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Political Correctness Poisons Free Speech
The Minnesota Daily online ^

Posted on 12/29/2001 12:11:38 PM PST by Enough is ENOUGH

Exerpt: "The connection between the Frankfurt School and the student rebellion of the 1960s was made primarily by a key Frankfurt School member, Herbert Marcuse -- the man who in the '60s coined the phrase, "Make love, not war." Marcuse's books, "Eros" and "Civilization," argued that the tools with which to destroy Western culture were, in effect, sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. He popularized the Frankfurt School's ideas in ways the '60s radicals could understand and absorb, and we now know his work as political correctness."

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We react daily to the consequences of "political correctness" without addressing its source. We cannot wage a war against this evil without an understanding of its founder, Antonio Gramsci and his purpose.
1 posted on 12/29/2001 12:11:39 PM PST by Enough is ENOUGH
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Gramsci's Grand Plan
2 posted on 12/29/2001 12:36:04 PM PST by Enough is ENOUGH
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Thanks for posting this. It needs to be addressed. It can't be stated enough that PC is the death of free speech. It appears that was the intent, and it worked, even among conservatives.
3 posted on 12/29/2001 12:40:14 PM PST by ladyinred
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Exerpts:

"In order for political correctness to succeed, the people who will never give up their freedom must be undermined. Give credibility to those who support you and take it away from those who don’t. For this reason, political correctness favors words and phrases that carry a certain bias. Homophobia, for example, is a misleading term. Homophobic people are not afraid of homosexuals as the suffix phobic implies. These people are not ridden with some disease. Homophobic is a term given to people who disapprove of homosexuality. Here, political correctness subtly slanders the belief that homosexuality is deviant behavior. At the same time, it defends homosexuality, a lifestyle formerly shunned by our culture."

"Political correctness forces people to focus conversation on attitude and not logic. Political correctness encourages mindless appreciation of equality at the expensive of honest thought and logic... Political correctness also supplies an abundance of words that are less accurate than the words they aim to replace."

Political Correctness

4 posted on 12/29/2001 12:46:06 PM PST by Enough is ENOUGH
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To: ladyinred
Thank you for your comments.

Here is a link to an interesting article by Ace, the author who also wrote the article, Original Sin.

Education: The Fifth Estate

5 posted on 12/29/2001 12:53:17 PM PST by Enough is ENOUGH
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Up From Multiculturaslism by David Horowitz
6 posted on 12/29/2001 12:59:51 PM PST by Enough is ENOUGH
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Good post.

For those who don't know, Gramsci basically was a proponent of "Cultural Marxism" or "Marxism by other Means".

Gramsci, and the Frankfurt school knew that undisguised Marxism would never make it in Western civilization, so they came up with a camouflaged version.

The Democrat party is basically a cultural Marxist party today, and the GOP is well on the way to becoming one.

The people on this website who are always pushing the "abuse" button to stifle views that transgress political correctness are basically Gramscian Marxists.

They may call themselves "conservatives" or "Republicans", but their tactics and end-goal is the same.

7 posted on 12/29/2001 1:06:26 PM PST by bulldog905
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Good post.

For those who don't know, Gramsci basically was a proponent of "Cultural Marxism" or "Marxism by other Means".

Gramsci, and the Frankfurt school knew that undisguised Marxism would never make it in Western civilization, so they came up with a camouflaged version.

The Democrat party is basically a cultural Marxist party today, and the GOP is well on the way to becoming one.

The people on this website who are always pushing the "abuse" button to stifle views that transgress political correctness are basically Gramscian Marxists.

They may call themselves "conservatives" or "Republicans", but their tactics and end-goal is the same.

8 posted on 12/29/2001 1:07:45 PM PST by bulldog905
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I was an "American Studies" major in college and graduated in 1991. I never really understood what hit me quite frankly, but the last 10 years have been an intense unlearning of what in retrospect was clear Marxist indoctrination. The head of the department was so smart. Such a hipster, too. And she played up the roloe of understanding older sister versus the domineering mother or father figure.

All of the European names from above: Adorno, Marcuse, Fromm, Lukacs, etc. were part of my curriculum. And "deconstruction" was the name of the game. And to be honest with you, I think I was saved because I plum didn't understand it -- at all.

By the end of my Junior year, I was confused and just wanted to graduate. At a friends graduation from Stanford, his religious studies department graduation was held with the 'American Studies' Dept. I half jokingly asked one of the Am studies grads: "So what exactly is 'American Studies'?"

His response was just as confusing as my own interpretation of what it was.

In retrospect it was clearly subversive anti-Americanism built up with a name that was probably meant to draw in young, impressionable dupes like me.

Part of me is angry at myself that I was not up for the challenge to take on the drivel at the time, bt I was not as armed as I am today. And part of me wants to give back the degree which cost my parents a pretty penny.

But my resolution is keeping up with a true education on what it is to be truly American. And to study America is not to add up slavery with the Japanese internment and multiply it by Jim Crow.

I do think my obligation is to tell people, anyone who will listen, that getting back the universities is as important as getting back the media. I think that David Horowitz is clearly the most knowledgable leader on this front, but there needs to be a Bernard Goldberg and a Tammy Bruce from within the Ivy Walls with a liberal pedigree who helps to break down the dam.

And tying the academia to the media as the main culprits in the degradation of American values and standards could be legitimate goals in the Culture War in the coming years.

The current period in which we live (heightened patriotism) has put THEM on the defensive. We have control and should not shrink from the responsibility. It is time to go on the offensive and the publishing this piece in a college publication is a nice start.

9 posted on 12/29/2001 1:08:18 PM PST by andrew
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PC – The Rise of the Religion of the New World Order by Diane Alden
10 posted on 12/29/2001 1:14:09 PM PST by Enough is ENOUGH
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Political correctness is intellectual fascism
11 posted on 12/29/2001 1:16:13 PM PST by Centurion2000
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To: andrew
Good post! Your parents money was wisely spent.
12 posted on 12/29/2001 1:16:26 PM PST by elbucko
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The current period in which we live (heightened patriotism) has put THEM on the defensive. We have control and should not shrink from the responsibility. It is time to go on the offensive and the publishing this piece in a college publication is a nice start.
13 posted on 12/29/2001 1:17:10 PM PST by victim soul
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On the 12th day of the Eurocentrically imposed midwinter festival, my Significant Other in a consenting adult, monogamous relationship gave to me:
TWELVE males reclaiming their inner warrior through ritual drumming,
ELEVEN pipers piping (plus the 18-member pit orchestra made up of members in good standing of the Musicians Equity Union as called for in their union contract even though they will not be asked to play a note).
TEN melanin-deprived testosterone-poisoned scions of the patriarchal ruling class system leaping,
NINE persons engaged in rhythmic self-expression,
EIGHT economically disadvantaged female persons stealing milk-products from enslaved Bovine-Americans,
SEVEN endangered swans swimming on federally protected wetlands,
SIX enslaved Fowl-Americans producing stolen non-human animal products,
FIVE golden symbols of culturally sanctioned enforced domestic incarceration, (NOTE: after members of the Animal Liberation Front threatened to throw red paint at my computer, the calling birds, French hens and partridge have been reintroduced to their native habitat. To avoid further Animal-American enslavement, the remaining gift package has been revised.)
FOUR hours of recorded whale songs,
THREE deconstructionist poets,
TWO Sierra Club calendars printed on recycled processed tree carcasses, and
ONE Spotted Owl activist chained to an old-growth pear tree. Happy Holidays!!!! (unless otherwise prohibited by law) Unless, of course, you are suffering from Seasonally Affected Disorder (SAD). If this be the case, please substitute this gratuitous call for celebration with a suggestion that you have a thoroughly adequate day.
14 posted on 12/29/2001 1:19:12 PM PST by FractalSphere
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This a fascinating subject because it's definitely the root cause of what ails this country. We've identified this cancer eating away at our very substance. The key question is how do we eradicate it before PC totally cripples our ability to exercise our God given rights?
15 posted on 12/29/2001 1:24:04 PM PST by american spirit
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To: andrew
Whatever your experiences in college, you have turned into a clear thinker and a good writer. Keep it up, and don't look back. You are already better educated than most of your college professors, regardless of who has what degrees.

I had a similar experience in the Ph.D. Program at American University. The Chair of the Department, Dr. Laura Langbein, made no bones about being a Marxist. And the theoretician she most promoted was a women named Theda (Something) on the faculty of Harvard, also a Marxist.

It is difficult, but not impossible, when the authority figures around you, and most importantly the professors who are grading your papers, are arrogant believers in a false philosophy. But nobody ever said that life was fair.

Congratulations on your intellectual journey. In the immortal words of Stephen Decatur (as I recall), "Damn the torpedos. Full speed ahead."

Congressman Billybob

Click and bookmark. You'll thank me (I believe).

16 posted on 12/29/2001 1:27:55 PM PST by Congressman Billybob
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A classic and very effective use of "political correctness" was used by the communist husband of Jane Fonda, Tom Hayden. His political group sold socialism to the citizens of Santa Monica, CA, under the guise of "Economic Democracy". The ruse being: Who could be against anything with the word "Democracy" in the definition.

The city still hasn't recovered from the social and economic effects of a completely socialist city government. The only thing that did stop them were the natural laws of economics and the city council was begining to face serious constitutional barriers to their "Proclamations for the peoples good".

17 posted on 12/29/2001 1:33:53 PM PST by elbucko
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The current period in which we live (heightened patriotism) has put THEM on the defensive. We have control and should not shrink from the responsibility. It is time to go on the offensive and the publishing this piece in a college publication is a nice start.

You are right about 9/11 at this time, however they are willing to take a set back and smile because they believe in the mantra "Three steps foward and two back". It took them all of the 60s to get organized and educated and then they started to take over at the Universities and then high schools and then elementary schools. I believe their biggest setback was the McCarthy Hearings and they were able to turn that around and brand it a witch hunt so well that no one will ever question them again in such a fashion.

18 posted on 12/29/2001 1:34:52 PM PST by tubebender
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Fixed link from #16

CBB - Your welcome in advance.

;-)

19 posted on 12/29/2001 1:36:08 PM PST by StriperSniper
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Thanks for posting this! BTTT
20 posted on 12/29/2001 1:36:39 PM PST by firewalk
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