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-Caveat Lector- Paganism is preferred over Christianity.Is this bad, considering what the present system has given us in this oh so Christian World? Tenorlove wrote: Note: forwarded message attached. _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Subject: Fwd WW: The Tyranny of Political Correctness - fcfnnn072299 Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 17:23:09 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Forwarded by The Word Warriorette "Will forward - You decide" 07-22-99 04:04 PM God save the Republic and the Constitution of the united States of America! = BEGIN FORWARDED MESSAGE: Free Congress Foundation's July 22, 1999 The Free Congress Commentary The Tyranny of Political Correctness by: William S. Lind America today is increasingly a conquered nation. What has conquered us? An ideology --specifically, the hideous ideology known as Political Correctness, which is really Marxism translated from economic into cultural terms. What is ideology? In philosopher's terms, it is a "construct": a system of ideas, derived from one or another theory, that purports to explain reality. In fact, reality is inevitably more complex than the theory can explain, with the result that reality and theory clash. Here is where the difficulty arises. In science, when reality and theory clash, the theory is revised. But in politics, such revision is considered heresy by the ideologues (In Marxism, "revisionist" was a nasty insult). In their view, the theory is incapable of error. Therefore, reality must be denied, and suppressed. Anyone who recognizes it must be silenced, and punished. The result, as we have seen in Germany, in Russia and elsewhere, is the end of freedom and the growth of tyranny. In terms of the clash between theory and reality, Political Correctness is an extreme ideology, because it is an ideology of total inversion. Beliefs and social relationships are not merely changed, but turned upside down. The old sins, such as sex outside marriage, become virtues, while the old virtues, such as disapproval of homosexuality, become sins. Women are elevated over men, some (not all) racial minorities over whites, the sexually deviant over the sexually normal, the young over the old. Art is intended alienate, not to beautify. Paganism is preferred over Christianity. The more violently an ideology conflicts with reality, the more tyrannical it must become. The tyranny of Political Correctness is already seen on many a college campus, where any professor or student who dares question, finds himself in serious trouble. Any public figure who contradicts its dictates must offer a groveling apology or be cast into outer darkness, exiled from the public square. Why can't more Americans see what is happening? In part, because of the way Political Correctness operates, through psychological conditioning. In part, because it is happening without mobs of workers in the streets carrying hammers and sickles or troops of goose-stepping Brownshirts. In large part, Americans cannot see it because they know "it can't happen here." Only it is happening here. The great question confronting Americans as the 21st century opens is whether we will have to go through the full totalitarian experience, as Germany and Russia did. The form, of course, will be different, but the reality is always the same: thought control, with dissenters facing prison or worse. That is, in the end, what so-called "hate-crimes" are about: the criminalizing of political thoughts that dare defy Political Correctness. Sad to say, Ronald Reagan was wrong; it's not morning in America. It is twilight, and the night may be a long one. Bill Lind is director of the Free Congress Foundation's Center for Cultural Conservatism. Contact: Bill Lind @ Free Congress Foundation 202.546.3000 Visit Our Website at www.FreeCongress.org. END OF FORWARDED MESSAGE = ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT SOURCE: Paul Weyrich, the President of Free Congress Foundation and longtime political activist, declared that Grass Roots activists should apply techniques successfully used by their adversaries. "Be tough, Be respectfully militant. You must make it crystal clear that you will settle for nothing less than what is rightfully yours. Congress does not respond to reason, truth, fact or science. They only react to those who will potentially cause them a problem. Be their worst nightmare, make them have dreams about what you say. Make them beg for mercy!" Join Lisa Dean and Paul Weyrich Friday nights at 7 pm Eastern as they continue the tradition of exposing the people that threaten your liberty. Listen live at A
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Note: forwarded message attached. _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Forwarded by The Word Warriorette "Will forward - You decide" 07-22-99 04:04 PM God save the Republic and the Constitution of the united States of America! = BEGIN FORWARDED MESSAGE: Free Congress Foundation's July 22, 1999 The Free Congress Commentary The Tyranny of Political Correctness by: William S. Lind America today is increasingly a conquered nation. What has conquered us? An ideology --specifically, the hideous ideology known as Political Correctness, which is really Marxism translated from economic into cultural terms. What is ideology? In philosopher's terms, it is a "construct": a system of ideas, derived from one or another theory, that purports to explain reality. In fact, reality is inevitably more complex than the theory can explain, with the result that reality and theory clash. Here is where the difficulty arises. In science, when reality and theory clash, the theory is revised. But in politics, such revision is considered heresy by the ideologues (In Marxism, "revisionist" was a nasty insult). In their view, the theory is incapable of error. Therefore, reality must be denied, and suppressed. Anyone who recognizes it must be silenced, and punished. The result, as we have seen in Germany, in Russia and elsewhere, is the end of freedom and the growth of tyranny. In terms of the clash between theory and reality, Political Correctness is an extreme ideology, because it is an ideology of total inversion. Beliefs and social relationships are not merely changed, but turned upside down. The old sins, such as sex outside marriage, become virtues, while the old virtues, such as disapproval of homosexuality, become sins. Women are elevated over men, some (not all) racial minorities over whites, the sexually deviant over the sexually normal, the young over the old. Art is intended alienate, not to beautify. Paganism is preferred over Christianity. The more violently an ideology conflicts with reality, the more tyrannical it must become. The tyranny of Political Correctness is already seen on many a college campus, where any professor or student who dares question, finds himself in serious trouble. Any public figure who contradicts its dictates must offer a groveling apology or be cast into outer darkness, exiled from the public square. Why can't more Americans see what is happening? In part, because of the way Political Correctness operates, through psychological conditioning. In part, because it is happening without mobs of workers in the streets carrying hammers and sickles or troops of goose-stepping Brownshirts. In large part, Americans cannot see it because they know "it can't happen here." Only it is happening here. The great question confronting Americans as the 21st century opens is whether we will have to go through the full totalitarian experience, as Germany and Russia did. The form, of course, will be different, but the reality is always the same: thought control, with dissenters facing prison or worse. That is, in the end, what so-called "hate-crimes" are about: the criminalizing of political thoughts that dare defy Political Correctness. Sad to say, Ronald Reagan was wrong; it's not morning in America. It is twilight, and the night may be a long one. Bill Lind is director of the Free Congress Foundation's Center for Cultural Conservatism. Contact: Bill Lind @ Free Congress Foundation 202.546.3000 Visit Our Website at www.FreeCongress.org. END OF FORWARDED MESSAGE = ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT SOURCE: Paul Weyrich, the President of Free Congress Foundation and longtime political activist, declared that Grass Roots activists should apply techniques successfully used by their adversaries. "Be tough, Be respectfully militant. You must make it crystal clear that you will settle for nothing less than what is rightfully yours. Congress does not respond to reason, truth, fact or science. They only react to those who will potentially cause them a problem. Be their worst nightmare, make them have dreams about what you say. Make them beg for mercy!" Join Lisa Dean and Paul Weyrich Friday nights at 7 pm Eastern as they continue the tradition of exposing the people that threaten your liberty. Listen live at A HREF="http://www.radioamerica.org"http://www.radioamerica.org/A. Free Congress Foundation's web site: A HREF="http://www.FreeCongress.org"http://www.FreeCongress.org/A FCF granted permission The Word Warriorette to reprint material. NEW INFORMATION: Weyrich founded NET: The Political Newstalk Network in 1993 to provide conservative programming as an alternative to the mainstream press. In late 1997 Weyrich
