Factually Wrong - Politically Correct

An essay by the late Angelo Codevilla, Professor Emeritus at Boston University begins with:
“Comrade, your statement is factually incorrect.”
“Yes, it is. But it is politically correct.”

We live in a world divided like never before – where did this great partition originate? I believe the trigger of that starter gun was first pressed by Marxist teaching and carried to great lengths by the Frankfurt School, an institute of social theory and critical philosophy based on Marxist idealism. That gunshot out of a warning flag was inscribed with the words “political correctness”.

I quote American author William S. Lind who said, “If we look at it analytically, if we look at it historically, we quickly find out exactly what it is. Political correctness (PC) 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, to Kulturbolshewismus (Cultural Bolshevism). If we compare the basic tenets of political correctness with the basic tenets of classical Marxism, the parallels are very obvious.

Political correctness is a term, derived from Marxist principles and proclaimed and spread by the Frankfurt School of Social Research as a method of creating a classless society imposed with limitations to free speech. Capitalism relies on the ingenuity, inspiration, and initiative of the individual. Political correctness was a process intended to chip away at and eventually conquer capitalism by advancing purportedly disadvantaged groups into a cooperative. Political correctness does this by refashioning speech to where any opposing communication can be deemed as vile or hateful. Political correctness has become so stylish now that we end up censoring ourselves. Media conditioning has done exactly the same.

If one thinks about the way one may feel about a certain topic, issue or event, but is intimidated or anxious in saying exactly how one feels, it is likely a signal of interference by, or the intrusion of, political correctness. If someone wishes to express displeasure about a topic but assumes abhorrence and disgust would be in the offing, one has fallen under the pressures and demands of political correctness. This is especially true in the age of social media and the contemporaneous court of public opinion.

Political correctness has been made so just and proper by those pushing socialism and collectivism that the correlation to Marxist teaching is undeniable. The promotion and elevation of political correctness have in the current term indelibly stymied free speech and any thought of generating or encouraging unity.

Over many years, political correctness has been manufactured as an act of malevolence or malice if talking evenly remotely pessimistically about a specific group of people or their actions, but any perceived sympathy or victimization stops if communicating about certain people outside a group not given the same advantage - even if that group is truly disadvantaged in any manner. Political correctness does not contain any inclusivity, but rather creates a select cooperative of perceived victims.

You’ve heard the expression, “Diversity is our strength”. If that is the case, as political correctness would lead you to believe, then, “Unity is our weakness”. This again is simply an advancement of division and derision in humanity. People take great offense now at anything even remotely hostile to their set of beliefs or principles. At one time, people didn’t necessarily agree on everything, but they didn’t hate, spit and sputter immediately as is the case now. The younger generation was born under the banner of PC and do not know a more peaceful time prior to it.

We have become a world of good and evil bulldozed and spread apart into splinter groups by the governance of political correctness. It doesn’t matter which group you believe you are in, because your political adversary believes you are in the evil one. If you consider yourself a centrist perhaps you are more prone to political correctness than you realize or even wish to admit.

After several years under the umbrella of political correctness, many have bought into its ultimate objective, buried agenda, and immoral intent. Humans and the human condition have been much maligned since and as more and more words, conditions, and circumstances are added to political correctness it is bound to get much worse and more hostile.

Climate change falls under the banner of political correctness. The elite, the wok, the left, and the admirers of socialism attempt to dismantle any credibility of a refuter’s character, not by any science or climate facts but purely by ad hominem attacks. They make their battle seem like it’s all about care, concern, and compassion for the people, and thus the climate skeptic is considered merciless and inhumane. Reality shows the exact opposite, but ‘projectionism’ is a constant eco-political ploy.

At some point, the silent majority needs to free itself of the disease of PC and take all of society along.