THE EVIL OF POLITICAL CORRECTNESS
Ah yes, political correctness. It is the spine of a civilized society, the moral compass that keeps each us from inflicting verbal injury to our companions in this great country. Yes? Well let’s have another look.
Today, possibly more than at any other time in our great history, our personal freedoms are coming under attack, hijacked by a pervasive cancer. Our birthright to think and say what lives in our hearts is being appropriated by special interest minorities who covet the power to decide what you and I can and cannot say. Certain accepted thoughts and speech are being dictated to each of us. We have become Americans afraid to speak our minds, being told that some of our language is not politically correct.
Martin Gross said, “Blatantly irrational behavior is rapidly being established as the norm in almost every area of human endeavor. There seems to be new customs, new rules, and new anti-intellectual theories, regularly twisted on us…” Down deep in our hearts Americans know something is amiss and it is disturbing. We all know the examples, from Don Imus to David Howard. Telling us what to think has evolved into telling us what to say so telling us what to do cannot be far behind.
Why do we continue to put up with those who would claim to be the champions of truth and political correctness? In the future who will guard the freedoms of intellectual thought and ideas? If we lose the freedom to say what we want, when we want, to whom we want, have we not lost a basic freedom our forefathers won for us with their blood? We need to loose the fetters of political and cultural correctness by overturning onerous laws that weaken personal freedom.
Does this mean we have to abandon common decency and respect for others and their feelings? Of course not. Should we still speak out societal ills such as child pornography, mental and physical abuse, hate groups and their language, and poverty? Absolutely! What it does mean is that as members of our society we need to take the chip of our respective selves and quit whining that someone or some group said something we did not like. We must protect this most basic of freedoms.
In the past, disobedience has freed peoples, even founded religions and defeated dictators.
It even helped create this great land of ours.
