From: J056600@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM
Subject: Re: The Big Lie (PC)
Organization: Lockheed Missiles & Space Company, Inc.
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 15:03:45 GMT

In <Btt2tw.Et7@world.std.com>, Hank Roth writes:

>>POLITICAL CORRECTNESS: What it really means.

POLITICAL CORRECTNESS:  What a brainwashed leftist thinks it 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"

Wrong.  That just makes you *liberal*.  You're not "politically correct"
unless you try to employ the same Nazi-like tactics you described.  And
certainly you're not saying that the above behavior is standard for the
conservatives, are you?  There are loonies from both sides.  People who are
*not* PC can usually acknowledge that, whether on the left or the right.

>>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."

For the millionth time, Willie Horton was discovered by THE AL GORE
CAMPAIGN in 1988!!!!  Why isn't it *ever* racism when a Democrat is involved,
Hank?  For crying out loud!  Check the facts.  If you still blame Horton on
the GOP, then your heart ISN'T in the right place--it's in blind adherance to
a party/ideology without regard for the truth!  The Horton ad only aired (I
think) twice, on local television.  That hardly influenced the election.  Did
the ads ever mention Horton's race?  Huh?  Huh?

>>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.

And I, as an American Indian, have to put up with all of these bleeding-heart
liberals who claim to speak for me.  No, thanks.  I can help myself.  Some
racists here would assume by my name that I'm a European-American (hey, if
everyone else can hyphenate their "Americanism," why can't they?), but they
would be wrong.

   (gobbledygook deleted)

>>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.*

Wrong party, Hank.  The *Democrats* were the party forcing conformity by
refusing to let Pro-Life governor Casey speak at their convention.  Didn't you
see Bill Weld or Lynn Martin speaking for the GOP?  They are pro-choice, and
there was no attempt to silence them.  Oh, and racist violence?  You mean like
what happened to Reginald Denny?  You can't bring up Rodney King without also
mentioning Denny.  If racism is wrong, then it's *always* wrong.  People who
try to legitimize the beating of Denny make me sick, just like the cops who
beat King made me sick.  And Denny wasn't breaking any laws, either.

>>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.

Yes, they may have a *right* to do that evil stuff, but we also have a *right*
(some would even say *duty*) to expose them and trash their opinions.  The
difference between PC and liberalism is that true liberals will tolerate all
expression, even if they disapprove.  A PCer will try to have someone they
disagree with fired, expelled, or disenfranchised.  HUGE difference.  If a
business owner is exercising his (I won't say his/her, since ALL bigots MUST
by PC definition be male) right to be bigoted, then you have an equal right to
not patronize him and convince others not to as well.  That's it.  And keep
the government out of it.

>>////------------------------------------------------------------/////
>>** Peace & Justice **  ** People Before Profits ** ** End Racism **
>>////------------------------------------------------------------///

Isn't that sweet?  Oh, and racism is a two-way street.  For a David Duke, there
is an Al Sharpton.  For a Tom Metzger there is a Sister Souljah.  It's either
always wrong or never wrong.  Applying selective criteria to determine what is
racist is pure hypocrisy.  I happen to think that it's always evil, regardless
of who is the victim and who is the perpetrator.


Tim Irvin   j056600@lmsc5.is.lmsc.lockheed.com
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"In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that
 for religious rights." -- James Madison, Federalist Paper #51