[mercy]

C.S. Lewis wrote a quite thorough and enlightening little book on PCness in the forties. "The Abolition of Man"

[piasa]

Thanks for posting this.

[gcruse]

I'll accept the author's word that the term Political Correctness was born in 1923 if he says so. However, the concept of euphemising something unpleasant to make those who partake in it less so goes back at least to the exchange of 'welfare' for 'dole.' Most likely, dole was a polite way of saying something worse at one time itself. Do you think hanging PC on communism is beating a dead, and possible incorrect horse?

[Righty1]

Hitlery, Dashole, and Reno worship at the PC altar for obvious reasons. The extent to which this mind altering form of mental terrorism has taken over universities is repugnant. I for one will not contribute to a PC U. My two alma maters just don't get it. The tute is sending some poor sacrificial nerdlein to find out first hand if I mean it!

[weikel]

bookmarkked bttt

[68skylark]

For those who are interested in this sort of thing (i.e. the history and evloution of ideas), my favorite writer by far is Camile Paglia. I can highly recommend her books, even though a lot of what she writes is over my head.

She traces the origins of political correctness (or "social constructionism") to French philosophers, starting with Rousseau. And it reaches it's most hideous modern development in Focoult -- who's like a god to two-bit left-wing academics.

It's intersting that the people who seem most enthused about PC thinking (like journalists, left-fringe politicians, and various "activists") have very little knowledge about where their ideas come from.

[Dakmar]

Frankfurt School

[upchuck]

I recently attended a dinner where the speaker was, shall we say, "unsighted." When it came time for him to be introduced, the woman doing the introduction said he was, "vision impaired."

When he got up to speak, he thanked her for the intro and then said, "But you've got my disability all wrong. I'm not vision impaired, I'm blind as a bat." The audience kind of shifted nervously. He picked up on this and said, "No really, I'm totally blind, can't see a damned thing." The audience gave him a round of applause. And he gave a GREAT speech on the Constitution. It was amazing all the info he held in his mind since he didn't use notes.

[Octar]

Thanks for posting this.

[Caipirabob]

COOL! We have the "Bookmark" option back! I hadn't seen it for a while and stopped looking for it until now.

I'm going to forward this to EVERYONE I know once I restore my mail list from my other (recently replaced by this MONSTER MACHINE sitting in front of me.)

BUMP! For the truth about PC!

[prognostigaator]

bump

[lavaroise]

Ha! More philosophical excrements from Germany. When you think about PC, and how it names people/individuals as one would name cattle, you figure that communism and nazism are twin brothers.

[Argh]

Bump and thanks.

[junta]

If there be one human being that I wish a high speed lead injection on it is Castro.