The 'Political Correctness'
Movement and
other socialist indicators in America
| "The most effective way of making
people accept the validity of the values they are to serve is to persuade them that
they are really the same as those which they … have always held, but which were not
properly understood or recognized before. "And the most efficient technique to this end is to use the old words but change their meaning. "Few traits of totalitarian regimes are at the
same time so confusing to the superficial observer and yet so characteristic of the whole
intellectual climate as the complete perversion of language,
the change of meaning of the words by which the ideals of the new regimes are
expressed." |
| "Our cult of correctness not only
is highly selective in its choice of targets; it's also nothing but cowardice dressed up
as good manners — an attempt to silence important ideas, rather than taking the time
to grapple with them." — Tony Snow |
| "Americans need to be especially
on guard against moves against free speech and their right to keep and bear arms. The
purpose of passing hate-crime legislation is simply to lay the predicate for passing
hate-speech laws. ...Freedom and compulsion are contradictions. ...What the present
generation must do is guard against the growing trend toward more authoritarian
government. Government is never static. Its tendency is always to move toward more power
that means less freedom. But to do that, the present generation must have more faith in
itself than it does in government. You can't have a free society unless you trust the
people." — Charley Reese |
| "I'm all for symbolism. I love
symbolism. But I love truth more. And the problem with changing the races of the men who
were photographed raising the flag [at the World Trade Center] is that it's not true. It's not factual. It didn't
happen that way. Why does it matter? It matters because truth always matters. In fact,
it's all that matters.... Once you start slicing and dicing truth, there's no end to it.
And once you become comfortable with little adjustments to truth, a tweak here and a tweak
there, you begin not to notice when truth disappears altogether. Where truth is absent,
tyranny reigns. Such, ultimately, is the loathsome promise of political correctness. But
it's only a statue, you say, just a little thing no worse than a white lie (pardon the
exclusion). If it makes people feel better, what's the harm? It's not the symbol, darling.
It's what the symbol stands for, which isn't truth. If not truth, then what if not a
lie?" — Kathleen Parker |
| "The First Amendment
says nothing about a right not to be offended. The risk of finding someone
else's speech offensive is the price each of us pays for our own free
speech. Free people don't run to court – or to the principal – when they
encounter a message they don't like. They answer it with one of their own."
— Jeff Jacoby |
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The Origins of Political
Correctness Bill Lind Political correctness isn't funny. It's here, it's growing and it will eventually destroy, as it seeks to destroy, everything that we have ever defined as our freedom and our culture. |
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