Mary,
Give me 2 or 3 examples of what you belieive are valid ideas where the "Politically Correct" are shutting down open discussion.
1. You can't tell jokes in this country anymore, officially forbidden by laws, rules, offenders to be punished by loss of jobs, expelled from schools, stripped of academic tenure etc.
In years of Communist oppression, there was one thing that sustained the silent resistance of the population to the mass indoctrination, and it was telling of jokes. To the credit of Communists, they did not officially the laws banning jokes, like the Storm Troopers of Political Correctness.
2. inventing "sacred cows". In Soviet Union, these were the landless peasants and workers. In the US, these are minorities of all kinds - racial, ethnic, based of sexual behaviour, gender. Any information that may in any way negatively reflect on any of these sacred cows is to be suppressed, anyone who would dare to present the information is to be intimidated (plus all the other consequences outlined in 1.). Any information that may positively reflect on the sacred cows is to be indoctrinated into the heads of children from cradle to grave.
3. Any person who dares to venture out of the very narrow world view of Political correctness is to be intimidated into silence. The best tools is to label any opponent racist, sexist, homophobe, you name it, to put the person on the defensive, so that he can's speak, explain himself, instead, the person is expected to demonstrate that he is not a racist, sexist etc, before preceding. Just watch the tactics of the Storm Troopers on this thread.
Joe |
