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“Newspeak is a controlled language created by the totalitarian state as a tool to limit free thought, and concepts that pose a threat to the regime such as freedom, self-expression, individuality, peace, etc. Any form of thought alternative to the party’s construct is classified as ‘thoughtcrime.’”
Political correctness is a term that refers to language, ideas, or policies that address perceived or actual discrimination against or alienation of politically, socially or economically disadvantaged groups. The term usually implies that these social considerations are excessive or of a purely "political" nature. These groups most prominently include those defined by gender, race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation and disability.
Historically, the term was a colloquialism used in the early-to-mid 20th century by Communists and Socialists in political debates, referring pejoratively to the Communist "party line", which provided for "correct" positions on many matters of politics.
Babette Gross, wife of KGB agent Willi Muenzenberg, explained the content of the Soviet payload...: You claim to be an independent-minded idealist. You don’t really understand politics, but you think the little guy is getting a lousy break. You believe in open-mindedness. You are shocked, frightened by what is going on right here in our own country. You’re frightened by the racism, by the oppression of the workingman. You think the Russians are trying a great human experiment,and you hope it works. You believe in peace. You yearn for international understanding. You hate fascism. You think the capitalist system is corrupt.
Did you know that "gender-neutral" restrooms are popping up around the world as not to "discriminate" against the transgendered? You wonder how women will feel sharing the restrooms with men or whether they might be afraid of that. But women are not being asked whether they felt "discriminated" by separate restrooms.
. I believe that PC has secret origins and was developed in the 1920s by the Cheka (predecessor of the Soviet KGB) specifically to undermine The United States of America.
PC is a Soviet mind-virus that has undermined Americas leading role as well as muddied its Politics (both Democrat and Republican).
You begin to understand why "progressive" groups chant "Free Palestine" but never "Free Tibet" (because Communists rule there).
Why Obama is an example of Black Empowerment but never Colin Powell. Why ultra-conservative muslims are preferred over mildly-conservative Americans. Why racism, sexism and capitalism are fought almost exclusively in America, but not in other countries. You see, the goal of Soviet-KGB-installed "Progressivism" and "PC Culture" was not REALLY to battle racism, sexism and capitalism. Otherwise they`d have first battled sexism in Africa, battled racism in India, battled Capitalism in Western Europe.
Criticism of Pedophilia, criticism of the Taliban and a number of other criticisms are by some considered a discrimination offense. There is no violence or bullying involved here, mere criticism is an offense.
You see, the PC-thought-police was devised not as anti-Religion but merely anti-Christian because Christianity was associated with America, and America was the enemy.
beezzer
"That offends me."
The phrase, "That offends me", is at the heart of the matter. Isn't it?
Is PC designed to protect those that are offended?
Since when did being offended constitute victimhood?
Skyfloating
A Few Examples of Political Correctness and "Thoughtcrime"
What was originally purported to be about "equality" is slowly but surely becoming something much more insidious:
Not employing criminals is here considered a racist offense. Of course the "racism" is merely assumed, not proven. Most likely the employer just does not want to hire people who have an arrest record. Under PC-pressure he is prevented from running his company the way he deems appropriate.
Criticism of Pedophilia, criticism of the Taliban and a number of other criticisms are by some considered a discrimination offense. There is no violence or bullying involved here, mere criticism is an offense. This is why a police officer who called Trayvvon Martin "a thug" got fired. You are not allowed to think that. While I dont personally think Trayvvon Martin was a thug, a free country would easily grant someone the right to think that. A totalitarian-state wouldnt. This is why it is in some places forbidden to mock Obama with an Obama Mask , even though the Mask-Tradition was carried out with every President before him. PC-Culture is mostly young and gullible ("useful idiots") and probably has no memory of similar masks for George Bush, Clinton, Reagan, etc. The totalitarian PC-view does not understand Humor and is VERY easily offended.
All over America first and now the whole world, things are being "renamed" as not to "offend" anyone. So why arent the Holidays of other Religions attacked by the PC-Brigade? Isnt that odd? When you know the secret origins of PC, the answer is simple: Because those Religions were not on the original enemies-list as created by the Soviets. A school in Seattle renamed Easter Eggs "Spring spheres" as not to offend people who dont celebrate Easter. Schools across Europe banned crosses from classrooms as they could offend non-Christians. At the same time they started building prayer-rooms for Muslims in schools as not to offend them. You see, the PC-thought-police was devised not as anti-Religion but merely anti-Christian because Christianity was associated with America, and America was the enemy.
PC-Cultures aim was to turn the populace into a bunch of hyper-sensitive and emotionally unstable wimps: Instead of calling waiters simply waiters, they now in some parts need to be called "wait persons" as "waiter" is supposedly "discrimination" against women. Parrots of PC actually believe that when I say "Hello Waiter" my intent is to demean and humiliate women rather than simply order a meal.
A UK Council banned the word "brainstorming" after complaints that it offended epileptics. A UK job center banned job adverts using words such as "reliable" and "hard working" because it "discriminated" against lazy people. A shopping mall Santa Claus was banned from saying "Ho, Ho, Ho" because it could be offensive to women.
I could fill several volumes with examples of things one is not allowed to say. Anyone could be offended by anything, so people walk around on eggshells and have trouble joking or relating too each other because they are constantly second guessing what they are allowed to say. "I am an American....ooops...Im sorry, thats offensive to Canadians and South Americans who are also included and I dont mean to diminish their status as Americans". Being super-sensitive is actually a sign of being mentally ill. Only dictators would want to control what someone else is allowed to think and get a fit of rage at the slightest word that might "diminish" them. It used to be that we could only be punished for our ACTIONS, but today we can also be punished for our thoughts and expressed thoughts (words). And more and more, the emotionally disturbed hyper-sensitives are running our Universtities, Schools, our Movie Industries and our Governments.
If current trends continue, not only will we have the 24/7 surveillance (NSA, Internet, Flying Surveillance Drones, etc.) of a totalitarian state, but also the total thought-control of one. It starts out with thought-control on subjects most of us can agree with. Nobody wants to hear racial slurs, homophobic insults and hate-speech, so we accept them being outlawed. But that's a slippery slope, because it means that thought/speech AS SUCH can be outlawed. And as the above examples show, its already gone way beyond just outlawing hate-speech. Everything you say you can now be fined or put out of Business for.
Says Wikipedia (a medium which is itself full of editors who are heavily into evasive PC-Newsspeak at times):
Political correctness is a term that refers to language, ideas, or policies that address perceived or actual discrimination against or alienation of politically, socially or economically disadvantaged groups. The term usually implies that these social considerations are excessive or of a purely "political" nature. These groups most prominently include those defined by gender, race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation and disability.
Historically, the term was a colloquialism used in the early-to-mid 20th century by Communists and Socialists in political debates, referring pejoratively to the Communist "party line", which provided for "correct" positions on many matters of politics.
The whole idea behind all this is of course the original marxist creed that the "disadvantaged" should rise up and take the power away from the "priveleged". From this "poor me" perspective, women, blacks, workers and poor people were seen as "victims" and whites, males, capitalists and rich people as "perpetrators". This is why you will hardly see any political correctness requests regarding those social groups. You`ll notice PC-Robots get very confused at rich blacks, homosexual conservatives, disabled capitalists, rich women and other citizens who do not fit the idiotic soviet-implanted stereotypes of "minority groups".
Image: Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin...the architects of PC.
theantediluvian
On the one hand you're saying "political correctness" is an American phenomena created by the KGB but you point to an example from Scandinavia? So is the KGB also responsible for gender neutral restrooms in Scandanavia?
hounddoghowlie
well the kgb may have started it.
but russia sure as hell doesn't believe in political correctness now. i could point to different things, but i won't, just a couple of links.
seems that turning from communism has made them a bunch of bigoted pigs.