Where does all this stuff that you’ve heard about this morning – the
victim feminism, the gay rights movement, the invented statistics, the
rewritten history, the lies, the demands, all the rest of it – where does it
come from? 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. ( Doe's this sound like freedom to you ?)
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? What is it?
We call it "Political Correctness." The name originated as something
of a joke, literally in a comic strip, and we tend still to think of it as
only half-serious. In fact, it’s deadly serious. It is the great disease
of our century, the disease that has left tens of millions of people
dead in Europe, in Russia, in China, indeed around the world. It
is the disease of ideology. PC is not funny. PC is deadly serious.
If we look at it analytically, if we look at it historically, we quickly
find out exactly what it is. Political Correctness 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. If we compare
the basic tenets of Political Correctness with classical Marxism the
parallels are very obvious.
First of all, both are totalitarian ideologies. The totalitarian nature
of Political Correctness is revealed nowhere more clearly than on
college campuses, many of which at this point are small ivy covered
North Koreas, where the student or faculty member who dares to
cross any of the lines set up by the gender feminist or the
homosexual-rights activists, or the local black or Hispanic
group, or any of the other sainted "victims" groups that PC
revolves around, quickly find themselves in judicial trouble. Within
the small legal system of the college, they face formal charges –
some star-chamber proceeding – and punishment. That is a
little look into the future that Political Correctness intends for the
nation as a whole.
Indeed, all ideologies are totalitarian because the essence of an
ideology (I would note that conservatism correctly understood is not
an ideology) is to take some philosophy and say on the basis of this
philosophy certain things must be true – such as the whole of the
history of our culture is the history of the oppression of women.
Since reality contradicts that, reality must be forbidden. It
must become forbidden to acknowledge the reality of our history.
People must be forced to live a lie, and since people are naturally
reluctant to live a lie, they naturally use their ears and eyes to look
out and say, "Wait a minute. This isn’t true. I can see it isn’t true,"
the power of the state must be put behind the demand to live
a lie. That is why ideology invariably creates a totalitarian state.
Second, the cultural Marxism of Political Correctness, like economic
Marxism, has a single factor explanation of history. Economic Marxism
says that all of history is determined by ownership of means of
production. Cultural Marxism, or Political Correctness, says that
all history is determined by power, by which groups defined in
terms of race, sex, etc., have power over which other groups. Nothing
else matters. All literature, indeed, is about that. Everything in the past
is about that one thing.
Third, just as in classical economic Marxism certain groups, i.e. workers
and peasants, are a priori good, and other groups, i.e., the bourgeoisie
and capital owners, are evil. In the cultural Marxism of Political
Correctness certain groups are good – feminist women,
(only feminist women, non-feminist women are deemed not
to exist) blacks, Hispanics, homosexuals. These groups are determined
to be "victims," and therefore automatically good regardless of what
any of them do. Similarly, white males are determined
automatically to be evil, thereby becoming the equivalent of the
bourgeoisie in economic Marxism.
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