"Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small.  In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better.  When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity.  To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself.  One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed.  A society of emasculated liars is easy to control.  I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to."

Cover-ups, Cowardice, and Political Correctness.  [Video clip]

Orwell Rears His Head.  On Monday of last week, to use the phrase "sexual preference" was completely acceptable.  As recently as last month, multiple gay rights publications used the phrase.  Leon Panetta had used the phrase in the past couple of years.  Joe Biden has used the phrase this year.  Merriam-Webster considered "sexual preference" to be just another version of "sexual orientation."  But then Tuesday happened.  On Tuesday, the village idiot from Hawaii masquerading as a senator, Mazie Hirono, attacked Amy Coney Barrett for using "sexual preference" instead of "sexual orientation."  By Tuesday evening, the employees of Merriam-Webster had changed the phrase in their online dictionary to note it was offensive.  No, I am not making that up.  The dictionary company literally changed it after Barrett's exchange with Hirono.  Steve Krakauer, a former CNN producer who now produces Megyn Kelly's podcast, documented the change on his social media feed.  Gay rights publications such as The Advocate went on the attack as well.  In just 18 days, "sexual preference" went from acceptable to a hate crime.

John Cleese:  Society Is Now Controlled By The Most Touchy, Emotionally Unstable, & Fragile People.  Former Monty Python and Fawlty Towers star John Cleese has had enough of political correctness and the cancel culture, and as for the state of the "dysfunctional world we live in," warning that "it's completely hopeless..."  As for the sense of hopelessness he feels, Cleese blames the "power seekers."  [Video clip]  The 80 year old comedian is as politically savvy as he is humorous as he brings his one-man-show "Why There Is No Hope" to live-stream after blasting the BBC last month as "cowardly and gutless" for temporarily taking down an episode of Fawlty Towers that made fun of Germans and World War II and also featured a character using a racial slur.

[It is] No Longer Possible to Be a Democrat and Support Free Speech.  For freedom's sake, be offensive.  Not rude.  Not malicious.  But free enough with your thoughts that they are still your thoughts and not the programmed left-speak that is constantly in flux but thoroughly enforced.  A generation ago, Americans would preface a potentially offensive statement with a quick declaration — "this isn't politically correct, but" — before charging forth with what was on their minds.  It was a brilliant idiom that contrasted the communist control of language with an American's freedom of speech but still demonstrated the speaker's awareness that what was being said might not appeal to every listener.  Today, when a boss or college admissions board or social media enforcer says something is politically incorrect, it means you've been fired or rejected for having thoughts that do not conform.  What not long ago was spot-on American irony is now reality.  "This isn't politically correct, but..." is now firmly answered, "Then you probably shouldn't say it."  Say it anyway.

Tucker Carlson slams Seattle employee training on 'undoing whiteness'.  Fox News host Tucker Carlson urged people to stand up to racial hatred, which he views in the Seattle's new training session held for white employees to "undo" their whiteness as it relates to certain privileges.  The training session, dubbed "Interrupting Internalized Racial Superiority and Whiteness," encourages white employees to let go of comforts such as "guaranteed physical safety," "control over the land," "social status," and "relationships with some other white people."  The training also goes through a flow chart on how white people "cause harm to POC" and how they're unable to see opportunities to be allies to minorities.  "Prepare to be unemployed, pale employees of Seattle, your color disgusts us," Carlson said Thursday of what he believes the agenda entails.  "All that actually happened in Seattle."  Carlson accused people who support this type of program of being hypocritical in their views, comparing it to a type of conversion therapy that's been done on gay and transgender people.

Michigan to require all medical professionals to undergo implicit bias training.  Michigan medical professionals will need to undergo implicit bias training in order to be licensed by the state, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and state leaders announced Thursday [7/9/2020].  The state Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs is in charge of licensing medical professionals.  Under a new executive directive from Whitmer department will create new rules that make implicit bias training mandatory for people to qualify for licensure, renewal or registration.  The new requirement is based on a recommendation from the Michigan Coronavirus Task Force on Racial Disparities, led by Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist II.

Welcome To Your New World Order:  A long list of people, places, and things that are now politically incorrect.  For as long as the nation continues to go mad, purging books, movies, statues and history in its own cultural revolution launched by woke elites, The Federalist will be chronicling its destruction, updating this list with each new event in its collapse.  The Federalist will also be keeping tally of those fired from lack of allegiance to the new woke overlords found here.

Time to Pillage Pelosi's Village.  One of the enduring themes of the last decade has been when liberals pretend not to understand things in the hope that we will get so frustrated catering to their feigned incomprehension that we will drop it and go away.  "Political correctness?  What does that even mean?" Instead of confronting what PC is, they pretend that rejecting the idea of our having every thought and utterance policed by bitter, pierced sophomore scolds is a secret code for liking racism, sexism, Islamophobia, fatism, and all of the other myriad -isms and -phobias written in the pages of the Big Book of Bad Things.

Eight out of 10 people working in arts or culture say they stay silent about supporting conservative ideologies.  Eight out of 10 employees working in the arts or culture fields said that sharing controversial opinions could mean 'being professionally ostracized' or bullied, according to a new survey.  These revelations reportedly stem from an increasing culture of self-censorship and a fear of backlash from colleagues over views that may politically incorrect.  The Freedom of Expression survey conducted by ArtsProfessionals, a UK arts publication, received responses from more than 500 individuals in the field, many of which pointed out the risks that can come with speaking freely.  Some of these topics include expressing support for right-wing ideologies and conservative political parties.

HUD Secretary:  PC culture will destroy America.  The secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development says political correctness will destroy the country.  Ben Carson made those remarks during a congressional hearing Tuesday [10/22/2019] when he was asked about comments he reportedly made during a meeting last month.  According to reports, he made comments about transgender people entering women's bathrooms.  When asked to apologize for his remarks, however, he explained it was a misunderstanding and then went on to blast the idea of political correctness.

The Culture War That Threatens To Upend America.  Some have begun to debate the question of whether or not we are in a "cold civil war" in this country.  In either case, we are already in a hot culture war.  A primary aspect of that war is to manipulate a cultural shift to push behaviors that used to be private into the public sphere, while driving other behaviors that were always public into the private sphere.  It's not just the sex lives of the famous that are of public interest, but everyone's sex life seems to be discussed, debated and displayed.  In keeping with growing expectations of faux tolerance, one is almost expected to announce one's sexual preference and practices to strangers.  In doing so, people exhibit fewer personal boundaries in other aspects of life.

Manholes in Berkeley will now be called 'maintenance holes'.  At a Tuesday night [7/16/2019] city council meeting, Berkeley became the first city in America to ban the use of natural gas piping in new construction.  But that was not the only utility-related issue they saw fit to attend to.  No, there was another matter on deck:  Eliminating the gendered connotations of words like "manhole" in the city municipal code.

Political Correctness Is a Tool for Socialist Censorship and Thought Control.  In the novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four," part of the dystopian government that George Orwell imagined was its use of the language of "Newspeak," a simplification of the English language to serve the needs of the state.  Newspeak altered thoughts, so that people were rendered incapable of thinking outside Party lines.  We now see this same principle at play in political correctness, in which concepts behind words are being altered to fit political narratives, and people are censoring their thoughts to not violate the artificial morals of the state.

Microsoft uses artificial intelligence to push what liberals think you should write.  Microsoft has decided that you need help in understanding what words to use when you write.  After all, what you write and how you want to write it should take a backseat to what liberals think you should write.  Fox News reported, "Microsoft is harnessing the power of artificial intelligence to boost the use of 'inclusive language' in Word.  The feature is part of Ideas in Word, a forthcoming AI-powered online tool designed to improve users' writing ... In addition to 'familiar fixes for spelling and grammatical errors,' Ideas in Word will also offer 'advice on more concise and inclusive language,' according to Microsoft.  In the blog post, [John] Roach used the example of 'police officer,' instead of 'policeman.'"

Soon, Microsoft Word Will Edit Your Document for Political Correctness.  Is Microsoft trying to rehabilitate the image of Clippy? [...] I'm not sure anything can replace that stupid paperclip, but according to the business magazine Fast Company, Microsoft is rolling out a series of features called "Ideas in Word" to help users with their writing — and one of those features will have to do with whether your writing is sufficiently woke.  "Microsoft will soon preview a version of Word that will use artificial intelligence to make your writing not just grammatically but politically correct," Fast Company reported Wednesday [5/8/2019].

Weary of culture wars: 81% of Americans say people are too easily offended these days.  Culture may seem to be dominated by trigger warning and hypersensitivity.  A sizable new poll, however, finds that 81% of Americans agree that "people are too easily offended these days," an opinion that also spans political beliefs.  The poll found that 94% of Republicans, 82% of independents and 70% of Democrats agree with this idea.  The finding comes from a Morning Consult poll of more than 13,000 U.S. adults.  The public also reveals a certain weariness with both the culture wars and the social dynamics at work these days.  Only about a third of Americans would describe themselves as "politically correct."  Though half of the nation says there's prejudice in the country, about half also say there is too much political correctness as well.  And three-fourths of the nation say they have censored or changed their words or actions when around people who were "different" than themselves.

Radio station drops "Baby It's Cold Outside" over #MeToo concerns.  A Cleveland radio station has stopped playing a popular Christmas song that's been around since the 1940s, CBS Cleveland affiliate WOIO reports.  Star 102 Cleveland listeners raised concerns about the lyrics of the song "Baby It's Cold Outside," with some saying the words send the wrong message in the era of the #MeToo movement.

The Darkest Hour:  Government by the Head of HR.  A worker who has less time to empty his office than a family has enough warning to flee their home and leave their country; a worker who must box his belongings — who no longer belongs in a building — while armed guards prepare to exit him from the premises; a worker who says or does nothing wrong at work, but posts the wrong thing when he is home from work — I fear that that man is Everyman.  I fear that his gray flannel suit is, in fact, a prison jumpsuit.  I fear for him as much as I fear for all of us.

What Happens to the Future When It's Severed From the Past.  [Scroll down]  We are told that our culture and the way we live is now post-Christian and that the need for redemption by God has been replaced by the imperatives of a secular redemption defined by political correctness.  That new framework is largely based on the one-two approach of promoting guilt among largely successful white males for their alleged biases and misdeeds, past and present, and then providing them a solution in the form of relief and good feelings through making amends and accommodation to new groups and minorities.  In short the path of the new P.C. redemption has nothing to do with character improvement and everything to do with identity politics — races, classes, gender and sexual identity — and also the relationship that man has with the environment.  And there is simply no end to atonement, role reversals, and reparations to fix things.  As a result, we have come to a point where seemingly endless manufactured injustices are crowding out the joy of everyday life, stripping people of their spontaneity and their humor.  The tenets and framework of political correctness have largely negated the relevance of age-old moral truths, common sense, and the scientific method — all of which contribute to protecting relationships, solving problems, and facilitating progress.  As a result, we are experiencing increasing regressive forces that are effecting economics, law, politics, and basic civility.

7 Reasons Why the Transgender Revolution Will Fail.  [#1] The transgender revolution is oppressive.  As reported on July 16 on Lifesite News, "Failing to refer to a gender-confused student, professor, or staffer by his or her 'preferred' pronouns could become a fireable or expulsion-worthy offense at the University of Minnesota, according to proposed guidelines currently under consideration."  It is not enough to allow a biological male to identify as a female.  Hardly.  Society must conform, or else.  If "he" now identifies as "she" (or "xe" or "ze") and you fail to use the right pronoun, you will be punished.  This is already the law in New York City.  And Canada has taken steps to make this kind of enforced speech the law across the country.  This cannot succeed in the long-term.  Society will push back.

Liberals and the Death of Comedy.  Everyone understands that the left is against comedy, because humor punctures their precious earnestness.  It is widely understood that Mel Brooks couldn't make Blazing Saddles today, even if Richard Pryor wrote most of the script again.  But there's another movie what can't be made today:  Monty Python's Life of Brian.  Although the film is mostly a satire of political extremism, at the time of the film's release a lot of Christians criticized it for anti-Christian bias.

It's Dangerous to Disagree in America.  Private citizens are a soft target.  Papa John's Pizza founder and CEO John Schnatter was forced out of his own company for making an innocuous statement during a call with analysts about the NFL kneelers hurting their sales.  Exemplary Google employee James Damore made one politically incorrect statement and was thrown out on his ear.  Apple's diversity chief, a black woman, thought she could praise the importance of diverse viewpoints instead of diversity based on race — and found herself the target of outrage and controversy that led to her termination. [...] The threat of losing your job extends beyond your behavior at work.  If you express right of center opinions outside of work, progressive activists can get you fired, as happened to Dr. Frank Turek.  He lost jobs with Cisco and Bank of America for writing a book in defense of traditional marriage.  A homosexual manager didn't like Turek's beliefs, and that was that.

The Rise of Political Correctness.  Beginning in the 1960s, from Boston to Berkeley, the teachers of America's teachers absorbed and taught a new, CliffsNotes-style sacred history:  America was born tainted by Western Civilization's original sins — racism, sexism, greed, genocide against natives and the environment, all wrapped in religious obscurantism, and on the basis of hypocritical promises of freedom and equality.  Secular saints from Herbert Croly and Woodrow Wilson to Franklin Roosevelt and Barack Obama have been redeeming those promises, placing America on the path of greater justice in the face of resistance from the mass of Americans who are racist, sexist, but above all stupid.  To consider such persons on the same basis as their betters would be, as President Obama has called it, "false equivalence."  Thus credentialed, molded, and opinionated, a uniform class now presides over nearly all federal, and state, government bureaucracies, over the media, the educational establishment, and major corporations.

The Biggest Threat to America's Future Is the Media.  The pervasively destructive demand for politically correct language extinguishes the essential means of communication.  It is a fundamental part of liberty that Americans need to speak freely and openly without concern regarding hurting the feelings of others.  Political correctness is a weapon in the arsenal of the left, and free-thinking Americans should resist legitimizing such a tactic and refrain from using that weapon against themselves.

The Freud Fraud Underlies Political Correctness.  The whole intellectual apparatus behind political correctness, micro-aggression theory, totalitarian campus speech codes, the #metoo obsession with sexual mistreatment — all of it begins with Freud. [...] You can't understand liberalism unless you know Freud, and you can't appreciate what a tissue of lies and half-truths liberalism is without knowing what a charlatan Freud was.

The Rise Of Political Correctness.  The notion of political correctness came into use among Communists in the 1930s as a semi-humorous reminder that the Party's interest is to be treated as a reality that ranks above reality itself.  Because all progressives, Communists included, claim to be about creating new human realities, they are perpetually at war against nature's laws and limits.  But since reality does not yield, progressives end up pretending that they themselves embody those new realities.  Hence, any progressive movement's nominal goal eventually ends up being subordinated to the urgent, all-important question of the movement's own power.

Revisiting Orwell to Understand Our Times.  The concepts of "newspeak" and "doublethink" in Orwell's 1984 are manifest in what we know now as political correctness.  Newspeak is the distorted reality accomplished by manipulating the meaning of language and words, while doublethink is the conditioned mental attitude to ignore reality and common sense and substitute and embrace a distorted or false narrative.  As Orwell notes, "the whole aim of Newspeak and Doublethink is to narrow the range of thought."  Political correctness has the same goal and that's why its adherents are so intolerant — seeking to shut down and silence people with whom they disagree on college campuses across the country, clamoring for removal of historic statues and monuments, and demanding that people with opposing views on such subjects as climate change and gay marriage be silenced, fined or arrested.

Two New Totalitarian Movements:  Radical Islam and Political Correctness.  The attempt in the West to impose a strict set of rules about what one is allowed to think and express in academia and in the media — to the point that anyone who disobeys is discredited, demonized, intimidated and in danger of losing his or her livelihood — is just as toxic and just as reminiscent of Orwell's diseased society.  The main facet of this PC tyranny, so perfectly predicted by George Orwell, is the inversion of good and evil — of victim and victimizer.  In such a universe, radical Muslims are victimized by the West, and not the other way around.  This has led to a slanted teaching of the history of Islam and its conquests, both as a justification of the distortion and as a reflection of it.  Thought-control is necessary for the repression of populations ruled by despotic regimes.  That it is proudly and openly being used by self-described liberals and human-rights advocates in free societies is not only hypocritical and shocking; it is a form of aiding and abetting regimes whose ultimate goal is to eradicate Western ideals.

Firing Roseanne and not Kimmel.  Disney's decision to cancel the "Roseanne" show over a tweet shows that free speech is dead in Corporate America.  Her real crime is supporting the duly elected president of the United States. [...] The only mistake Roseanne made was apologizing to the fascists.

Gonzaga warned 'non-Mexican individuals' against 'cultural appropriation' on Cinco de Mayo.  If you had fun on Cinco de Mayo, Gonzaga University wants a word with you.  The Jesuit school in Spokane, Washington, issued several warnings to "non-Mexican individuals" against "cultural appropriation" ahead of last weekend's festivities.  In an email Wednesday to the student body, Judi Biggs Garbuio, vice president for student development, lamented that Cinco de Mayo, as celebrated in the United States, "has become more about drinking and partying especially by non-Mexican individuals."

The Editor says...
Is a Tex-Mex restaurant, by reason of its very existence, guilty of "cultural appropriation?"  What about a Chinese or Italian or Greek or French restaurant?

At an All-Women's College, You Can't Call Them 'Women' Anymore.  Since its inception in 1837, Mt. Holyoke College, set in South Hadley, Massachusetts, has been graduating luminaries — such as poet Emily Dickinson, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, and a myriad of other individuals.  As the first of the Seven Sisters — a consortium of prestigious East Coast liberal arts colleges for women and the female equivalent to the once all-male Ivy League — Mount Holyoke is now urging its professors to drop the word "women" from their vernacular when referring to their students, according to the school's website.  In other words:  At an all-women's college, you should no longer call a woman a woman.

British School For Girls Won't Let Teachers Call Students 'Girls.'  Mockery Ensues.  Last week, the Daily Mail took a moment to check out the logically indefensible, glaringly inconsistent "gender identity" policymaking going on at one of England's oldest, top-rated all-girls grammar schools, Altrincham Grammar School for Girls in Manchester.  Though the school is by definition exclusive and its name clearly describes itself as only a "school for girls," in the name of "inclusion," school officials have imposed a new rule on their faculty:  they can no longer refer to the school's 1,350 girl students using the "g-word."  The school has imposed the new PC speech code on faculty as part of its embrace of "gender-neutral language" when talking about or directly to children.

Orwell Is Alive at HHS.  A political tempest arose last week when the Washington Post reported that the Department of Health and Human Services had banned the use of certain words or phrases — "vulnerable," "science-based," and "entitlements," among others — in official budget documents.  National Affairs editor Yuval Levin debunked the story, though, finding instead that bureaucrats concerned about offending Republican budget overseers had, in fact, decided to censor themselves.  If so, that suggests that the bureaucrats have been reading their George Orwell, who observed in his classic essay Politics and the English Language that language is "an instrument which we shape for our own purposes"; they are sharp enough to realize that even neutral terms can constitute mini-arguments.  Each of the terms in question — and a great many more — have been weaponized for use in political conflict.

The Origins of Political Correctness.  For the first time in our history, Americans have to be fearful of what they say, of what they write, and of what they think.  They have to be afraid of using the wrong word, a word denounced as offensive or insensitive, or racist, sexist, or homophobic.  We have seen other countries, particularly in this century, where this has been the case.  And we have always regarded them with a mixture of pity, and to be truthful, some amusement, because it has struck us as so strange that people would allow a situation to develop where they would be afraid of what words they used.  But we now have this situation in this country.  We have it primarily on college campuses, but it is spreading throughout the whole society.  Were does it come from?

The rot of political correctness.  In today's academy, truth is an invention.  Expecting people to show up on time is racist.  Censorship is good.  Silencing opposing viewpoints imperative.  Violence to enforce safety is natural.  For the last 25 years, under the guise of "political correctness," we've been watching the inexplicable flow into our culture.  The idiotic demands of political correctness in the 1980s, ironically relying on the decency of the American people for their acquiescence, was just the prep course, an amuse bouche before the main course of creating social chaos and destruction.  It sounds dramatic, and it is, and it's also the only way the left maintains power — brainwashing people into believing that social norms must be destroyed in order to create a more perfect society.

Publishers now hiring 'sensitivity readers' to ensure political correctness.  If you ever worried about what the student snowflakes at American universities would be qualified to do after graduation, this is the perfect job for them.  Publishers are hiring "sensitivity readers" to check book manuscripts to make sure they adhere to politically correct standards.

"Manpower" Doesn't Mean Man Power.  Free speech is no longer free at our universities.  If you say the wrong thing, your words will cost you.  Even if you say the right thing it'll cost you plenty.  At Princeton University, you pay tuition of $41,820 per year (well, this being academia, make that per two-thirds of a year) for the language police to ban you from words they deem sexist.  The ban applies to so-called hateful words and phrases like "layman," "mankind" (which the censors deem not just politically incorrect but also oxymoronic), "man hours," "workmanlike" and of course that most-hated word, "manpower."

Political Correctness as a Tool of the Liberal Inquisition.  Political correctness is a deliberate tool used by the Left to intimidate conservatives and people of faith into silence, with the goal of making our classic and time-tested opinions illegitimate.  Political Correctness is a strategy, a weapon of social warfare, a bullying against those unwilling to reshape and renounce their traditional belief system and bow to the dictates of the leftocracy dead-set on total domination of our lives and culture.  It enforces censorship and activates demonization, threatening those unwilling to submit and apologize with loss of job, livelihood, social acceptability, company sales, friends, reputation, and status.

University Advises Against Using the Words 'Holiday Party' — to be Inclusive.  Political Correctness has gone CRAZY. A Texas University has issued a guide on how to have an 'inclusive' Christmas party without saying 'Christmas' or 'Holiday'.  And it just gets weird from there.  Texas Women's University in their handy-dandy little guide called, 'A 'Festivus for the Rest of Us':  Tips to plan an all-inclusive, multicultural holiday party at the office', advises against using the word 'Holiday' because it implies religious tradition and could be offensive to those who are not religious.  Instead, 'End of Semester Party' or if it's a work party, an 'End of Fiscal Year Party' would be much better choices.

Censoring Language as Offensive Violates the Constitution.  The 14th Amendment says that no state can pass a law that denies anyone equal protection.  This means that a tiny group of people cannot have a right to censor language as offensive, and no one else.  So far no one has explained, in constitutional terms; why one person, who claims to be offended, has the right to shut down the speech, clothing, or legal actions of everyone else.  At first glance this looks ridiculous, and it is.  But like many other liberal power-enabling concepts, those perpetrating it intend to repeat it so often that it becomes accepted by a majority of Americans.

Hillary's trying to make the election a referendum on political correctness.  To see what President Hillary's America would be like, look at most college campuses today.  Few on campus dare to question Black Lives Matter, militant multiculturalism and "safe spaces" to spare students from challenging ideas.  Hillary's dictating how Americans talk about race, sex, even body shapes.  Trump calls it like he sees it.  He doesn't stick to the well-rehearsed rhetoric of a career politician.  But his supporters are sick and tired of political correctness.  He's not running for saint.  He's running to get the job done, something Hillary Clinton has already proven she can't do.

Political Correctness Doesn't Only Threaten Speech.  White privilege is the notion that whites have an advantage in getting societal benefits in Western countries, to the disadvantage of nonwhite people under the same social, political or economic circumstances.  Trigger warnings are communications warning that the content of a text, video, etc., might upset or offend some people, especially those who have previously experienced a related trauma.  Microaggressions are subtle but offensive comments or actions directed at a minority or other non-dominant group, often unintentionally or unconsciously reinforcing a stereotype.  The original idea of safe spaces was that educational institutions should not tolerate anti-LGBT violence, harassment or hate speech.  Therefore, certain places were designated as safe for all lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students.  The term has been expanded to protect all minorities.

Gender Chaos in an XX-XY World.  We live in a country where people think it's okay for has-been rock stars to cancel concerts because of their beliefs but it's not okay for bakers, florists and photographers to do the same.  We also live in a nation controlled by very confused people who believe it's good to reinforce the abnormal behavior of a few by altering the normal behavior of the majority.  If you ever needed a definition of insanity, well, there you go.  So how did we get here?  It's pretty simple.  We no longer live in a society that filters the world through the Biblical prism of "right and wrong" or "good and evil."  In the absence of moral absolutes, people tend to make issues over non-issues and create wars defending non-victims.

Limbaugh: 'Obliterating Morality Has Been What the Culture War is All About'.  [Rush] Limbaugh said liberalism is determined to wipe out the concept of morality, believing that no one has the right to define it.  "Nobody can write laws that are based on morality and have them apply to everybody, because your morality may differ from mine, and there isn't any universal morality; there isn't any universal right and wrong...  "So something as simple as morality and right and wrong has now become politicized, and therefore illegitimate, 'cause you don't have the right to tell somebody what's right and wrong.  You don't have the right to define morality — and if you do, then you're a problem.  You're the problem.  You're the oppressive, old fogey, fuddy-duddy problem.  Meanwhile, you think you're just standing up for what's right and justice and wholesome and good, and their whole objective has been just to erase all of that.  Limbaugh said the cultural and political battles we face are no longer rational.

PC Culture Effectively Using Words as Weapons.  Apparently, having a different opinion from anyone is now being translated as 'hate speech.' If you think the idea of having a man with his private parts still attached being allowed to use the women's facilities is outrageous, then you hate all gays and the government needs to enact laws to protect the LGBT community.  If however a state tries to protect the right for women's privacy in the facilities, then liberal celebrities must boycott those states.  All criticism of Hillary Clinton is sexism; all criticism of President Obama's policies is proof that racism is back in America.  The tea party and all Republicans are racists, anti-gay, Islamaphobic and whatever negative the mainstream media can dream up and since the nation has forgotten how to reason, those lies are accepted as truths.

When Obama speaks about ethics and morality here's what I would ask.  Dictionary.com defines morality:  "Conformity to the rules of right conduct."  Ah, but here's the rub.  That definition fits a different era.  Morality today is personal.  It is not a standard to which one is encouraged to conform for one's own, or society's benefit.  Rather, it is about what makes one feel good. [...] Moral relativism has contributed to a host of societal and relational problems few wish to acknowledge.  To do so would force people to admit their "standard," which in reality is no standard at all, isn't working.

A Trump-Lover's Manifesto.  Once upon a time, political correctness was an inside joke on elite campuses.  Twenty-five years ago, it referred to outlandish arguments at Cornell and Oberlin about whether to celebrate "Womyn's Herstory Month" or ban the word "Oriental."  Now it's become something far more serious.  It grew and grew, breaking out of the college elite to universities everywhere, and then eventually to the government and all of civil society.  It now stands as a system to silence people who oppose the power brokers' cultural agendas; it punishes dissenters through defamation, intimidation, a new McCarthyism, and even threats of outright violence.  Nothing we debate matters if Americans can't have a real debate.  And we can't have a debate on anything as long as political correctness blockades us.

P.C. — R.I.P..  With provocative and occasional unrestrained rhetoric, Trump can be polarizing — sometimes inviting a raucous response.  But the real problem that gave rise to Trump is intolerance and the soft tyranny of humorless political correctness that envelopes communication and culture in America.  No one wants to admit it, but the seeds of ideological control characteristic of totalitarian political regimes reside predominantly in the Democrat Party and in its liberal constituencies that dominate the knowledge, information and entertainment industries — the media, the universities, and Hollywood.  And because of their leverage, these institutions have a disproportionately large effect on the population at large.  Slowly, over the last few decades, but with accelerating pace in the Obama years, the soul of America has been silenced by political correctness.  And the nation is weaker and more divided than ever.

Satisfying smackdown of a politically correct university president.  When The Bell Curve, a dispassionate and rigorously scholarly study of intelligence and class structure, written by the late Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray, was published in 1994, outrage from the politically correct was immediate. [...] This book was, in other words, forbidden knowledge and the taboo was being enforced by random affluent progressives, because among other topics, it discussed the indisputable fact that IQ varies in statistically significant degree by race, and it examined the various explanations for why that might be the case.  The position of [...] almost the entire left-leaning segment of the public and the chattering class was that such questions must not even be asked.

The 13 Most Ridiculously PC Moments On College Campuses In 2015.  It seems like 2015 has just been so full of examples of extreme political correctness on college campuses that it might be easy to forget just how full of them it's been.

The Most Rapidly Declining Culture in Modern History.  In a reversal of the early America that set the world ablaze with her record-breaking growth of freedom and prosperity, today our nation is experiencing the most rapid decline of any culture in modern history.  Political correctness now silences conversations that were commonplace just 10 years ago.  Law enforcement can arrest and even imprison people for so-called "hate speech" in the very country that prides itself on a foundational first amendment.  Christianity, the genesis of our societal, legal and educational structures, today is restricted in its application and confined to designated public rooms and private homes.

Political Correctness: Do We Have What It Takes To Reverse Course?  Every day, statements that people make are being grossly exaggerated, taken out of context, misinterpreted, and/or deemed offensive or otherwise unacceptable.  More and more words and phrases are being declared off-limits by "leaders" we don't trust and certainly don't agree with.  PC in its many forms has become a preferred tool with which the powerful elite manipulate and control public perception.  Mass media, political sycophants, and gullible ideologues have enthusiastically joined in the game.  Specific examples are unnecessary here.  If we're honest and paying attention, each of us can easily observe dozens of examples each week.

Army Officer Delivers Deliciously Scathing Rant On Liberals, Political Correctness.  Like many Americans, Jordan Thompson is fed up with the ever-extending shadow of political correctness that's currently smothering the nation.  The U.S. Army officer and University of Alabama graduate posted a long rant to Facebook Tuesday evening — blasting the Confederate Flag debate, food stamps and everything in-between — and while Thompson undoubtedly posted the message in an emotional state, I think he's really on to something: [...]

Political correctness Shreds the Constitution.  To borrow a catchphrase from a famous American leader who claims Orwellian transparency but practices its opposite, "Let me [actually] be clear":  modern-day "political correctness" is word-burning censorship, in direct violation of the U.S. Constitution.  Placed number one for good reason, the First Amendment specifically "prohibits the making of any law respecting an establishment of religion, impeding the free exercise of religion, abridging the freedom of speech[.]"  Known colloquially as "PC," this pervasive cancer forms the basis of the assault on the expression of religious freedom, which specifically targets Christian businesses, first in Arizona and now in Indiana.

Academic Fascism.  Faculty leaders of the University of California consider certain statements racism and feel they should not be used in class.  They call it micro-aggression.  To them, micro-aggressive racist statements are:  "America is the land of opportunity."  That is seen as perpetuating the myth of meritocracy.  "There is only one race, the human race."  Such a statement is seen as denying the individual as a racial/cultural being.  "I believe the most qualified person should get the job."  That's "racist" because it gives the impression that "people of color are given extra unfair benefits because of their race."  These expressions don't exhaust the list of micro-aggressions.

Feds to Stop Calling Midget Raisins 'Midget'.  The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) issued a regulation on Thursday [8/20/2015] to stop referring to midget raisins as "midget" after an activist group called the term offensive.  The USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) issued the proposed rule, announcing the U.S. "Standards for Grades of Processed Raisins" would eliminate all five times the word midget is used.  Midget has long been used to describe the differences in sizes of California raisins.

The War on the Culture War.  The Supreme Court's 5-4 decision mandating same-sex "marriage" nationwide is being heralded as the decisive blow in the nation's Culture War.  It is proof, pundits say, that Christianity is in decline and the massive reaction to the sexual revolution of the sixties has failed. [...] But is the Culture War over?  Every war must have a winner and a loser.  It is usually the loser that declares the war is over by surrendering.  This is a very strange situation where the supposed victor is declaring the war over without the consent of the vanquished.  In fact, most social conservatives are responding undaunted by noting that they have weathered many storms and are prepared to continue the fight after the devastating decision.  Thus, the court's decision does not mark the end of the war, but rather serves as an occasion to declare a war on the Culture War.

Political correctness can easily put you out of a job.
Man fired over anti-gay posting sues Ford, job firm.  A contract engineer is suing his employer, as well as Ford, for discrimination after losing an automotive design job because he posted comments criticizing the automaker's support of the gay community.  Thomas Banks of Ypsilanti filed a federal lawsuit against Rapid Global Business Solutions, an engineering and employment service in Troy, and Ford, where he had been on assignment at a Dearborn plant for more than three years.

The Left Realizes Too Late that Political Correctness Is a Virus.  It is enormous fun for conservatives to write long essays that rail against and mock the scourge of "political correctness," and yet, as I am coming to learn, it is also a monumental waste of our time.  As a genuine "liberal" in the classical sense of the word, I have no particular objections if people wish to descend into surrealism and intolerance.  But I am under no obligation to indulge them either.

The Seven Sacraments of Liberalism.  [#4] Political Correctness:  A new way of life requires not only a pure diet but also a purity of language.  Nothing that is spoken should offend anyone.  It is best to be silent because silence cannot be offensive.

A Terrorist's Best Friend: Political Correctness.  Here in America and across the landscape of Europe, political correctness has become the greatest obstacle to free speech, forcing a civilized public to acquiesce to evil.  It simply rebuffs open debate. [...] Created and used like a sledgehammer by political forces and the courts, this high-caliber weapon weakens and debilitates free societies.  Political correctness is not designed to protect the everyday people plowing the fields of normal and law-abiding lives; it is used to stifle speech and through intimidation, silence it.

Reality vs. Political Correctness: Amnesty and the Fight for America's Soul.  Dr. Ben Carson once made the observation that "political correctness" acts as a "muzzle" to quell legitimate dissent against the status quo.  That is undoubtedly a true statement.  But to drive in the stakes and build our intellectual ramparts on this point is little more than ceding coveted ground in an argument against a completely unfounded doctrine that presents falsehoods as facts.  There is a more fundamental observation upon which we can mount our legitimate defense against the doctrine of "political correctness," and it lies in the simplest inspection of the phrase "politically correct."  Inherent in those two words' juxtaposition is a certain insidiousness and intellectual dishonesty.

Political Correctness Is Cultural Marxism.  PC is, in concept, similar to Marxism, but its focus is upon culture, rather than economics, as the class struggle environment.  PC, just like Marxism, forces people to live a lie by denying reality.  PC takes a political philosophy and says that on the basis of the chosen philosophy, certain things must be true, and reality that contradicts its "truth" must be forbidden — eradicated since it disputes PC, exposes as untrue what PC says is true.

Caltrans policy stymies a proposed veterans monument.  Since losing a lawsuit in 2003, Caltrans doesn't allow flags or 'messages' on land it owns — not even American flags.  That's a problem for Santa Barbara County residents trying to put up a monument.

The Endgame for the Destruction of the United States.  Today we live in a world where people are afraid to discuss issues of importance due to a concern that they might say something wrong.  We have a society where people can be condemned for being on the wrong side of an issue, especially if you're in a position where you could be labeled as a racist or an individual who has no sensitivity towards those who are in some way in need.

The Left's militant, proactive intolerance.  I must admit I've never watched "Duck Dynasty," but this brouhaha over A&E's suspension of the show's star, Phil Robertson, for his remarks on homosexual behavior in an interview with GQ has little to do with "gay" issues and everything to do with thought and speech control — and the left's intolerance.

The PC Lynching of Phil Robertson.  The A&E Network's suspension of Phil Robertson, star of the most popular reality show in the history of television, for espousing views on homosexuality identical to those found in the New Testament may not be the first PC lynching in the history of our country, but it is certainly now the most prominent.  It is also a singular example of how political correctness, via cultural relativism, is used to undermine democracy and freedom of speech and is, at its core, fascistic.

The New Blacklist.  I'm sorry to arrive late to this controversy — explanation forthcoming in a later posting — but my impression is that the word "blacklist" has not been mentioned much in the debate over the Robertson family, GLAAD, and the A&E channel.  Or if it has been mentioned, it certainly hasn't had the central role that it should have had in this row.  For what GLAAD has been operating is a classic blacklist operation.

Political Correctness Run Amok.  The Office for Civil Rights in Seattle, a Fox News report informed us last week, instructed city workers about no longer using terms that some people in Seattle might deem offensive.  I wondered when first reading this if they were talking about scores of white employees using the N word.  No, that's not it.  The words they are complaining about include the following:  "citizens" and "brown-bag lunch."  Not to be outdone, New York City's Department of Education warned about such dangerous words as "dinosaurs," "birthdays," and, last but not least, "Halloween."

"Brown bag" controversy reveals chink in the armor of language police.  I tend to make light of the language police when it comes to the Saturday Night Card Game, but it's actually a very serious subject.  The incessant attempt to turn race-neutral phrases into racial testing grounds is part of a larger political war in which race agitators seek to turn everything into a discussion of race all the time in every sphere of life.

Seattle bans words 'citizen' and 'brown bag'.  A memo which was circulated within local government in Washington state, before being leaked to local TV station KOMO News, advised state workers that they should refrain from using such phrases in official business.  According to the memo, the word 'citizen' is offensive to those Seattlelites who are residents in the city, but not US citizens.

Seattle officials call for ban on 'potentially offensive' language.  Government workers in the city of Seattle have been advised that the terms "citizen" and "brown bag" are potentially offensive and may no longer be used in official documents and discussions.  KOMO-TV reports that the city's Office of Civil Rights instructed city workers in a recent internal memo to avoid using the words because some may find them offensive.

Which political party is notorious for offensive language?

The Politically Incorrect History of Rodeo Clowns.  As Charlie Spiering points out over at the Washington Examiner, this is hardly the first time rodeo clowns have parodied a president — he quotes a 1994 Philadelphia Inquirer article that tells of the destruction of a George H. W. Bush dummy at a rodeo in Woodstown, N.J.  The Missouri State Fair isn't the first time that President Obama has been parodied in a rodeo, either.

Homosexuals Get Duck Dy-Nasty.  "Tolerance," as it has been marketed, was always a con. [...] For one thing, tolerance always implies a negative, real or perceived; you wouldn't have to tolerate a beautiful car or a delectable meal — you relish those things.  But you might have to tolerate a cold or bad weather.  Thus, tolerance is only noble in two situations:  One is when dealing with something objectively negative that cannot be eliminated, such as irremediable pain.  The other is when confronted with something you don't happen to like and could avoid, but that is objectively good or neutral; an example would be tolerating a food you detest in order to avoid offending your hosts.

Encouraging Lessons from the "Duck Dynasty" Imbroglio.  The politically correct left has built a culture and network of intimidation against all who refuse to accept their views and especially those who are vocal in standing their ground.  Among the encouraging lessons from this brouhaha are that people are waking up to the tyranny of uncompromising leftist groups and realizing that they don't have to cower before them and cave to their bullying demands.  We're seeing that courageous individuals, secure in their beliefs, can make a difference and by speaking out motivate like-minded people to stand up and fight back.

The Namby-Pamby State.  Much has been written about the hypertrophic growth of the nanny state and its unremitting assault on the dignity and independence of the responsible individual citizen.  Its ill effects are seen everywhere in the devitalized West as an increasing number of people, approaching critical mass, have come to rely on government welfare and special entitlements while progressively abiding by the dictates of political correctness. [...] Everyone is empowered.  Indolence is a right.  No one must be offended (except capitalists, Christians, and white males).

It's Come to This: Hugs Banned at Maryland Schools.  Some people say California is the most liberal, progressive state in the country but I beg to differ.  Maryland is far worse and its newly implemented ban on hugging and passing out birthday invitations at schools (so people don't get their feelings hurt) has just proved my point.

USDA staff taught that the pilgrims were 'illegal aliens' in compulsory 'Cultural Sensitivity Training' video.  The USDA is under fire for spending $200,000 of taxpayers money on a mandatory 'Cultural Sensitivity Training' program in which employees were told to refer to the Pilgrims as 'illegal aliens' and minorities as 'emerging majorities'.

Builders forced to stop construction until 'sexist' Men Working signs removed.  A construction crew was forced to remove their 'Men Working' sign at a community college in Ohio after it was described as 'sexist and non-inclusive.'  The builders were also made to stop working until the sign was removed.  A college administrator complained about the wording at Sinclair Community College in downtown Dayton.

The Editor says...
Were there any women working at the site, or do the administrators feel it is necessary to be "inclusive" on those signs no matter who's doing the work?

Pickle company agrees to drop 'midget'.  A U.S. pickle maker says it has agreed to stop calling a variety of small pickles "midgets" following a complaint by a Rhode Island woman.

U.S. Pays $1.5 Mil to Preserve Politically Correct Graffiti.  Because it's considered defacement and vandalism, graffiti is a crime yet the U.S. government has spent $1.5 million to actually preserve some left during the hostile Indian occupation of California's Alcatraz Island more than four decades go.  Why is Indian graffiti worth preserving when local governments across the nation spend tens of millions of dollars to remove it annually?  Because, evidently, this is politically correct graffiti that has a "social significance," according to a National Park Service official quoted in a San Francisco newspaper.

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100 Facts About The Moral Collapse Of America That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe.  Most people tend to believe that we can "fix this country" by getting the right politicians into power or by implementing certain economic or social reforms.  But the reality of the matter is that our problems go far deeper than that.  A moral collapse is eating away at the foundations of our society like cancer.  If it continues to go unchecked, it will inevitably destroy America.  Unfortunately, fixing moral decay is far more difficult than switching out political parties, because it is in the hearts of hundreds of millions of individual Americans.  And most people don't want to hear anything about a "moral collapse", because most people like to think that the United States is setting a "good example" for the rest of the planet.  But as you will see below, that is not the case at all.  And if we are honest with ourselves, we see the evidence of this moral collapse all around us every day.

State Department Will Issue 'Female' Passports to Anatomical Males.  The U.S. State Department's policy on dealing with transgendered people will allow Americans who are anatomically male but identify themselves as female to secure U.S. passports that match their gender "identity" rather than their anatomy.  The policy also allows records for births abroad to be changed to reflect the "new" gender of an individual.

'Jesus Christ' Banned from Council Prayers.  The mayor of a Washington town has directed pastors to stop invoking the name "Jesus Christ" in city council invocations.  Don Jensen, the mayor of Longview, Wash., told the Kelso-Longview Ministerial Association that prayers mentioning Christ were not acceptable because they could expose the city to a lawsuit.  The decision has sparked controversy in the city — located about 50 miles north of Portland, Oregon.

Forget Transgender, Get Ready for Transpecies.  Species dysphoria is the equivalent of Gender dysphoria.  Mentally ill persons with gender dysphoria are fashionably diagnosed with Gender Identity Disorder.  There is as of yet no Species Identity Disorder, but that is no doubt coming.  Like Trannies, Transpecies Americans create special pronouns for themselves and insist that refusing to pretend that they're cats or wolves is a hate crime.

British Court Convicts Woman of Racism for Calling Woman from New Zealand "Australian".  Australian is now a racial slur in the UK.  This bout of politically correct insanity has been brought to you by the left.

This is an original compilation, Copyright © 2018 by Andrew K. Dart