
'The Origins of Political Correctness'
Article here. Excerpt:
'Where does all this stuff that you’ve heard about this morning – the victim feminism, the gay rights movement, the invented statistics, the rewritten history, the lies, the demands, all the rest of it – where does it come from? For the first time in our history, Americans have to be fearful of what they say, of what they write, and of what they think. They have to be afraid of using the wrong word, a word denounced as offensive or insensitive, or racist, sexist, or homophobic.
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First of all, both are totalitarian ideologies. The totalitarian nature of Political Correctness is revealed nowhere more clearly than on college campuses, many of which at this point are small ivy covered North Koreas, where the student or faculty member who dares to cross any of the lines set up by the gender feminist or the homosexual-rights activists, or the local black or Hispanic group, or any of the other sainted "victims" groups that PC revolves around, quickly find themselves in judicial trouble. Within the small legal system of the college, they face formal charges – some star-chamber proceeding – and punishment. That is a little look into the future that Political Correctness intends for the nation as a whole.'
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a little too much of a 'conspiracy theory' here
Most people would either blow it off as paranoia, or an agenda of its own by virtue of connecting things where there's not much of a connection - gay rights for example, has little if anything to do with re-written history.
This is where conservative people make the same mistake they always do: they start out with some valid points, but they simply cannot resist the temptation to moralize and politicize an issue.
-ax