From: adams@spss.com (Steve Adams)
Subject: Re: The Big Lie (PC)
Organization: SPSS Inc.
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 17:45:17 GMT

harelb@MATH.CORNELL.EDU (misc.activism.progressive co-moderator) writes:

>POLITICAL CORRECTNESS: What it really means. 
"War is peace.  Freedom is Slavery.  Ignorance is Strength."

This is exactly the kind of double-speak that is called political
correctness.

>Political Correctness (PC) is the Big Lie campaign. If you are  
>against racism, abortion clinic bombings, union-busting and  
>imperialist war--then maybe you're just too "politically correct"  
>and a dangerous enemy of the state. As ludicrous as it may sign,  
>given the present climate of right-wing triumphalism and  
>some "liberal" collaboration, George Bush railed against a  
>"notion of political correctness" in a speech he gave at the  
>University of Michigan in May, a year ago, and accused the left  
>of conductiong an "inquisition," "censorship" and bullying." He  
>gave the presidential seal of approval to the race-haters and  
>like the Willie Horton propaganda smear campaign, he started this  
>witchhunt against this new bogeyman, "political correctness." 

Not at all.  What is being called "political correctness" is more
comparable to McCartheyism than anything else.  It is labeling and
targeting those who disagree with you as racist, even when they are not.
The fascist left (yes, fascist) is busy trying to FORCE newthink on people
by decrying any difference in opinion as misogyny, racism, sexism, etc,
etc.

>Who are the targets. You and I, and a few professors and courses in  
>Black and women's studies. Grabbing the mantle of free speech to  
>champion the right of punks to hurl words like "nigger" is to  
>profane the purpose and spirit of free speech.  
Not at all.  But alas, that epithet is available to them just as 'racist'
is available to those who follow this newthink.

I guess that because Socrates, Plato, Freud, etc, etc. are white, that
makes them irrelevent?  Is Jesus Christ just another dead white male?

>What these attacks from the Bush camp, petty-bourgeiois students  
>and the fascist far RIGHT are doing is inciting straight-out  
>racist violence with their forcible repression of independent  
>thought and action.....in a LOCK STEP march to total *CONFORMITY.* 
NO!  You have this backwards.  It is the LEFT that is looking for absolute
conformity of ideas.  Your tolerance ends when the values expressed are
those you disagree with...

>The PC hunters rail about constraints on their "free speech",  
>----but consider this: Who owns the country and who owns the  
>media? If they want to yell "nigger" and threaten Jews and Gays,  
>they do so and no one denies that they have that right--but this  
>also makes them enemies of the LEFT and it makes their accusations  
>that anyone is PC who challenges them for their insensitivity and  
>ignorance a ploy by them in effect sustaining their fascist  
>witchhunt.  

The pot calling the kettle black.  Fascists on the left are just as bad as
fascists on the right.  All you statist, elitist, we know better than 
everyone types can go form your own country.  Those of us who are truly
interested in freedom aren't ready to give this one up.

 -Steve
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