There is an all-pervading problem going unnoticed by many in the United States. Although wasteful spending, big government policies, and corruption have exhausted and equally crippled our economy, this problem poses a greater threat to our livelihood. That problem is political correctness.
A recent Rasmussen Report poll revealed that 79 percent of Americans think political correctness is problematic in America.
What is political correctness, and who is responsible for it?
It is important to note that political correctness derives from Cultural Marxism. This connection is expounded below:
If we look at it analytically, if we look at it historically, we quickly find out exactly what it is. Political Correctness is cultural Marxism. It is Marxism translated from economic into cultural terms. It is an effort that goes back not to the 1960s and the hippies and the peace movement, but back to World War I.
Bill Lind of Accuracy in Academia attributes Cultural Marxism to the Frankfurt School in Germany.
In 1923, the Frankfurt School—best known as the Institute for Social Research—was established with the task of translating Marxist economic theory into Marxism cultural theory. When Nazis took control in Germany, members of the Frankfurt School relocated to the United States in 1933 and found their way into American universities.
Their work also gave rise to Critical Theory, which is “essentially destructive criticism of the main elements of Western culture, including Christianity, capitalism, authority, the family, patriarchy, hierarchy, morality, tradition, sexual restraint, loyalty, patriotism, nationalism, heredity, ethnocentrism, convention and conservatism.”
Additionally, one prominent Frankfurt School member, Herbert Marcuse, helped to champion Critical Theory so as to cripple free speech. Bill Lind also wrote, “Marcuse defines ‘liberating tolerance’ as intolerance for anything coming from the Right and tolerance for anything coming from the Left.”
From these findings, it is important to note how political correctness pervades everyday life.
Main Street at Christmas, Stein am Rhein (Image: Stein am Rhein file)
Cultural Marxists have waged a war on holidays, word choice, free speech, religion, and a whole host of other facets in American society.
Below are modern-day examples of political correctness:
Terrorists are now enemy combatants.
Christmas trees shall be labeled holiday trees, while Easter eggs shall be labeled Spring spheres.
Criticizing President Obama’s agenda is racism, not dissent from his belief system.
Quotas, not merit, shall be the chief determining factor of one’s entry into university.
Denounce the American flag and heritage, yet grant preferential treatment to other national anthems and cultures.
Embrace gender-neutral terms.
Demonize Christianity and Judaism, but give a pass to radical Islam.
Everybody wins a trophy. There are no winners and losers. Competition is offensive and mean-spirited.
Being pro-traditional marriage, pro-life, and pro-gun makes one homophobic, anti-woman, and dangerous, respectively.
Blacks, Asians, women, gays, Hispanics, and other “minorities” that stray from the Democratic Party are lesser human beings.
The list goes on and on.
As more Americans grow impregnated by fear of their own shadows, it should be duly noted that political correctness abridges one’s liberties and freedoms. Leftists—most pointedly, their Cultural Marxist peers—want Americans to live in a constant state of fear. If one does or says something that does not fall in line with political correctness, he or she will be ostracized and demonized.
Freedom is sacred, and the United States cannot not breed an environment that aids and abets political correctness.
Communists in the former Soviet Union, China, Vietnam, Baltic Republics, Cuba, and other formerly (or currently) oppressed nations, perpetuated fear and political correctness. They suppressed dissent and differing opinions through punishment, imprisonment in gulags, or death.
Cultural Marxism affected my family back in the former Soviet Union. My mother could not openly practice her Catholic faith, while my dad faced institutionalized anti-Semitism. Moreover, my grandfather was sent to a Russian gulag for 18 months because he wanted to practice his faith and hold private property. There, he nearly starved to death and was tortured. Many others faced similar, if not worse, circumstances back there.
It is undeniable that Cultural Marxists have placed Americans in a psychological gulag: one that leaves them mentally hopeless, uninspired, talentless, afraid, and weak to live like normal human beings. As a result, Americans cannot fall prey to political correctness given its totalitarian nature.
Regardless of party affiliation, skin color, or disposition, it is imperative to stand up to political correctness and demand a return to normalcy.
“Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.” -Ronald Reagan
Gabriella Hoffman is a senior at UC-San Diego who balances life as a student with life as a conservative activist. She’s majoring in Political Science and minoring in History. She serves as the Executive Assistant on The Rick Amato Show, and produces the “Top Young Con of the Week” segment each Monday.
Gabriella maintains her own blog at www.thegabriellahoffman.com. She is a regular contributor and staff member of UC-San Diego’s conservative paper, The California Review. She also serves as the Director of College outreach for Eagle Forum of San Diego.
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Wonderful article!!
I hereby officially proclaim that we all should be dropouts from the School of Political Correctness!! I for one failed all the coursework.
MERRY CHRISTMAS a little early.
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You just want to be allowed to call brown people niggers with impunity don’t you?
How did you know?!
And we would’ve gotten away with it too if it weren’t for those meddling Liberals!
GAH! He jumped right out and caught us red handed! Pack it up folks, looks like Dave is on watch and he knows exactly how we do!
a few responses to you’re shit-ass list:
1. enemy combatant’s modern usage originated in the bush administration so that they could fuck over a prisoner of war’s basic human rights.
2. haha what are you fucking talking about, christmas trees? eggs? both are originally pagan symbols
3. obama is a crook like every politician.
4. hahah i’m pretty sure colleges and universities still look for people who are smart enough to get in, not just some fagass white boy with money.
5. I don’t even know what you’re talking about.
6. You don’t even know what you’re talking about
7. All three of those western religions are equally shitty.
8. Are you ten?
9. The first two are true, the third one not so much.
10. What does that even mean?
11. I think you’re lying.
i misspelled your i am so sorry, i must seem like an uneducated bum.
I read this and pictured a crack addicted hyper dude banging this out on his keyboard between fidgeting, scratching his neck, and talking to himself. That is seriously the visual I got from this reply.
meth is so much better you should give it a try, you’ll fuck for days.
meth..whoever, whatever…Thank you for proving you cannot fix stupid.
Great article guys!
do you even know what the statue of liberty stands for you swine?
Good article, you’re pretty smart for a nigger.
woman is the nigger of the world after all
whether it’s ‘terrorist’ ‘Enemy combatant’ or ‘insurgent’… It doesn’t matter, they’re all just words we use to feel better when a patrol guns down a village. I have a buddy overseas and he told me all about ‘drop’ knives. Basically, we’re waging war just as dirty and corruptly as humanity ever has, except this time we feel Even guiltier.
It doesn’t matter too much anyways.. This whole article’s asinine… You spend so much effort arguing the semantics of words when you should be looking at meanings… Or just not looking at all, who gives a shit about words?
people looking to hurt other people, case in point, me. i want to stab all these assholes with my mighty pen…. is.
“Political correctness?”
Really? That’s what you’ve got? “PC is teh evil?”
Seriously, young lady, 1994 called. They’d like their rhetoric back.
I know you were pre-political at the time. And prepubescent. And I realize that you’ve just found out about it and are very excited. But it’s done. It’s played out. Move on.
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I just love the liberal responses to these posts. Time and again, proven by spelling, puncuation and language…uneducated, ignorant and devoid of any thought that is not fed to them by their handlers.
If one disagrees and they don’t have an educated, factual response..resort to race blame and foul language.
Puppets.
Judging by the number of lefties blasting the N word in here, I think you guys are on to something! Keep it up!
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thank you for not calling us liberals you shit eating wafflehouse.
The white robes are in the closet…to the left.
#10 Being pro-traditional marriage to the extent of denying gay people equal rights to form a family under the law does make you homophobic. You can’t say “I don’t have a problem with gay people” and at the same time disallow them to marry equally.
Taking the choice of responsible abortion (as in, before the fetus becomes too developed after the first trimester) out of the hands of the woman in question does make you anti-woman in respect to what a person is allowed to do with her own body. Also anyone who is “pro-life” should not purport to be part of a warmongering culture.
Individual ownership of guns is absolutely necessary to prevent anyone who doesn’t play by the social contract (which means to be a part of society, you have to get along with that society) from taking away our livelihoods.
The overall problem with contemporary political correctness is that it goes too far in trying to make sure everyone feels comfortable with everyone else, but it was originally brought on by people not trying hard enough to help other people feel comfortable. Back when US Americans were socialized to think of black people, women, gay people, and religious minorities as lesser individuals to white, Christian/Catholic, and hetero-normative people, it was kinda necessary to encourage people to stop using foul names for the “lesser” groups until they came to be seen as equals.
People should say what they feel is appropriate to say, and I hope most people understand what is appropriate that will not insult another person who is just living their life.
Oldie but a goodie on the same topic:
http://ladyliberty1885.wordpress.com/2010/10/22/political-correctness-is-evil/
and part 2
http://ladyliberty1885.wordpress.com/2011/08/14/political-correctness-is-evil-part-ii/