To begin, we need to
understand that political correctness is not about being nice. It’s not simply
a social issue, or a subset of the culture wars.
It’s not about politeness,
or inclusiveness, or good manners. It’s not about being respectful toward your
fellow humans, and it’s not about being sensitive or caring or avoiding hurt
feelings and unpleasant slurs.
But you’ve heard this
argument, I’m sure. PC is about simple respect and inclusiveness, they tell us.
As though we need progressives, the cultural enforcers, to help us understand
that we shouldn’t call someone retarded, or use the “N” word, make hurtful
comments about someone’s appearance, or tolerate bullies.
If PC truly was about
kindness and respect, it wouldn’t need to be imposed on us. After all, we
already have a mechanism for the social cohesion PC is said to represent: it’s
called manners. And we already have specific individuals charged with insuring
that good manners are instilled and upheld: they’re called parents……..
But what exactly is PC? Let me take a stab at defining it: Political
correctness is the conscious, designed manipulation of language intended to
change the way people speak, write, think, feel, and act, in furtherance of an
agenda.
PC is best understood as propaganda, which is how I suggest we approach
it. But unlike propaganda, which historically has been used by governments to
win favor for a particular campaign or effort, PC is all-encompassing. It seeks
nothing less than to mold us into modern versions of Marx’s un-alienated
society man, freed of all his bourgeois pretensions and humdrum social conventions.
Like all propaganda, PC fundamentally is a lie. It is about refusing to
deal with the underlying nature of reality, in fact attempting to alter that
reality by legislative and social fiat. A is no longer A.
To quote Hans-Hermann Hoppe:
[T]he masters … stipulate
that aggression, invasion, murder and war are actually self-defense, whereas
self-defense is aggression, invasion, murder and war. Freedom is coercion, and
coercion is freedom. … Taxes are voluntary payments, and voluntarily paid
prices are exploitative taxes. In a PC world, metaphysics is diverted and
rerouted. Truth becomes malleable, to serve a bigger purpose determined by our
superiors….
Read the rest at: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/12/jeff-deist/pc-commie/
