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If Political Correctness Means Everything You Don’t Like, It Means Nothing

HS says evolution is the basis of Political Correctness. Elizabeth might say that deviation from orthodox Catholicism is the basis of Political Correctness. Liberals are now saying that evangelical Christianity is forcing them to be Politically Correct.

All this does is make the term Political Correctness irrelevant, as the use of “racism” by conservatives to attack affirmative action and by liberals to attack everything makes that word meaningless

The Professor-Priesthood has no interest in evolution one way or the other. It has no interest in genetics at all except to ignore it.

If you want to trot away on your hobby horse that is entirely your affair. IN MY OPINION it just makes you intellectually useless except to our enemies who would like nothing better than to make Political Correctness a useless term.

Someone asked me why they should follow the Golden Rule in any form. What rule you follow is none of my business.

I am too old to be chasing people’s hobby horses.

Political Correctness is a very specific and natural growth of a powerful academic hothouse. I described it in detail in Why Johnny Can’t Thin: America’s Professor-Priesthood.

I wish I could say that Political Correctness included ALL my pet peeves. If I did that, I would be happy but the term would be absurd and useless.

The use of Political Correctness as a hobby horse is exactly like the conservative use of the word “racist.” Instead of forcing liberals to define it, or using it to make the point about white genocide, they use it to attack liberals back.

It doesn’t work because it is silly. They are just trying to win an argument instead of using the charge to fight the real fight.

Political Correctness is the idea that professors should rule the world.

Political Correctness is nothing else.

The reason people use the Political Correctness in a hobby-horse way is because they have some specific new form of political correctness they want to replace it with: six-day creation, Nazism, Natural Law, or whatever.

I attack PC as it is. We can unite to destroy it, but we cannot unite behind everybody’s substitute for it.

So I do not tell people they must follow the Golden Rule.

I see Political Correctness as a disease. If I cure a disease, I do not have to tell the patient what to do when he is healthy. On curing disease, all good people can agree. But if you have to tell the former patient how to live afterwards while you attack the disease, there can be no cure.

Let me repeat:

In a white society, now knowing everything is the key to science.

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