rumitoid wrote:
The real enemy to the Right is Political Correctness. Why?
Trump tweeting an anti-Semitic Internet meme depicting a Star of David atop a pile of cash in 2016. Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, said any objections or criticism was just “political correctness run amok.” The origins of that meme were discovered to be a message board of neo-N**is and w***e s*********ts who presumably agree with Lewandowski. After all, they titled their message board, “Politically Incorrect.”
Political correctness has been a whipping boy of the right wing for decades, and Trump is cracking the whip with abandon. He told a group of evangelical leaders that they shouldn’t pray for President Obama because “We can’t be… politically correct and say we pray for all of our leaders, because all of your leaders are selling Christianity down the tubes.” (Just an aside: who better to pray for?)
Remember his response to Fox host Megyn Kelly when she asked him about his temperament after calling some women “dogs” and “fat pigs”? It was: “I think the big problem this country has is being politically correct.” After being skewered by all sides for r****t comments about a Hispanic federal judge hearing a case he was involved in, “We have to stop being so politically correct in this country.” He is saying we can freely be r****t and misogynist.
Outright xenophobic, Islamophobic, r****t, and anti-gay rhetoric is encouraged as being just forthright, exalted as a breathe of fresh air by the GOP, not pandering to lily-liveried Liberals so concerned about people's feelings and the effects of words. Sticks and stones may break our bones...but words are far, far worse. Ask anyone alive what cut them to the core and damaged them most, more than any physical harm, were harsh words spoken by a loved one or authority figure.
Apparently, no more need for politicians to speak in too much coded language, designed to cloak their true positions and to avoid offending everyone. Dog-whistles are passe. Say it like it is. Or, call a spade a spade. Make an "open and coarse appeal to the passions of the populace; habitually abandon the principles of political science to assail the characters of individuals.” Now a principle of the Right.
The real enemy to the Right is Political Correctne... (
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Wh**ever people think or believe PC (Political correctness) was created to destroy "Free Speech" which is people rights to express their thought and belief and nothing more.
Without "Free Speech" we are nothing more than a robot controlled by the elites g*******t.