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Political correctness is authoritarianism under the guise of politeness.
Political correctness is authoritarianism under the guise of politeness. It's an elaborate form of lying used by people who try to devolve the conversation in their favour with no intellectual effort
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Through the incessant repetition of mistruths the average mindless 'peon' is manipulated into accepting what the ruling elite want them to.
This is achieved stealthily by moving towards a predetermined agenda in carefully graduated steps until the sheepeople are all nice and safely corralled in cloud cuckoo land without knowing what happened to them.
Spot on Antrim , the sheeple lap this horseshit up and trip over themselves to worship the latest purveyor of the “ catchiest “ P C slogan so they can start parroting the self same horseshit
You’re welcome Antrim ; this site has a fair few deeply sensitive “ flowers “ who go around seeking a mutual clappy Happy love in and cry salt tears as they find offence everywhere they stick their elongated snouts
They sure are ; I’m off out now for a drink or three followed by a nice meal and a robust French red ( has to be done ) oddly enough myself and the wife were watching The wizard of Oz with my brothers kids just a while ago it’s a movie we both adore seems to have universal appeal .... have a great evening 👌☺️
It is a form of lying. When you can't say what is true, that is lying. Purposeful ommission is? Lying. Purposefully covering up or distorting facts is? Lying. It's also a form of cowardice used by some people to not have to face the objective truth.
Trump was found to have lied, or made misleading statements 24 times yesterday in his PC (press conference). It would be nice if he was PC in his PC ... at least once in a while!
Trump was found to have lied, or made misleading statements 24 times yesterday in his PC (press conference
If Obama is held to the same scrutiny and standard, it would be 25+, but of course the lib media did no "lie counter" on Obama, nor were his "unverifiables" unverafiables. On Mark Levin and Ben Shapiro's sites site they do past Obama speeches by the same standard and rules and find that he actually "lies" more than Trump when held to the same rules as to what is a "lie".
ALL may tell some "misleading (or alternate), facts" , but, Trump has told 10 times as many, in 8 months, than Obama did in 8 YEARS! And THAT is giving Trump a little extra leeway considering that HE doesn't express himself NEARLY as well! I can give him a little leeway, but not nearly 10 times as much!( x12)!
It is a form of lying. When you can't say what is true, that is lying.
Why are you pretending to have a moral problem with lying? You are hands down the biggest liar on a website saturated with absolute bullshitters. For three days you lied about snagging my IP address, until the site owner arrived to point out how and why you were lying, at which point you didn't say another word and vanished for four days.
Before that you pretended to be an American Native in order to give your white power bullshit more credibility, but when your claim was scrutinised it was discovered you were lying about that too. You were caught out when you claimed to live on an Indian reservation in a state in which there are no Indian reservations.
All you ever do is lie, so you've got SOME FRONT to be criticising lying as though you have some kind of moral problem with it.
Why are you pretending to have a moral problem with lying? You are hands down the biggest liar on a website saturated with absolute bullshitters
You have 150 puppets and think that being "antifascist" means ignoring regimes and ideologies that force women to wear burkas and hijabs, and slaughter gays.
Before that you pretended to be an American Native
My CDIB card says "1/1".
Being from Oklahoma, there is a 0% chance that I am not Native American unless I'm an immigrant. If I'm an immigrant that makes you an even bigger dumbass.
but when your claim was scrutinised it was discovered you were lying about that too.
Actually, you claimed there were no Indian reservations in Oklahoma. I then posted a picture of the sign which read "Cherokee Indian Reservation" of which you had no rebuttal.
Actually, you claimed there were no Indian reservations in Oklahoma. I then posted a picture of the sign which read "Cherokee Indian Reservation" of which you had no rebuttal.
Here is my "rebuttal", you lying POS.
The US Federal government broke up collective tribal landholdings through the allotment process before the establishment of Oklahoma as a state in 1907. Instead of reservations, Oklahoma Indian tribes have tribal jurisdictional areas, with Osage Nation being the one exception.
As a part of the process of tribal reorganization, under the 1936 Oklahoma Indian Welfare Act, the concept of “Former Indian Reservations in Oklahoma” was created.
You also purposefully ommitted this....
Of course it combined with the picture, destroys your narrative of my Nativeness.
Congress tried to further rectify the situation through the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993, which authorized substantial tax incentives based on certain business activity within Indian reservations.
Congress wanted to insure these benefits would also be available in Oklahoma by including in the legal definition of Indian reservation the term former Indian reservations in Oklahoma.
And of course this copy and paste from your link completely destroys your entire claim.
Political correctness did start out as a basic approach to civility, but it's generally become detached from that practice. Contemporary PC culture is an habituated practice of appealing to the alleged authority and legitimacy of a dictated socio-political narrative that obviates the need for discourse, and routinely castigates anyone who attempts to have that discourse. It is logically unsound and socially destructive.
You have a choice as to whether you WANT to be politically correct. You can't be locked up (legally) in a free country for NOT being politically correct. You CAN be in an authoritarian country. Our own President is RARELY PC! I would like to be a little more authoritarian with HIM, but, that wouldn't be politically correct .... would it??
The courts are forcing Christian family owned businesses to cater things that go against their faith. This is one of the many examples of Big Brother Political correctness in action.
The Left will sue us, put us out of business if we do not tow their PC mandates. The Left is made up of control fanatics pushing their PC ideology.
The courts are forcing Christian family owned businesses to cater things that go against their faith.
You are trying to justify bigotry by placing it under the umbrella of "faith". The state should not place your right to be a bigot above the right of other people not to be persecuted.
Do you mean the bigotry of persecuting communities when not allowing them the freedom to choose if they want a nativity scene?
You liberals are such total hypocrites.
You put the right's of some people who want to force their wedding reception onto a family owned business, over the right's of the business to say no to things that go aganst their faith. There are plenty of other caterers who will gladly take their money.
It's always has to be the political correct groups whose right's supercede everyone else.
No one is being denied their right to be catered. Control fanatics like yourself want to force it on Christians because you are arrogant bigots trying to force everyone to think like you.
Arrogant people like yourself would force an African American owned busness to cater a KKK convention.
You would force a Jewish family to cater a nazi convention.
This is what we are talking about, but you lack the intellect to grasp the meaning. Its called FREEDOM TO SAY NO!
It's called freedom to say no when a taxidermy business wants to force a PETA business to cater their convention.
It's sad we have such control fanatics like yourself.
You are for punching people in the face simply for disagreeing with you or because you believe they might be someone you can blindly label as a part of a European ideology from the 1930s and 1940s...
You also have nerry a rebuke when women and gays are really oppressed...
No! They are forcing "Christian bigots" to abide by the Constitution! They can choose to abide by the Bible, there is no law that says they MUST! However, there IS a law that says they must treat Americans equally, regardless of THEIR beliefs! A Constitutional right should NOT be referred to as "PC ideology"! "The U.S. government is, in NO SENSE, based on the Christian religion." John Adams
I do. I still respect Republican conservatives, it's the NEW, RADICAL conservatism I don't respect ... just like I don't respect RADICAL liberals! I'm a middle of the road liberal, forced slightly further left than I used to be by the avalanche of radicals of the right. The older real Republican leaders would have NEVER called white supremacists "very fine people"! I will remind you that, also, President Reagan supported the Brady Bill and several "reasonable" gun regulation laws. HE was not a radical, I respected him even though I disagreed with much of his agenda. THAT is why I don't "treat conservatives" as equal to liberals ... unless they are RADICAL liberals, then, same old, same old! I consider YOU a VERY radical conservative and as bad as a very radical liberal.
The older real Republican leaders would have NEVER called white supremacists "very fine people
Obama used the same political wording when referencing Islamic violence, so it's meaningless, unless we are now claiming Obama was a "Muslim supremacist".
And most people don't vote on social matters, but on fiscal matters, including Trump voters.Meaning? Most Trump supporters voted for him because of matters that are real and affect them personally. And there are many that simply vote for change. Many of Trump's voters voted for Bernie Sanders and Obama.
Obama NEVER called Islamic RADICALS very fine people. He said most Muslims are fine people He followed the Constitution and accepted all law abiding people in all law abiding religions. There are bad people in ALL religions.
Most CONSERVATIVES don't vote on social matters ... unless its Social Security, gun carry, abortion, immigration, any "social matter liberals are FOR they vote against. They are matters REAL to most people, even cons. I think many Trump voters will vote again for change, given the number of lies and "ignored majority" actions coming from the lying White House, like, Mexico will pay for the wall, the tax "reform" will favor the middle class, he will be a friend of gays, he will protect the environment and the other 2000 (approx.) lies he's told Americans in his 1st year!
Obama NEVER called Islamic RADICALS very fine people
He refused to even call them "Islamic radicals", call out Islamists for terroristic acts, and the worst thing he ever said was to call them the "JV team". They then genocided hundreds of thousands of peoples and destroyed ancient structures while burning children alive in cages and taking mass sex slaves. Instead of being outraged, you wait until one small group of white idiots march with a permit to become aware of vile groups.
I do. I still respect Republican conservatives, it's the NEW, RADICAL conservatism I don't respect
The one the liberal media has convinced you "magically appeared", despite none of us having met a bunch of KKK or Neo Nazi members in our life and this mythological mass racism that no one could see pre Trump...
Maddow, Cuomo and Lemon said it's there so it...must be...even though no one ever meets these people in real life, and we never see some mass conservative violence anywhere.
When YOU start, I'll start, how about that?? Gays, women, liberals, Muslims, Christians, Atheists ... YOU treat them all with respect as equals and you'll never hear a nasty peep out of me again! That's fair??
It isn't fair though. You're making up bullshit versions of morality. Paying a lazy couch sitter the same as a man busting his ass all week may be "equal", but what it isn't is just, fair, right, good, moral, or ethical. It's theft. It's slavery of the hard worker to make the lazy a monarch.
Not all cultures are equal. Some suck. If they didn't suck, people wouldn't be flooding the West to get away from their shitty cultures.
You cant even grasp how your PC fanaticism would force Gay Groups to cater conventions for Islamic extremists who would support beheading them for being Gay!
So we have fools who say it is ok to force Black family owned businesses to cater kkk conventions!
These same PC Liberal fools would force Jewish owned businesses to cater Nazi conventions!
Do you want to force PETA businesses to cater taxidermy conventions?
It's truly sad how anti Christian Bigots like you would force these kinds of things all because you hate religious freedoms. If you force one groups to go against their beliefs, you must force all groups of people to go against their conscience.
Did political correctness evolve from being polite to being authoritarian??? If so, I missed it.. Or did the right wing make up what they THINK political correctness IS, and then make fun of it??
In unpolitically correct terms, that's called a straw man..
But, I'll indulge you in any case.. I see that you think PC is a form of lying about something by using certain words in PLACE of certain OTHER words.. I'm curious about which specific words does an authoritarian use, and what words did he replace...
If being PC is about something OTHER than words, I'd like to know what.. Is it a feeling?? Is it that you don't LIKE being polite to black people?? Do you think people who come DOWN on you for calling them names like belubas are being AUTHORITARIAN??
Ah I see you re - brand P C bullshit as “ being polite” it’s actually a form of censorship used to gag people from saying what they think to what people like you think they should say and think
Here are several examples of the nonsense I speak of ,
1. The BBC has dropped the use of the terms Before Christ (BC) and Anno Domini (AD) on one of their programmes and decided that the terms 'Before Common Era' / 'Common Era' are more appropriate
2. The European Parliament introduced proposals to outlaw titles stating marital status such as 'Miss' and 'Mrs' so as not to cause offence. It also meant that 'Madame' and 'Mademoiselle', 'Frau' and 'Fraulein' and 'Senora' and 'Senorita' would be banned.
3. Throughout several US councils and organisations, any terms using the word 'man' as a prefix or suffix have been ruled as not being politically correct. 'Manhole' is now referred to as a 'utility' or 'maintenance' hole.
4. Loveable cartoon rogue Dennis the Menace has been given a politically correct make over. BBC chiefs decided to take away his edge in the remake. Gone are his bombs, catapult, water pistol and pea shooter - and in their place is a simple boyish grin.
5. Spotted Dick - a classic English dessert has been renamed to avoid embarrassment. The traditional pud Spotted Dick has been given the title Spotted Richard, after UK council bosses feared the original name might cause offence.
6. A school in Seattle renamed its Easter eggs 'spring spheres' to avoid causing offence to people who did not celebrate Easter.
7. A UK council has banned the term 'brainstorming' – and replaced it with 'thought showers', as local lawmakers thought the term may offend epileptics.
8. A UK recruiter was stunned when her job advert for 'reliable' and 'hard-working' applicants was rejected by the job centre as it could be offensive to unreliable and lazy people.
9. Gillingham fans had begun to fondly offer celery to their goalkeeper, ‘Big Fat’ Jim Stannard. The club, however, decided that celery could result in health and safety issues inside the ground. As a result, fans were subjected to celery searches with the ultimate sanction for possession of celery allegedly being a life ban.’
10. In 2007, Santa Clauses in Sydney, Australia, were banned from saying 'Ho Ho Ho'. Their employer, the recruitment firm Westaff (that supplies hundreds of Santas across Australia), allegedly told all trainees that 'ho ho ho' could frighten children, and be derogatory to women. Why ? Because 'Ho Ho Ho' is too close to the American (not Australian, mind you) slang for prostitute.
11. Some US schools now have a 'holiday tree' every at Christmas, rather than a Christmas tree.
It’s great being “ polite “ isn’t it ?
I’ve no desire to call you a name obviously you have an axe to grind so please vent away 👌☺️
The BBC has dropped the use of the terms Before Christ (BC) and Anno Domini (AD) on one of their programmes and decided that the terms 'Before Common Era' / 'Common Era' are more appropriate
In fairness, I think this is less about political correctness and more about historical accuracy. There is no proof that Jesus Christ even existed, let alone that his life ushered in the "common era".
There is no proof that Jesus Christ even existed, let alone that his life ushered in the "common era".
But there is proof that Before Christ (BC) and Anno Domini were used, even in your twisted mind, well before the BBC took it upon itself to change it for no logical reason.
I never mentioned Jesus or proof of Jesus. I said that those terms existed prior to Britain, Europe, liberals, or the militant atheist movement ever existed. If it's about "historical accuracy", it is "historically accurate" that those two terms far pre-exist Britain's stupidity or its opinion on "what is appropriate" because of "historical accuracy".
I have never seen proof that Jesus Christ existed. I also know for a fact that there are many qualified historians who challenge his existence, which can only happen in a world in which his existence has not been historically proven.
Thanks for giving concrete examples of what the Left is doing, so as to show the constant deception of people like Excon.
He brings up calling people vulgar names as the politcal correctness we are so against. He and the left does this to cover their true PC anti Christian motives with the censoring of words mentioning Christ.
The politically correct hold the idea that one should force others to not use words or spread ideas that might offend members of certain groups. These people attempt to shut down the free speech of others (often not even particularly objectionable speech!) by pressuring platforms and governments and/or through threats and violence.
An interesting part of political correctness is the "euphemism treadmill" whereby the euphemisms themselves become offensive and thus euphemisms for euphemisms must be constantly invented. One example of this is found in the word "retarded" which means "slowed" or "delayed". "Retardation" was a medical euphemism for moron, imbecile, idiot, cretin and other conditions (yes these were once medical terms) which had become commonly used as insults. Now we use "retard" as an insult and have replaced it as a medical term with "mentally handicapped" but interestingly I have already seen this term used to derogate others intelligence. In a number of years we will have to replace this term too.
Another example of the euphemism treadmill is the term "colored" which changed to "black" then "African American" and has recently come full circle with the present acceptable version "people of color". Note also that "people of color" is practically identical to the starting term "colored".
What is so amazing to me is how you most times agree with the Left's ideology. You would help elect the very people pushing this political correct Big brother indoctrination.
I don’t support any political party I make my own mind up on various issues I was and remain a freethinker , I care not about my views being popular or liked but I feel I have the right to express them whether people like them or not .
Regards politics I see a similar pattern in politicians worldwide big promises and big talk as they all spout the same bullshit worldwide but are only interested in one thing ..... Power ... can you prove what I state is wrong ?
My own family members will often disagree with my views and I say l so what ? They are my strongly held views and I’m entitled to hold them as are you yours what’s so wrong with that ?
But I don’t “ support “ any ideology , your insistence that I vote left wing in my country is totally incorrect , tell me what left wing party do you think I vote for in my country ?
You say .......Many of us possess the honesty and integrity to admit what we stand for, because there is nothing shameful about the things we support........
I agree that’s exactly the way I feel and I don’t care if they disagree with me .
ROFLOL, GET REAL! Killing Special Needs babies for merely being different. HELLO?
I guarantee you vote for pro abortion politicians. They support testing for and killing Special Need's babies, along with any other baby, for any reason.
