We, Americans, fought a war against colonial oppression in giving birth to our nation. We fought that war to ensure and protect our God-given freedoms. Freedom of speech and the freedom to practice our various religious faiths are the very first of those freedoms. There hasn’t been a war to take those freedoms away from us but they are, nonetheless, being taken away from us. The social movement called political correctness or ‘PC’ is destroying our right to freely practice our religious values and our right of freedom of speech just as surely as any conquering enemy. Every Soldier, Sailor, Airmen and Marine takes the same oath as our elected officials to protect and defend our constitution against ALL enemies both foreign and domestic. What threatens to destroy our freedoms is our enemy…period. Political correctness is an enemy of freedom. It has served only to harm our society. It is psychologically dangerous and clothed in dishonesty.
To grow as individuals, and as a society, we need to be honest with ourselves and with each other. All we do otherwise is repress any real feelings until the day they blow up in our faces. Politically correct behavior is dishonest behavior. It is not diplomacy or common courtesy as some may claim. It is hypocrisy plain and simple. It is ‘politically incorrect’ to point out any shortcomings or faults in those groups who feel they need such protection. One dare not point out any unflattering fact about a minority for example. That would cast them in a bad light and they can’t have that! What’s worse is that an honest comment can label the person making it a racist, a sexist, a homophobe or any number of other slurs. What the PC types hope to accomplish with this ridiculous standard of ‘correct’ behavior is nothing less than a revision of history. To rewrite history to suit some current political trend is a tactic commonly used by totalitarian governments to shore up their own agendas. That is exactly what the PC movement is, a subtle form of totalitarianism. They want to control our thoughts!
Not everyone is equally protected under the umbrella of political correctness strangely enough. If you are a straight, white, English speaking, male you’re fair game for any derogatory slander. The same has become true for Christians. In our own American press it has become commonplace to insult Christians, they are considered fair game and no political correctness is necessary. But the same people dare not say anything against Islam…that might offend Muslims! The Hollywood elite frequently joins in insulting Christians and treating Muslims with kit gloves. Rosie O’Donnell said some time ago that radical Christians were ‘just as dangerous’ as radical Muslims! To label some of the most decent, generous people in the history of the world ‘just as bad’ as the terrorists trying to destroy us is ludicrous! How IDOITIC can a person be?
Even the Pope, it turns out, is supposed to be PC. In the news some months ago he made some comments, taken out of context, by some Muslims and many of them went up in arms. The Popes comments seemed to indicate the Muslims were associated with violence. Those who took offense obviously didn’t listen to the whole speech…or it’s intent. They simply deemed it offensive to mention Islam and violence in the same speech. So what did some of the Muslims who took offense do? They reacted violently against churches and murdered a nun in response! Surely the irony of all of this isn’t lost on anyone of reasonable intelligence?
What the Pope should have said is: “Yes, Muslim history is a history of violence and a good deal of the faithful are hateful warmongers. The bloody history of Islam is a matter of record for anyone who cares to research it.” Instead he apologizes, after a fashion, …his words chosen carefully of course. Political correctness demanded it after all!
Where was the Muslim outrage when the head of state in Iran said that Israel should be wiped out? Where was Muslim outrage when any of the THOUSANDS of innocent people were murdered in the dozens of terrorist attacks in the last few years? The answer is NO major Muslim group has expressed any outrage. That’s because most of those attacks were against white, Christians and Jews. The ‘politically correct’ apologized to their Muslim attackers for not understanding their pain. Some of them even went on to blame the victims!
The truth is, and this will be politically incorrect, the Muslims that liberals fight so hard to protect would cut the throats of those infidels given the opportunity.
Politically correct liberals tell us that racial profiling isn’t PC even though it is Arab Muslims that have declared war against us. It isn’t PC to declare that America is different than the rest of the countries on earth because we have historically fought for what is fair and right. (We even fought for Muslims in North Africa during WWII, in the former Yugoslavia, and to free Muslims in Iraq.)
Our Political Correctness has done nothing but embolden our enemies. The world is coming closer everyday to annihilating itself because good men have become afraid to take a stand!
The rule of the PC seems to be that who ever whines the loudest gets the attention. Conservatives don’t whine because they believe in personal responsibility and maturity. That leaves the most liberal among us doing most of the whining. They want a ‘Mommy’ state wherein the federal government does everything for everyone. Mature people don’t want that. It is an abdication of maturity and personal responsibility.
Political Correctness is a liberal practice because they want to feel warm and fuzzy. They don’t want to think or be confronted with the facts because they have made their minds up already, to the extent that they use their minds and not just their feelings. Most of us have to live in the real world.
The federal government can’t change the hearts and minds of people! What changes peoples perceptions is a change in behavior by the irresponsible and immature to begin acting like adults. Practicing honesty instead of political correctness will begin a real dialogue and start to make real changes in our society instead of the phony, superficial changes that make us feel good…
