liberal and Conservative PC are both silly. Did the man who tapped on the glass call the cops? Did they come and arrest people who did not sing God Bless America? No? I thought not.
Considering that her book is "American Patriots The Story of Black in the Military from the Revolution to Desert Storm." I do not consider her to be somsone to talk about conservative PC being scary. Why not write a book about all american patriots? Oh thats right its PC to write books talking about the skin color of one group of people.
To: NYCVirago
A Stanford University professor was listed for saying that Osama Bin Laden should be tried before an "international tribunal." Since Osama is another Hitler, I happen to agree. That's funny stuff. A historian under the impression that Hitler was tried under an international tribunal.
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posted on
01/27/2002 11:06:46 AM PST
by
Oschisms
To: NYCVirago
recent news photos of Christ Community Church in Alamogordo, N.M., burning copies of "Harry Potter" and Shakespeare Did Christ Community Church in Alamogordo, N.M. sieze anyone else's books and burn them? Did it take the books from the public library and burn them? If the church only burned copied which it owned, how is that worse than burning a flag?
If the church made no effort to destroy all or even a significant number of copies of the books(bet your last dollar on that), expressing fear of a mere media event is over-the-top political correctness.
To: NYCVirago
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posted on
01/27/2002 11:16:48 AM PST
by
damnlimey
To: conservatism_IS_compassion
Did Christ Community Church in Alamogordo, N.M. sieze anyone else's books and burn them? Did it take the books from the public library and burn them? If the church only burned copied which it owned, how is that worse than burning a flag? If the church made no effort to destroy all or even a significant number of copies of the books(bet your last dollar on that), expressing fear of a mere media event is over-the-top political correctness.
Great points! We're supposed to be all up in arms because a few yahoos burned their own copies of books? Oooh, scary.
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01/27/2002 11:22:31 AM PST
by
NYCVirago
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To: NYCVirago
Great points! We're supposed to be all up in arms because a few yahoos burned their own copies of books? Oooh, scary. Bravo, such fools, history is replete with the numerous social benefits derived from book burning!
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To: NYCVirago
burning copies of "Harry Potter" and Shakespeare immediately recall the Nazis.That is prima facie absurd. Those folks in that church presumably bought those books or they were donated by people who bought them. They can be used in any manner .
Burning those books was no different from throwing old comic books in the trash. They are the property of those that bought them to do with as they like.
It is something else when books are confiscated to be destroyed by the government or by one's neighbor, in which other it is Robbery and Arson and Malicious destruction of property, v.v.
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01/27/2002 11:33:13 AM PST
by
arthurus
To: NYCVirago
right wing thought control!
oh brother, i've heard it all now!
To: NYCVirago
"Left-wing political correctness may be silly and, as manifested by the Berkeley, Calif., City Council, deeply irritating but right-wing PC is scary.There are some concepts that are politically correct: patriotism, participatory government, personal freedoms, free enterprise.
To: damnlimey
you should send one of those to bill maher,
tho' i think he's too stupid to know what it means!
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To: NYCVirago; Oschisms
"[The American Council of Trustees and Alumni] posts names on the Web of professors and others whom its accuses of post-9/11 unpatriotic behavior." I would have to assume that this is in reference to their recent report Defending Civilization: How Our Universities Are Failing America and What Can Be Done About It . Since I read the report and noticed how conspicuous it was that the names of the professors were excluded, I checked. Sure enough, no listing of professors names (or others) listed on the website that I could find ACTA Site.
The author is so intellectually lazy that she has to invoke Nazi comparisons in the very first paragraph.
Lazy and stupid. The Nazi party was the National Socialist German Workers Party. Despite the questionable benefit brought to a German Worker, I cant imagine any Conservative favoring that much government involvement. What a lazy way to conduct a straw man argument.
That's funny stuff. A historian under the impression that Hitler was tried under an international tribunal.
Yeah, wasnt he sent to Devils Island where he was assassinated by Sirhan-Sirhan?
Owl _ Eagle
Guns before butter.
To: arthurus
. . .throwing comic books in the trash Now THAT goes beyond the pale (g)
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01/27/2002 12:14:31 PM PST
by
Salgak
To: Owl_Eagle
Page Six of today's New York Post has an item about how some Arab-American group is thinking about issuing an "Action Alert" because James Woods called terrorists "diaperheads." Will Ms. Lumet write a hand-wringing screed about the chilling effect of this action? Doubtful.
To: NYCVirago
Attorney General John Ashcroft who trampled on the free expression of Oregon and California voters by arbitrarily striking down their assisted suicide and medical marijuana laws is the frowny (or true) conservative face.A minor quibble--the free expression of Oregon and California
voters was recognized when they voted. What was damaged,
once again and on a continuing basis, was the right of states
to regulate items not specifically delegated to the Congress
by the US Constitution. This is the frowny (true) face of
drugwarrior/lifestyle-police conservatism, as it speaks out
for state's rights but on a highly selective basis.
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posted on
01/27/2002 12:24:33 PM PST
by
gcruse
To: NYCVirago
"Attorney General John Ashcroft who trampled on the free expression of Oregon and California voters by arbitrarily striking down their assisted suicide and medical marijuana laws is the frowny (or true) conservative face. What other state laws are in danger of being undone for ideological reasons by erstwhile believers in states' rights?"
As much as I hate to admit it the author is correct here.
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