From: john@anasazi.com (John R. Moore)
Subject: Re: The Big Lie (PC)
Reply-To: john@anasazi.com
Organization: Anasazi Inc, Phoenix AZ USA
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 21:16:42 GMT

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In article <Btt2tw.Et7@world.std.com> odin@world.std.com (Hank Roth) writes:
]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, 
Ludicrous is the right word for this stuff.

]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. 

In other words, he is right. You approve of censorship if it prevents
one from "hurling" words like "nigger."

]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." 
Doublespeak dictionary indeed! 

Politically Correct, as practiced, is a set of vocabularies, subjects and 
attitudes that are considered "correct," and disagreement with which is 
considered "racist, capitalist or oppressive." 

Political correct is to label all beliefs and behavior with which you disagree 
to be an "-ism," and then to be against those "-isms." 

It is to be so self righteous as to believe that those isms should be rudely 
and crudely stamped out, by shouting down speakers, harrassing students who 
are not PC, and passing anti-freedom laws or regulations such as hate-speech
rules. 

To be PC is to have no sense of humour - this stuff is too
serious, and PC'ers too righteous, to be able to laugh about it.

To be PC is to view all people by whatever category you can lump
them into rather than as individuals, and to force this into law,
even if it means engaging in racism.  Thus, I am not John, the individual,
I am John, the:
  -white
  -male
  -fascist (ie, conservative)
  -oppressor

To be PC is;
  -to view male as inherently bad
  -to view white people as oppressors
  -to view profit as evil; 
  -to view businessmen as greedy and mean; 
  -to view the poor, native americans, and any other "oppressed" people as 
   noble; 
  -to view poverty and oppression as the causes for all evil behavior
   by "oppressed" people;
  -to view the police as vicious brute; 
  -to view morals as means of oppression;
  -to view western religions as evil;
  -to label anti-PC people as "fascists" without the faintest understanding
   of what "fascism" is
  -to constantly change what words and spelling is correct, so that
   those who are the most PC can be identified and adored: to 
   spell Blacks as Blaks (of course, this may be out of date by now);
   to spell women as "womyn".
  -to be an intellectually vacuous, ivory tower fool, as demonstrated
   by the posting that this is responding too.
]
]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.*

snicker. PC folks are the conformists. 

]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. 
Huh?


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