Statists use PC to Undermine Liberty

What is Political correctness (PC)? According to Professor Jonathan I. Katz; “Political correctness is the narrowing of the range of acceptable opinions to those held by a small group that enforces it. It is an attempt, often successful, to coerce the majority to accept the opinions of the enforcing group by suppressing any contrary opinion and making independent thought unacceptable. The enforcing group may be afraid of the consequences of open discussion, or of making the facts known. It generally has a practical motivation: it wants something of value (money, jobs, special privileges) to which it has a weak claim. So it attempts to enforce its claim by ruling any disagreement from it outside the bounds of acceptable discourse. This is unnecessary when the claim is self-evidently strong, but may be the only means of getting the claim accepted when it is weak.”

The late Charlton Heston put it more succinctly: “Political correctness is tyranny with manners.” Over 20 years ago, before being totally overtaken with Political Correctness (PC), Newsweek recognized the fact that PC is totalitarian saying in its Dec. 24, 1990 edition, “PC is, strictly speaking, a totalitarian philosophy.” 20 years later Newsweek is now an ironic parody of George Orwell’s “Newspeak” as coined in his famous work, “1984.” The walls of Oceania’s “Ministry of Truth”, headquarters for propaganda and revisionist history, are festooned with three “Newspeak” phrases: War Is Peace, Freedom Is Slavery, Ignorance Is Strength. Today’s PC press work on similar “Newspeak”: Charity Is Entitlement, Envy Is Righteousness. Sin Is Love.

Let’s talk about basic culture. Today’s PC police want us to accept abject falsehoods as fact. The claim that all cultures are equal and that we must embrace diversity simply flies in the face of reality. Western culture based on representative government and liberty has provided most of the worlds progress, food, medicine, technology and the highest quality of life for more people; why is a culture that is ignorant openly oppressive, misogynistic, a culture where punishment for paltry offenses is the amputation of limbs and death is mandated for differing opinions on historic leaders, worthy of equal respect, value, or even tolerated by Western culture?

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