No doubt some of you already know and understand P.C. pretty well. But, regardless, a good solid, well-composed primer never hurts. So heres mine.
P.C. is a totalitarian, anti-American, anti-First Amendment imposition of a speech (and presumably thought) code upon people, with the express purpose of intimidating them into silence. It is a creation of certain political groups and powers, designed to stigmatize people who hold viewpoints that conflict with those currently in vogue and favor. If you hold any position that is deemed politically incorrect, you can be fired from your job, kicked out of a club or group, or even expelled from a college.
We are not talking about racial or ethnic slurs here; those are obviously ugly and have no business being uttered in civilized society. What we are talking about are opinions, ideas, and/or political beliefs or positions about a variety of topics. Some groups and positions are considered good or correct while others are considered bad or incorrect. Look out if your views are considered bad or incorrect. The media, some powerful politicians, public opinion, and various favored groups dictate who is P.C. and who is not P.C..
If this all sounds very mysterious, vague and difficult to understand, thats because it is. How such ostracizing, stigmatizing, and judging of ones rightness or wrongness can happen in America is a testament to how far our freedoms have eroded from the days of the Founding Fathers, who warned of such encroachments upon our basic civil liberties in many historic documents, such as the Constitution of the United States of America and the Federalist Papers. Various factions, backed by bands of litigious attorneysmost notably, the ACLUnow browbeat dissenters into submission through threats of lawsuits based on the flimsiest, most pathetic reasons, including you offended me, so Im going to sue you, or fire you, or both.
The War on Facts is related to P.C. because basic facts no longer matter in many of todays most important issues. What matters more are your feelings and visions and beliefs about subjects, regardless whether such feelings, visions and beliefs can be supported by cold hard facts. Thats my opinion and Im entitled to my opinion is the comeback mantra of those who usually cannot support their opinions with facts.
The P.C. crowd loves and even worships opinions and feelings over factsfor they often base their personal and political decisions upon them. If they feel you have offended them, for instance, then it doesnt matter one bit that what you said is a concrete fact. If the fact itself is offensive, insensitive (thats another favorite feeling of theirs), or otherwise distasteful, never mind that it is demonstrably accurate and true, you are judged politically incorrect and subject to their condemning wrath. Facts just do not matter if those facts get in the way of their political or social engineering goals.
In fact, the P.C. crowd hates certain facts because those facts disprove their theories and contradict their overarching objectives to remake the world in their utopian image. The reverse is also true: the P.C. crowd often makes up stories, perpetrates hoaxes, and tells absolute lies to support their points. When their lies are exposed, their common response is that it doesnt matter if what I said is true or not, its what I feel (or believe, or sense, or predict, etc).
Again, I know the preceding facts may seem, to some of you, too bizarre to be true, but they are. I have seen many examples in my life of this outright deception and mendacity by the P.C. crowd. Just one example is this: a noted feminist who earns $5000-10,000 per lecture on college campuses, tells her adoring audiences this disgusting untruth: All men are rapists. That is the thesis of her speech to her largely feminist audiences. When told that such a statement is a lie, she says it doesnt matter if its not actually true. What matters is that all men would be rapists, could be rapists, might be rapists, or dont care about women being raped, and a variety of other rationalizing statements that fail to adequately change the fact that she calls all menall menrapists. The fact that all men are NOT rapists does not matter to her or her audience. The only thing that matters is her sick, twisted opinion of men in general.
We simply cannot allow the media, various groups, attorneys, politicians, and the overall climate of intimidation and fear to silence us when we disagree with a position and/or wish to state facts that others may find unpleasant, offensive or otherwise politically incorrect. Not all facts are created equal, but there do exist some concrete, indisputable facts about just about any issue or subject. Its a portentous and potentially apocalyptic development for civilization as we know it when the factualness of concrete facts can be brazenly decried or even denied, while bald-faced lies can be thrown in our faces and declared to be facts.
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