Political Correctness from the Right

[ck4829]

Look at anyone who calls Conservative Christians "Wackos" or "Crazy". Does the Right Wing congratulate these people? No, they call them Anti-Religious Atheistic Baby Jesus Haters. Why is this?

Being vocal against Bush will get you called a "Blame America First Bush Basher". You'd think being vocal against elected figures would be termed as being Politically Incorrect. Why aren't the Cons praising us for our Bush Bashing?

Is being politically incorrect only supposed to be used against minorities? Is it wrong to be politically incorrect when it comes to the majority? Or is political correctness in itself a myth created by the Right?

[davhill]

1. Where did the term even come from

"Politically Correctness" has been used with devastating effect against the left. Who started it anyway. Even liberals are afraid to call themselves liberal any more. We use the euphemism "progressive" instead.

[Bill McBlueState]

2. great post

We could make a list of things that are politically incorrect according to the right wing:

*Pointing out that there's no evidence for gods
*Questioning whether the military is more likely to protect or to diminish freedoms
*Using class as an explanation for historical events
*Discussing the failures of the Reagan administration

what else?

[Ezlivin]

4. Asking for specific, verifiable goals in the War on Drugs

The DEA’s recent investigation of a Midwestern methampetamine drug operation uncovered a connection with terrorism. This should come as no surprise. In a single night’s work in a makeshift lab, one person can make $2.5 million worth of methampetamine. The money can then be funneled to other criminal organizations. And this is easy money: The U.S. has an insatiable appetite for drugs of all kinds, both legal and illegal. In fact, in California the profits from marijuana alone exceeds the GDP of many nations.

Some say that our current War on Drugs can be won by “getting tough” and appropriating enough funding. In 1969 we spent $66 million. Under President Nixon’s “get tough” program, that number increased more than tenfold to $796 million. In 2000 the federal budget for the War on Drugs was a staggering $19.2 billion. During the last 15 years we have spent over $300 billion, more than three times the cost to put a man on the moon. What do we have to show for this expenditure?

Our legislators in Congress know good politics, but not good policy. In 1988 they issued this proclamation: “It is the declared policy of the United States to create a Drug-Free America by 1995.” They followed that action by requesting yet more taxpayer money.

1995 has come and gone. Where is the “Drug-Free” America for which we’ve been taxed? Congress has already spent billions and it still wants more. We will not be drug-free in 2007 (12 years beyond their self-proclaimed deadline) or any other year. As we should have learned during Prohibition, you cannot legislate away the law of supply and demand.

The solution is simple: re-legalize and regulate all illegal drugs. It is much easier to control, regulate and police a legal market than an illegal one. Budweiser and Coors executives don’t get into gunplay over territorial disputes nor are the profits diverted to terrorism. Valium labs are not popping up in neighborhoods. Why? These dangerous, mind-altering and sometimes addictive drugs are legal and regulated.

It’s time to just say no to the War on Drugs.

[pop goes the weasel]

3. term invented by the left

"Political correctness" was a term invented by the left as a critique of fellow lefties who were so ideologically driven that they refused to consider that thing called reality. Rightwing ideologists then picked it up, blind, like ideologists often are, to the irony of what they were doing.

Most people now use the term as a synonym for politeness, especially politeness toward people they don't want to be polite to. The term for people who embrace political incorrectness is "jerk."

[Odin2005]

6. PC shound not be used as a synonym for politeness because PC is FAKE politeness.

all it does is to prevent bigots from humilliating themselves publically

[valerief]

5. Wikipedia's got a page on this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politically_correct