Political correctness, like its less virulent cousin relativism, destroys the ability of a people to discuss and debate matters that are crucial to the future of their society. Relativism corrupts the language by draining the meaning from words. Political correctness, on the other hand, is a deliberate attempt to place certain topics outside the bounds of permissible discussion. Taken to its extreme, those who control what is politically correct to discuss, control the society by neutering its ability to engage in discourse regarding matters that have been determined unacceptable by the societal gatekeepers. It is as insidious as it is destructive.
The current tempest revolves around the abhorrent language and thoughts by Mr. Trump that have just been revealed. There’s no point in trying to pass it off as something acceptable because “most everybody does it.” Nor will we stoop to making comments such as “at least he didn’t do things as bad as the Clintons.”
While those statements may very well be true, defending Mr. Trump by using such statements immerses one directly in relativism, one of the very things that has had such a deleterious impact on our nation. Put another way, what he said was wrong, and that indictment of his comments has nothing to do with what anyone else is doing. It stands on its own.
If relativism drains the meaning of our words, political correctness is a plain attempt to quarantine specific topics in order to control the agenda. It is destroying not only our nation and American culture, it’s actually killing people.
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Jake, Try this one on for size. You may need to adjust the title a bit. Craig
Okay, there’s the unabridged version. Back to you for editorial comment. Thanks, Craig
Ok all looking good, just took out a lot of “we this” and “we that”. Take a look and let me know if you think something could be phrased better. going to publish now
I don’t have much else to say. I fixed one minor grammar error I found. I also added a phrase to the “PC is corrupting the voting process, one of the very…” boldfaced topic on page two since that was about an incident in the UK and I thought perhaps I needed to connect it to the US. Edit at your pleasure. This was a challenging one to work on. Thank you for your editorial expertise! Craig
YES!!!!…..TRUMP IS THE LEADER AMERICA NEEDS!!!!…TIME TO TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK PEOPLE!!!!!…..TRUMP/ PENCE……Make America Great Again!
You want to hear a really atrocious mouth tune into Hillary when she is off camera and the media isn’t listening. She would make Trump blush! She swears worse than a truck driver and uses the F word in every sentence. But the media won’t tell you that! Instead they go back 11 years to tell us Trump said the word$#%&!@* OMG!
I’ll bet the Democrats would not put this up on their websites or print it! I sent it to a bunch of newspapers and twitter bugs anyway! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKYmiWiNqOw – Time for the Dems to see their own leader using the same lewd words as Trump. Sorry-VERY LEWD
i’am so sick and tired with this election!all it talks about is 10-20 years ago.bill clinton was a stalking scum bag.i remember no one cared.what trump said 11 yrs ago was wrong,but bill clinton and trump has’nt harmed the country by being stupid.women are not stupid,they know how men think,it is no surprise.hillary clintons past has hurt the country really bad.she is a habitual liar period,she would’nt know the truth.the republicans who bailed on trump are no more than traitors who all they care about is being re-elected.cowards!and their closets are full too!i don’t want to hear about 10-20 yrs. ago.i want to hear about today!
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PUT IT LIKE THIS IF HILLARY CLINTON WINS PRESIDENT WE ALL CAN SAY GOODBYE TO OUR CHRISTIAN WAYS BECAUSE THIS WILL BECOME MUSLIM COUNTRY .. MARK MY WORDS THEIR BE NO MORE FREEDOM .YOU WILL LIVE BY THE MUSLIM WAY OR BEHEADED SO YOU BETTER BE DAMN SURE YOUR READY FOR HILLARY CLINTON AND OBAMA 3RD TERM .. THINK TWICE BEFORE YOU VOTE HILLARY 500 THOUSAND WAITING TO COME BORDERS OPEN TO ANYBODY …