Sipsey Street Irregulars: From Ten Years ago, But Still As Relevant Today. “Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small."

Thursday, April 2, 2015

From Ten Years ago, But Still As Relevant Today. “Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small."

Our Culture, What’s Left Of It

“Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.” -- - Theodore Dalrymple via Frontpage

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Anonymous said...: Do great minds think alike? If not, then then there's a lot of coincidence, based on the incidents of the day.
I refer you to this Western Rifle Shooter recent posting:

https://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2015/04/01/not-to-persuade-or-convincebut-to-humiliate/

B Woodman
III-per; April 2, 2015 at 7:15 AM
Chris said...: PC really is just a different word for group think, be part of the group, or be ostracized, these are our choices today. I, for one, will go the ostracizing route, I cannot stomach the pc crap that is being thrown out there, if we disagree, we are bigots or worse. I hope people will enjoy themselves @ camp Fema, God knows, there are going to be a lot of Americans being locked up, for our own protection, of course.; April 2, 2015 at 11:13 AM
Anonymous said...: As an aside, the correct terminology for people of color has changed so many times, that I no longer know what the current "correct" term is.

I have always just referred to them as people, and let others make their own conclusions.

I am not racist, or most any other kind of "-ist". People of color fought and died in the American Revolution, so to me, they are the same as I. Crispus Attucks and his brethren participated in earning our freedom.

I once saw a bumper sticker that said "Political Correctness Sucks", but I was unable to meet the driver to inquire where the stickers were sold.; April 2, 2015 at 8:15 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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From Ten Years ago, But Still As Relevant Today. “Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small."

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