In the universe, where I live, the bloodiest battles over political correctness were fought in the late 80s and early 90s. But just as the Daughters of the Confederacy are still around, the Gender-Neutral Offspring of the Culture Wars will never die, either. And while Conservapedia really hates the ACLU, they won’t recognize the tension between the importance of safeguarding free speech and the need to identify and replace terminology that is dangerous or offensive to certain groups. Oh well. The highlights:
The modern politically correct movement began at the University of Wisconsin
I didn’t know that! And how about:
More specifically, groups which (or whose putative “leaders” or other activists) claim some status as systemically oppressed or discriminated against will periodically attempt to change the terms by which they are referred to and demand that society as a whole change its usage of words as well.
To Conservapedia’s credit, they don’t bitch and moan about how black people are allowed to use the N-word but “we” aren’t. But really, this complaint just laments the annoying right of people not to live under derogatory names other people give them. What a sin!
Since we’ve lived under the People’s Republic of HillaryCare for the last twenty years, readers ought to be reminded that:
The comprehensive and detailed control of all ideas, beliefs, and statements is one of the most problematic features of totalitarian regime.
Also found under the heading of “Totalitarianism and Political Correctness” (an anchronism totes belied by the invention of PC in Wisconsin):
Political correctness can trace its origins back to the world of 1920’s Germany, where Communist academics sought to impose their Marxist views on students. It is now acceptable in many Universities to have courses on gender, homosexual and African American studies, which, in fact, encourage the mainstream public to become different to avoid criticism.
That’s a real dilly of a pickle. Imagine, the acceptability of African American studies. I mean, the gall of learning about black history. By offering courses on a real thing, universities breed fertile conditions for Nazism, just like those Commie-riddled schools of Weimar Germany.
Guilt by association has now been elevated to the art of guilt by non-sequitur. Suck it, Conservapedia.
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