From: harelb@MATH.CORNELL.EDU (misc.activism.progressive co-moderator)
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Subject: The Big Lie (PC)
Date: 31 Aug 92 23:25:29 GMT
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Topic 662       The Big Lie (PC) 
odin    misc.activism.progressive       12:47 pm  Aug 30, 1992 
(at world.std.com)      (From News system) 

POLITICAL CORRECTNESS: What it really means. 

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." 

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.  

They still remember Vietnam and it haunts them when campuses were  
organizing centers for political protest and "breeding grounds of  
subversion." Now with a New World Odor, campuses but most  
particularly the LEFT must be brought firmly into line and one  
way to do it is to label what we say as "politically correct" and  
therefore unacceptable. How utterly absurd. Do you know what PC  
really is: Ed Herman writes in his doublespeak dictionary, it is  
"The callenge of dissidents and minorities to traditionally  
biased usages and curricula, as perceived by the vested interests  
in existing usage and curricula and those seeking a basis for  
attacking the current challengers." Whereas, "really correct,"  
that which is acceptable to the RIGHT is: "The status quo in  
politicized language and curricula; also, whatever line the  
government and establishment wants to take on an issue."  

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.* 

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.  


                        Hank Roth 

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