[Cold Heat]

My opinion is that we should stop protesting every 'little' thing and narrow our vision to the cause of all of these 'little' restrictions,

I agree wholeheartedly!

Is the U.N. the cause of this type of thinking? Or is it a product resulting from it? This is my question.(which came first, the chicken or the egg?)

In my view, the thinking came first. We flippantly call it political correctness. Actually, it is neither political nor correct.

I have watched it grow and prosper. It started in the racial equality movement when the utterance of words became major racial issues. It then spead to the media where the common names of countries and cities were changed to a more generic name to prevent insulting other countries. The use of the term "foreign", was even prohibited. Then came the names of sports organizations like the "tomahawks" and now the "redskins". The awful offensive names.

Now in the name of kindness we remove words, change words, and ban songs, poems, and anything that could remotely be offensive to someone, somewhere, or somehow.

The U.N. did not do this, but the people who serve in the U.N. do think like this.

I believe it was a product of the end of the cold war and a general feeling by the social engineers that now is the time to correct all this bad kharma. The freaks who errantly believe that we must all love one another now, and everything will be ok. The greedy trial lawyers saw it as a whole new cash flow opportunity and the spineless polititian did not stand in the way of a purely emotional arguement to do the "right" things in the name of the "children".

These folks have way too much time on their hands IMHO!

[jadimov]

...In my view, the thinking came first. We flippantly call it political correctness. Actually, it is neither political nor correct.....I have watched it grow and prosper. It started in the racial equality movement when the utterance of words became major racial issues. It then spead to the media where the common names of countries and cities were changed to a more generic name to prevent insulting other countries. The use of the term "foreign", was even prohibited. Then came the names of sports organizations like the "tomahawks" and now the "redskins". The awful offensive names.....Now in the name of kindness we remove words, change words, and ban songs, poems, and anything that could remotely be offensive to someone, somewhere, or somehow...

Big Brother's Ingsoc Party (English Socialism) has perfected the uses of high technology to monitor the lives of its populace, and to insure unswerving loyalty through surveillance, propaganda and brainwashing. The government's most brilliant and most appalling project is the actual deconstruction of the English language into Newspeak, the language of the Party. Each successive edition of the Newspeak Dictionary has fewer words than its predecessor. By removing meaning and nuance from the vocabulary, the government hopes to eradicate seditious and anti-social thinking before it even has the chance to enter a person's mind. Without the vocabulary for revolution, there can be no revolution. For those who persist in thinking for themselves, so-called Thought Criminals, Ingsoc's stormtroopers, the Thought Police, are there to intervene, incarcerating the free-thinkers in the Ministry of Love, where they will be re-educated, or worse. 1984