Alternative Lifestyles, Sheilas, and Native Americans

Homosexuals, girls, and Indians… believe it or not, "sexual orientation" wasn't a phrase dreamt up by a homosexual, and it was not women or Native Americans that suddenly found Sheila and Indian offensive. This "enshrining of slogans" to bolster a belief in the absurd is a product of white liberals (see Thomas Sowell's Black Rednecks and White Liberals). As a friend reminded me, I don't really have much of a readership yet (I'm optimistic), but I would still encourage you to check out the documentary mentioned next.

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Most of the people I know eschew political correctness… it winds up being the butt of jokes, not taken seriously by many – while away from work. I've listened to professional politicos make fun of the very thing they kowtow to in public. Dr. Helen provided a great link to a new documentary @ Indoctrinate U and the trailer actually made me want to see a documentary! I avoided Moore's cheap trash precisely because it came across that way – as cheap trash; however, a moonbat buddy bought it, we watched it, and yes, it was cheap trash.

It seems doc Helen believes only the exalted liberal left deserves freedom of speech, i.e., those who "toe the line of liberal dogma" (tongue in cheek sarcasm, I'm sure J)! On the other hand, evaluating just how poisonous political correctness can be is worth the effort, if for no other reason than pretending one believes in a free market place of ideas.

Philip Atkinson rightly defines political correctness with the words "communal tyranny" and proceeds to provide a definition, description, history and impact of this noxious phenomenon. Though Atkinson seems a little keen on himself sometimes, his commentary on Political Correctness is worth the read… just to get little gems like this:

Clear Inspiration for Political Correctness

The declared rational of this tyranny is to prevent people being offended; to compel everyone to avoid using words or behaviour that may upset homosexuals, women, non-whites, the crippled, the mentally impaired, the fat or the ugly. This reveals not only its absurdity but its inspiration. The set of values that are detested are those held by the previous generation (those who fought the Second World War), which is why the terms niggers, coons, dagos, wogs, poofs, spastics and sheilas, have become heresy, for, in an act of infantile rebellion, their subject have become revered by the new generation. Political Correctness is merely the resentment of spoilt children directed against their parent's values.