The US labor department endorses idiocy like mandatory minimum wage not because of egalitarian concern for the downtrodden workers, but because the lion's share of their budgets are in support of such policies.
Nobody is saying we must flood African countries with mass immigration to make them more multicultural. Nobody is saying we must flood Asian countries with mass immigration to make them more multicultural. Nobody is saying we must flood South American countries with mass immigration to make them more multicultural.
Multiculturalism and mass immigration into White countries and White countries only is GENOCIDE.
I'd exclude the Judaic-Christianization of Greco-Roman civilization as a period of enrichment. It may show the promise of enrichment one day, but the enrichment will have to be a reversal, in the grand form, of the Judaic-Christian slave revolt in morality. I'd also exclude the Reformation and the Enlightenment as periods of enrichment.
I'm willing to take to the streets in fight of political correctness. Why are the left and the politically correct the only ones who are allowed protest for social change? They've fought long and hard for their right to destroy our country and culture. I saw we fight harder and longer to win it back. I see political correctness as no less damaging than fascism. What seems like innocent, if just annoying, social quirks that is political correctness, will soon turn to fascism. Mark my words.
@90sJunkie1 They aren't the only ones allowed, merely the only ones that feel aggrieved enough. It is one thing being annoyed and being in the majority, it is another thing when it affects your ability to function. The tables may turn one day and then I'll be arguing for your team.
Oh, but don't you understand that Blacks and Arabs have a common enemy in the White man? Of course Blacks are going to look over Muslim slavery because of that! ;-) Don't even mention to them Black slave owners in Africa, the South and the Caribbean or how White indentured servants were treated just as badly as slaves.
Hanson's comment at the end reminds me of my postgrad supervisor's story of taking a famous visiting critical theorist out shopping. When they came across an optometrist, the renowned Marxist scholar asked the shop assistant for a pair of 'Trotsky's glasses' ... and then whipped out his American Express card to pay for the glasses. My supervisor was very amused by the delicious irony. Such an oft-repeated contradiction between the scholarly left's ideology and their life practices.
a big part of those who bemoan "political correctness" and "liberalism" (those with hooknoses and 2 passports) have most to loose should it go in the west. they will experience.
I don't really understand his point. Why is political correctness a bad thing? It's helped our world progress socially in terms of dealing with racism, homophobia and sexism. Rather than analysing the basis of the movement why not judge it on the results, and then surely it's seen as a positive thing?
I think its the extremes that are being addressed,that &/or it being universally applied
think about the editing of Mark Twain's novels or not being able to address race/religion at all when what is being addressed is the reality (and in many cases anti-racism)
@bbchbbd Editing Mark Twin is truly PC gone mad because Twain was famously anti-racist and you have to take it into context. Sometimes PC is laziness.
@Pixiesforever7 Stand up coedians talking about crackers, spics, niggers and everything offensive under the sun has been what's made us think about the absurdity of racism, sexism, homophobia et al. NOt talking about what troubles the world doesn't work. PC is preventing free expression. Always a bad thing.
Western civilization is an amalgam of both Jerusalem (monotheism & personal moral accountability) and Athens (civic duty & personal political accountability). Jerusalem and Athens for their parts were imperfect in their rudimentary forms; Jerusalem being racialist and Athens diffuse. They moderated each other. Now we are hurtling into secularism, Athens without civic pride and token piety, with its end of nihilism, or fundamentalism, religious nostaligia, which ends in apocalypticism.
Some very good points, I think the implication of this are over-stated. Even within the humanities, this kind of 'political correctness' is marginal and highly criticised.
Wise words...I've come to an increased appreciation for Victor Davis Hanson and his work.
However, I sincerely do not believe the light and promise of the Hellenistic world was "enriched" by Jerusalem. Darkened and stultified, yes. What Victor (and other supporters of our so called "Judeo-Christian heritage") fails to realize here, is that Jerusalem is the direct harbinger of Mecca and Medina, and the disaster that came barreling out in the 7th century. You can't have it both ways.
A Republican I can understand and learn from. Amazing. I wish I could see guys like this on Fox News more often! I don't particularly agree with all his points, but he makes himself well understood, in a rational way, and uses great examples. If just all Republicans were this rational..
also... oh the poor poor white heterosexual men.. truly my heart bleeds for them.
Now I'll be honest you can't belong to a single group on this planet without SOMEONE hating you for SOMETHING. But white heterosexual men are not exactly a vulnerable group. In fact they're actually the least vulnerable group in spite of some of them being really butthurt.
More like tainted. The advent of Christianity started the darkages REVERSING progress of western civilization and keeping it ignorant for a full millenium.
The west would have been much better off without christianity.
Fuck political correctness fuck progressives and fuck the far left! They are all ruining this country and are the reason why my parents can't find a fucking job! Oh yeah, and fuck all the unions as well!
@jwh30385 I don't give a shit. It's all a plot for global government and it is fucking up our country. All unions need to die at once. If I could put a thermal detonator in every single union building and activate the main fuse to blow them all up at once, I would do so to save this country from this financial disaster.
@gamefreak1000000 How about you go work in an unsecured work place for 14 hours a day, making a dollar a day, with no breaks, no days off and no job security. Meanwhile I'll go on enjoying my 8 hour work days, overtime pay, lunch break and fair pay check.
@jwh30385 Yeah, but how would you enjoy global government fucking up this country? Unions are the reason why our economy is bad. They're the reason why 80% of small businesses are going under, creating less job oppertunities for everyone. Unions are just a plan for global government plotted by spooky dude (aka George Soros).
@gamefreak1000000 The economy in this country is bad because we have extremely inefficient ways of doing things. Take our healthcare system before the reform. US taxpayers fund the world's most expensive healthcare system, but don't get anything back. We pay twice the amount of money that a universal healthcare system costs, yet we still have to have medical insurance. In many states, the Prison system receives twice the funding of the education system.
@gamefreak1000000 Our healthcare system is a disaster, our immigration system excludes immigrants who want to work and pay taxes, our education system sucks, our entire social welfare system is a joke and our justice system is counter-productive. Yet, pretty much every country with a high standard of living also has strong unions.
@jwh30385 Actually, you're wrong. Hong Kong is actually the wealthiest place in the world and they don't get their wealth from government or unions. They get it by investing in valuables like solar panels and other precious rare metals. They're economically booming because of what they invest in and how much their dollars are worth, not because of unions and other B.S. that you believe in.
Countries such as Greece is failing because of high government spendings, so unions aren't the solution.
@gamefreak1000000 Greece is bankrupt due to unrealistic government spending, and crappy enforcement of taxation. Hong Kong is a very wealthy place, I'm going by standard of living however. Meaning the average Joe's living standards.
@jwh30385 No, Mickey D's can't pay people $1.50/hour because then no one would apply there. They'd be applying at the BK down the street that would have the good sense to offer $8-9/hour starting wages.
@Halo4Lyf Or applying to the BK down the street paying $2 an hour. I see where you're going, employment competition. That works for highly skilled workers, in which there is actual competition for workers.
Your point works great in theory, not in real life.
@jwh30385 If an employer deems that labor is only worth $2/hr to him, then he should be allowed to offer that pay. And he'll get demolished by competition that offers better pay. Plus, it's the laborer's responsibility to make himself more valuable to the employer.
That may sound harsh, but it avoids the evil of what the unions did to GM and Chrysler... where manufacturers become pension programs that occasionally make things on the side.
@Halo4Lyf Tha's preciesly my point. You cannot get skills if you do not have resources. When you are stuggling to earn enough to maintain your family you have no time for training.
One reason the USA is rich because it exploits the poor. Not only other countries but even its own people. People want to immigrate to USA bacause they would rather be on the side that is exploiting than be exploited. They either do not realise the wealth is very unevenly distributed or their country is so poor that even the lowly minimum wage in USA is worthwhile if they can send remittances home where the exchange rate is good.
@Halo4Lyf Do you really think a CEO is hundreds of times more "worthy" than a basic wage earner in his own company? That's the ratio. So much for "austerity" measures. Compare that to CEO of Japan Airlines. Yes WEALTH IS UNEVENLY DISTRIBUTED IN USA.
@sqgl If it's a privately owned company, the CEO can pay himself whatever he wants. If it's a publically traded company, then his wage is whatever the board authorizes.
You clearly don't understand the concept of property and ownership.
@Halo4Lyf You are right, I do not understand the concept of property and ownership when it comes to water. air, earths atmosphere. I don't undestand why a corporation can evict me from my privately owned land to mine beneath me.. What about you? Do you understand "fractional reserve banking" whereby about 90% of the "money" banks "own" does not even actually exist except as accounting entries? Do you understand that your Reserve Bank is privately owned? And do you condone that?
@sqgl Yes, I understand fractional reserve banking - it's probably not very wise. Yes, I know the Federal Reserve is (sort of) privately owned - and I think it's blatantly unconstitutional, since only Congress is authorized to regulate the money supply of the United States. I will NOT ally with those against corporate business, and private property in general, in order to do something about either. A Constitutional Convention will do just fine.
@Halo4Lyf "A Consitutional Convention will do just fine" I take it you mean *the* Constitutional Convention... nice idea but it isn't seving most Americans too well at the moment. More transparency is the key. My parents escaped a communist country so I am not totally Left Wing myself. Privatising prisons was a bad move - at least with government there is a *chance* of transparency. USA has 1% of it's population encarcerated. Many of them mentally ill or pot smokers yet alcohol causes most harm.
@sqgl No, I mean *a* Constitutional Convention. As in, an Article V Convention. You're aware that the Constitution provides a means for itself to be amended, right? A handful of amendments is really all that's needed - a balanced budget amendment, an amendment phasing out Federal entitlements, one preventing Congress from delegating regulatory power, things along those lines.
Really, our last problem is how many fucking potheads we have locked up. I couldn't really care any less than I do now.
@Halo4Lyf It has nothing to do with advocating smoking pot or not. I told you: alcohol causes much more harm. Stats here in Australia in 1977 showed 97% of drug-related deaths were from Alcohol & Tobacco, 2 % from Pharmaceuticals, 1% from all of the illicit drugs put together. US is similiar I bet. If you don't care about that, then you are wilfully ignorant of who pulls the strings regarding our laws. We had the Grand Prix in Melbourne and the major sponsor was Fosters beer... is that sanity?
@sqgl Here's why: alcohol has well-understood and predictable effects on human physiology that are easily recovered from given a little time. Cannabis, not so much. Therefore, there is such a thing as responsible alcohol consumption. I know, because I myself drink in moderation. I'll even concede that there may be such a thing as smoking pot in moderation, since I have a few friends that do so.
But I still don't want it legalized. If for no other reason than to piss losers like you off.
He gives his agenda away when he only mentions Western Europe's history when talking about progress. The Koreans invented the printing press (not Gutenburg), Indians came up with the "Pythagorean Theorom" long before he did. Our numerals are Arabic etc
@jwh30385 - Wrong. It has worked in real life. You bullshit ideas are applied now and they invariably create poverty. How? Wages have NOTHING to do with money. You don't know what money is. You don't know anything about money so all of your arguments concerning money are false. This bullshit idea that you can FORCE someone to pay more than you produce is not only innane, it's stupid. It's actually stupid. It suggests that a man-made law can create something from thin aid - prosperity.
As just a theory I believe that Political Correctness also extends it hand by creating division between races,sexes etc. by constantly bombarding youth with "oppression curriculum". Uninformed Blacks,Hispanics,Asians and Whites are used to create divide. The muscular class of these races no better but are out numbered.I agree with VDH and I'm AA.Race is played so much for agenda's so much its ridiculous.
Political correctness runs rampant across the United States & emanates from sensitive people afraid of truthfully pointing out problems within a society. Tolerance contributes to the success of our society. Political correctness can lead people 2 avoid problem solving head-on and make people avoid actual issues for fear of offending some1. If a group of ppl is relevant 2 a problem & it leads 2 fear from other groups, then ppl should b able 2 express those fears publicly w/o being called bigots.
@barzouf94 I was hoping that there was a reason the rest of the world thought us to be ignorant and that I had some hope. Oh well if were fucked might as well spark up and sit back.
The thing is is people focus too much on race&gender. Instead of looking at a person as an individual, than things like affirmative action shows up. Which hires people based on minority. It's like wait, if we looked at everyone as an individual and not as a specific race or gender, racism wouldn't be an issue. But than people say something like, well racism will never end so we need to make due and try to put a band-aid on an infected wound, which I say makes that person part of the problem.
This guy is talking out of his ass. Political correctness wasn't born out of making other parts of the world seem better than us. It was to make ourselves held to account for what we say. It has its faults, but this chicannery.
@TheLummer66 - Nice try. Your entire argument is based on personal attacks. You've provided ZERO evidence. None. You're so fucked in the head it's impossible for you to think. You call it "chicannery" (misspelled) yet it was YOU who didn't provide one single bit of evidence. You blame and accuse him of everything YOU are guilty of. You don't know shit. You're a liar and a phony. You're so beyond stupid you cannot even make a cogent argument with one single fact. Nothing.
Great stuff. Unfortunately, it is an all too common fault of people to reject certain principles while at the same time benefitting from and/or encouraging the same principles in their everyday mode of life.
islam is not a country you muppet, it is a religion, likewise the west is not a religion (well unless you validate credit card worshipping bimbos). political correctness is an over zelous monstocity, but you are a biggoted arsehole and not helping the case
study the origin of Political Correctness- which is the Frankfurt School = Freudian Marxism to destroy Western values. type in "Frankfurt School" on Youtube
great talk, i dispise political correctness and the damage it has done on western civilisation, multiculturalism and diversity are also products of this.
If you're talking about how no middle east country is modernizing you can thank you US policy.
in 1953 we overthrew a secular Iran which turned Islamic in 79 and we funded terrorists in Afganinstan turning it from a secular communist state to the hellhole it is now.
Oh and this spread, like how the 79 movement in Iran spread to Egypt and Algeria.
@AndroidPolitician First of all the scientific method was not discovered it was developed. Second, the contributions of Muslims to the advancement of knowledge has as much to with Islam as the contributions by physicists (many of the greatest of which are and were Jews) has to do with Judaism.
It kind of does, being muslim in 1000 AD isn't like being jewish now.
Most jewish scientists are agnostic but Alhazen was a devout muslim during a period more theocratic then now and created the scientific method and discovered optics.
And please don't turn this into "how can he be jewish if he's agnostic" it's both an ethnic group and a religion.
Let me make the point pointblank then so that you can quit sidestepping it: religion of any kind be it voodoo, Islam, Christianity, Hindu or what have you, has nothing to tell science, N O T H I N G. Zip, zilch, nada. If Mr. Alhazen contributed anything it was in spite of Islam (A fetid excrescence of retreaded Judeo/Christianity marinated in camel poop) not thanks to it.
I'm not saying Islam was a guiding light, I'm just saying that it's possible to make ground breaking scientific discoveries and not be western at the same time.
Most people leaving comments would like to think otherwise.
If you wish to claim Muslims, by taking the sword to even greater barbarians than themselves, created pleasant working conditions enabling Mr. Alhazens contemplative moments, that, I might consider.
He is mostly right but still accepts the premises of the anti-Westerners (the existence of sexism, for example). By doing that he has already lost the argument.
Regardless, the only answer for all cultures is a combination of economic and political isolationism, cultural nationalism (without isolationism!) and a general geopolitical tolerance.
All things considered, I think Western culture is the best of all. However, that is a FAR cry from saying that there is nothing to criticize. Many of the problems we have today do result from paradigms that are uniquely "Western" in character. The Enlightenment, for example, proposed mechanical understandings of the material universe that has led to the devaluation and abuse of nature and the resultant climate crises. The moral decline we're seeing right now probably results, in large part,
from the fact that we have lost the "fleshly," natural basis for our sense of morality (what with paradigms that subject appearances and experience to mechanical scientific laws, the reduction of the body to a subject for anatomy, the radical detachment of the modern experimenter from what he is observing, etc). Much of this is uniquely modern in character, having sprung up in the last several hundred years. I would say that things such as feminism, multiculturalism, and other such things...
are "shadow" phenomena. They are suppressed realities that are resurfacing in symptomatic form. I don't think waving the finger at them, trying to squash them, is the right respone to them. Nor, on the other hand, do I believe that we should CAPITULATE to them. Rather, we should listend to what they are trying to say about us as a culture, and try to reincorporate qualities we have lost or have been lacking, thereby making Western culture even better (rather than "tearing it down").
In other words, we get to maintain all of those truly wonderful aspects of Western culture that Dr. Hanson alluded to while also incorporating qualities that have been attenuated by its more problematic aspects. That's the beauty of Western culture -- it can claim as its own what is legitimate and good about any cultural or philosophical system. There are things we can learn from non-Western cultures and other philosophies...again, not so that we can UNDERMINE Western culture, but so that...
@1r1shCath0l1c Using your logic about seeing the West from non-Western eyes (especially those eyes that have been injured by a Western power), would you then agree that the best way to make women even better is to call them fat, disgusting whores and encourage them to dance the pole? Or to say that blacks are nothing more than chicken-eating criminals who are too lazy to get jobs? Because that's the criticism of the West you're talking about--not constructive, but destructive--Victimology 101.
@milesbennettdyson The criticism that the shadow phenomena I mentioned often does take on that character, yes. What I'm trying to propose is a constructive, reason-based criticism that tries to understand what they are saying to us, without either condoning their excesses or, on the other hand, condemning them with undue harshness.
@1r1shCath0l1c Michel De Certeau talks at length in his "Writing of History" that there is no one actual history--only a series of narratives interwoven for particular ends at particular times, which can be rearranged at any point. I'm not sure if Certeau attempts to show these alternating historical narratives have any curative force in the advancement of western culture, but at the very least it would explain in greater detail the idea you're discussing here.
@1r1shCath0l1c "Writing of History" may be a bit long, but it's worth it. Certeau's much shorter text on modern culture's multifaceted nature, "Culture in the Plural," is an easier read, though it may not touch specifically on religious behavior. Certeau was a nonconformist Jesuit, so many of his writings go back to the church; "The Mystic Fable" devotes an entire volume just to medieval mysticism and its modern effects in society.
The politically-correct Left are funny folk. All property is theft (except when it's theirs), all people are of equal worth (except the ones they want to constantly guilt-trip for the sins of the fathers) and all points of view are valid and worthy of protection (except those they don't like).
Very unequal these 'Equality' people!
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Even while attending college, and supporting various "left wing' causes, I never felt like giving two shits to political correctness. It just doesn't sit right, no matter what side of the fence you're on.
@SouthernWhiteTrash True, and as a visible minority, it's VERY demeaning and makes me feel excluded in a way. It creates barriers between whities and darkies =P
political correctness is merely a form of cultural marxism, it exists precisely to destroy the existing prevailing culture. And it is working, America is already a socialist state, people are increasingly taxed to finance unproductive elements... America is also becoming a nation of imbeciles (because what the public education curriculum amounts to is planned ignorance) that diverts much attention to log rolling "diversity" issues while extolling the "wonders" of multiculturalism.
@lictor313 ...continued, in other words, America is committing suicide- through mass third world immigration, a hard left leaning and insane mass media, and the progressive defacement of the constitution and indeed Western Civilization, it will become another Brazil, a failed state where all those hate crazed "diversity is our strength" mongers would never want to live in.
@lictor313 Political Correctness is pushed the agenda of enslaving people. Once people think that they are politically correct they begin judging others behavior to see if they are politically correct. After that, laws are enforced and people go into slavery
Its true many cultures try to trash the USA for being the USA but emulate its lifestyle ideals. There is no perfect culture that operates on a large population base.
White people have never done anything wrong-----its colored people's problem for being so stupid-----
just kidding-----I think the real political correctness is---I'm rich and don't you dare challenge that----I'm your employer--you're my slave-----I own you and your family so pay your dues!
Whiing about PC, is this guy out step. People have been whining about PC for two decades. It also helped the US high standard of living thanks to a big fertile continent full of resources with weak friendly neighbors. He is just repeating Limbo's rants.
That's better; I though t you were leaning on the keyboard back there. Just kiddin'. I agree that htere are all sorts of absurdities in all sorts of scriptures, but I also think it's important not to get drawn into meaningless arguments about the word of god and its interpretation. The more important argument for ALL to consider is whether or not there's a god to begin with. Argument from scripture (for and against) is no proof at all, it will just have you going round in circles.
GOD? of course there is NO GOD, it is man made virtual friend to keep men calm, happy, controlling women, find-purpose in life, fuck 72 women in heaven, explain anything difficult as GOD's will, all kind of bullshit. There is no GOD.
@yousufj56, The verse in An-Nisa [4:25] says "If you can't marry a good muslim women, then do it with your slaves who are good ones". Islam IS racist. Women takes half men, men takes 72 virgins in heaven while women get zero men. Yoosif, you look idiot and trying to defend your religion.
He said that it was Islam that brought slavery into Africa and that most slaves were imported into the middle east but the truth is that during the time of the prophet Muhamad (pbuh) slavery was wiped out. It was taught that almost every sin you commit will be forgiven if you free a slave. These were for minor sins and rarely for major sins but it occurred a lot. He also taught the arabs to follow your leaders even if they are the blackest of the blacks. Islam is above racism.
@yousufj56, The verse in An-Nisa [4:25] says "If you can't marry a good muslim women, then do it with your slaves who are good ones". Islam IS racist. Women takes half men, men takes 72 virgins in heaven while women get zero men. Yoosif, you look idiot and trying to defend your religion.
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Even though I'd agree with a lot, if not most, of what this guy is saying, I feel I should point out that he is associated with a think tank. That means he's immediately suspect, since think tanks are paid to produce reasons in favour of or against whatever the sponsor wants supported or opposed.
I believe you are totally ignorant about European culture. For one thing you cannot generalise about the whole of Europe because it is made of a number of different cultural backgrounds. I think that the US as a society is terrorised as a nation at the mere mention of the word socialism. Even if this translates, as in the Scandinavian countries, in a health care system 1 billion times better than that of the US. Who told you that freedom of expression did not exist Europe.
I don't know about Scandinavian health care system, but the one in Finland sucks cock. If you want something diagnosed, you go to a private clinic and pay your ass off.
@Sethae greets from poland. you actualy die out here if you dont pay for a life-saving operation. thank god you can buy organs cheap from ukrainians :D
@striveandreceive Political Correctness is pushed the agenda of enslaving people. Once people think that they are politically correct they begin judging others behavior to see if they are politically correct. After that, laws are enforced and people go into slavery
@striveandreceive - If that's your best answer then who would seriously give a fuck what you think? Skandinavian countries like Sweden are being destroyed by Islam. Why? Because delusional, leftist fucktards like you are blinded beyond stupidity to the economic, moral, and societal realities of socialism. No socialist country has ever survived ITSELF. The demographics speak for themselves. But you're too indoctrinated to understand this. You have a DECLINING native population. FAILSAUCE!
@thomaserossi wow take it down a notch mate! but for the balance of dialogue 1. you are a fukctard, Now that out of the way, which of my comment were you replying to cause i posted ages ago. You have no idea whether i am a leftist (which I despise by the way) or anything else. What the fuck does Islam have to do with Scandinavian countries!!?? Get it straight in your head and get your bearings rights mate, because you are trapped in the right vs left hoax that has been imprinted in you.
@striveandreceive - Awwww.... Whats a matter? Does your butt hurt? You're about ignorant.
"What the fuck does Islam have to do with Scandanavian countries!!?"
Seriously? You're that blind? Do you live in a fucking cave Osama? You're the same dipshit who said "a million times better" yet you're so beyond stupid you cannot walk through Malmo. It's impossible because you'll refuse out of hand. Your indoctrination DEMANDS you refuse to walk through Malmo with a Yahmulka.
@thomaserossi You still got it all mixed up in your head...and I couldn't even be bothered to begin to try to untangle things for a person whose arguments are all routed in the nice and easily swallowed concept of "you are a leftist" or "you are Muslim" if you do not agree. You would be funny, if it wasn't that you are pitiful. Just a hint though, life is not all black and white, it's more grey....Good night John-boy 'night Pa, Ma
@FightMarxism I have this image of the of a KKK rally repelte with burning crosses and then them all going round to Bernie Sanders house for a pot-luck supper.
The KKK was created by the racist democrats of the south in order to target republicans so they could gain control of the house & end all of the civil rights laws being past. In the south at that time blacks were republicans & whites were democrats. The 13th Amendment was passed by 100% of republicans & only 23% of democrats & no democrats voted for the 14th Amendment. The first grand wizard of the KKK was honored at the 1868 Democratic National Convention.
Though racism was long associated with the Democratic Party in the US, until that reversed during the '60s and lessened on both sides since, I assure you that racism was always more popular with the political right.
Oh, I guess if you interpret political correctness as that sort of thing, yeah, you're right. It's just that every time I've heard someone complain about political correctness it's because they want to make some comment implying that blacks or hispanics or whatever are bad or inferior in some way. Bringing up slavery every time someone mentions the founding fathers isn't so much politically correct as it is kinda dumb and irrelevant, unless specifically discuss slavery or racism.
Political correctness, diveristy & multiculturalism are all cancers & do nothing but harm society.
How can you have a strong society that does nothing but point out our differences, not our likeness? Humans naturally like being among thier own kind!
I would like to ad that I think that political correctness, diversity and multiculti is stealing us from a history and make us shame on everything, even the good things.
the problem lies in what can be labeled as insensitive though. Hate speech laws in Britain won't allow a Christian to Criticize a muslim's beliefs. Are they so thin skinned? Yet Muslims can be heard yelling what would otherwise be called hate speech against Britain in their mosques and on the streets.
The political correctness he's talking about is based on critical theory & comes from Cultural Marxism & the Frankfurt School which teaches Neo-Marxist sociology and philosophy.
@vendorglobal Yeah, I too wish people were free to be racist assholes.
I've never heard someone complain about political correctness who didn't just want an excuse to be able to say terrible racist shit without being reprimanded for it.
That's the beauty of freedom of speech. If someone says something inaccurate or that you don't like then you are able to argue against it. Political correctness doesn't allow that to happen, anything deemed inappropriate is off limits & therefore can't be argued against. One could easily make racism politically correct, think of Nazi Germany.
I don't think the people who you're deeming "politically correct" thing that free speech shouldn't exist. Free speech goes both ways, though. If someone is a dumb racist shit, others have the freedom to point out that they're a dumb racist shit.
I like to say that Karl Marx was a racist piece of shit but that's not the politically correct thing to say since all of Europe licks his hairy nuts every day. Political correctness would stop someone from being punished for his words but it also wouldn't stop someone else from calling him out on it.
The US labor department endorses idiocy like mandatory minimum wage not because of egalitarian concern for the downtrodden workers, but because the lion's share of their budgets are in support of such policies.
pretorious700 2 weeks ago
Nobody is saying we must flood African countries with mass immigration to make them more multicultural. Nobody is saying we must flood Asian countries with mass immigration to make them more multicultural. Nobody is saying we must flood South American countries with mass immigration to make them more multicultural.
Multiculturalism and mass immigration into White countries and White countries only is GENOCIDE.
Anti racism is a code word for anti White.
Alphaman7100 2 months ago
I'd exclude the Judaic-Christianization of Greco-Roman civilization as a period of enrichment. It may show the promise of enrichment one day, but the enrichment will have to be a reversal, in the grand form, of the Judaic-Christian slave revolt in morality. I'd also exclude the Reformation and the Enlightenment as periods of enrichment.
bxjam85 2 months ago
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bxjam85 2 months ago
I'm willing to take to the streets in fight of political correctness. Why are the left and the politically correct the only ones who are allowed protest for social change? They've fought long and hard for their right to destroy our country and culture. I saw we fight harder and longer to win it back. I see political correctness as no less damaging than fascism. What seems like innocent, if just annoying, social quirks that is political correctness, will soon turn to fascism. Mark my words.
90sJunkie1 4 months ago
@90sJunkie1 They aren't the only ones allowed, merely the only ones that feel aggrieved enough. It is one thing being annoyed and being in the majority, it is another thing when it affects your ability to function. The tables may turn one day and then I'll be arguing for your team.
sqgl 4 months ago
I came here looking for Metallica, not this debate bullshit. Fuckin right wingers and leftists.
jakeisurpimp 6 months ago
Oh, but don't you understand that Blacks and Arabs have a common enemy in the White man? Of course Blacks are going to look over Muslim slavery because of that! ;-) Don't even mention to them Black slave owners in Africa, the South and the Caribbean or how White indentured servants were treated just as badly as slaves.
jaymthegenius 8 months ago
Atheist in a Religoius Nation - the Documentary
In a Christian Nation:
Atheist - God is Dead.
Christian - Lost one.
Christian ignores Atheist.
Muslim Nation:
Atheist - God is dead.
Muslim - BLASPHEMY!
*Fight Breaks Out*
studiousx3 9 months ago
@studiousx3 Don't you mean *bomb goes off* ?
SirGeorge8600 4 months ago
Hanson's comment at the end reminds me of my postgrad supervisor's story of taking a famous visiting critical theorist out shopping. When they came across an optometrist, the renowned Marxist scholar asked the shop assistant for a pair of 'Trotsky's glasses' ... and then whipped out his American Express card to pay for the glasses. My supervisor was very amused by the delicious irony. Such an oft-repeated contradiction between the scholarly left's ideology and their life practices.
angelsoulblade 9 months ago 4
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55gayleswellington96 9 months ago 32
a big part of those who bemoan "political correctness" and "liberalism" (those with hooknoses and 2 passports) have most to loose should it go in the west. they will experience.
zobielamouche1 10 months ago 2
@zobielamouche1 Just call them kikes. We know that is what you really mean.
Cajaquarius 8 months ago
I don't really understand his point. Why is political correctness a bad thing? It's helped our world progress socially in terms of dealing with racism, homophobia and sexism. Rather than analysing the basis of the movement why not judge it on the results, and then surely it's seen as a positive thing?
Pixiesforever7 1 year ago
@Pixiesforever7
I think its the extremes that are being addressed,that &/or it being universally applied
think about the editing of Mark Twain's novels or not being able to address race/religion at all when what is being addressed is the reality (and in many cases anti-racism)
bbchbbd 1 year ago
@bbchbbd Editing Mark Twin is truly PC gone mad because Twain was famously anti-racist and you have to take it into context. Sometimes PC is laziness.
sqgl 4 months ago
@Pixiesforever7 Stand up coedians talking about crackers, spics, niggers and everything offensive under the sun has been what's made us think about the absurdity of racism, sexism, homophobia et al. NOt talking about what troubles the world doesn't work. PC is preventing free expression. Always a bad thing.
356pla 10 months ago 2
hahaha 'lets get on that string bikini and hit the beach.' democracy at its finest
MrTPollitt 1 year ago
@MrTPollitt You get your bikini on then, I don't have man boobs so I'll opt out if you don't mind.
sqgl 4 months ago
Western civilization is an amalgam of both Jerusalem (monotheism & personal moral accountability) and Athens (civic duty & personal political accountability). Jerusalem and Athens for their parts were imperfect in their rudimentary forms; Jerusalem being racialist and Athens diffuse. They moderated each other. Now we are hurtling into secularism, Athens without civic pride and token piety, with its end of nihilism, or fundamentalism, religious nostaligia, which ends in apocalypticism.
andrjsh 1 year ago
Some very good points, I think the implication of this are over-stated. Even within the humanities, this kind of 'political correctness' is marginal and highly criticised.
Subjectivity101 1 year ago
Wise words...I've come to an increased appreciation for Victor Davis Hanson and his work.
However, I sincerely do not believe the light and promise of the Hellenistic world was "enriched" by Jerusalem. Darkened and stultified, yes. What Victor (and other supporters of our so called "Judeo-Christian heritage") fails to realize here, is that Jerusalem is the direct harbinger of Mecca and Medina, and the disaster that came barreling out in the 7th century. You can't have it both ways.
Nishap739 1 year ago
A Republican I can understand and learn from. Amazing. I wish I could see guys like this on Fox News more often! I don't particularly agree with all his points, but he makes himself well understood, in a rational way, and uses great examples. If just all Republicans were this rational..
jwh30385 1 year ago
also... oh the poor poor white heterosexual men.. truly my heart bleeds for them.
Now I'll be honest you can't belong to a single group on this planet without SOMEONE hating you for SOMETHING. But white heterosexual men are not exactly a vulnerable group. In fact they're actually the least vulnerable group in spite of some of them being really butthurt.
Shavarnarak 1 year ago
ENRICHED by Jerusalem?
More like tainted. The advent of Christianity started the darkages REVERSING progress of western civilization and keeping it ignorant for a full millenium.
The west would have been much better off without christianity.
Shavarnarak 1 year ago
@Shavarnarak Yeah, thanks Nietzche.
Halo4Lyf 1 year ago
Pride you took, proud you feel, proud that you felt when you kneel.
Evilrex500 1 year ago
Fuck political correctness fuck progressives and fuck the far left! They are all ruining this country and are the reason why my parents can't find a fucking job! Oh yeah, and fuck all the unions as well!
gamefreak1000000 1 year ago
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MAC365 1 year ago
@gamefreak1000000 The unions are the reason McDonald's can't pay you $1.50 an hour and tell you to work 14 hour days.
jwh30385 1 year ago
@jwh30385 I don't give a shit. It's all a plot for global government and it is fucking up our country. All unions need to die at once. If I could put a thermal detonator in every single union building and activate the main fuse to blow them all up at once, I would do so to save this country from this financial disaster.
gamefreak1000000 1 year ago
@gamefreak1000000 How about you go work in an unsecured work place for 14 hours a day, making a dollar a day, with no breaks, no days off and no job security. Meanwhile I'll go on enjoying my 8 hour work days, overtime pay, lunch break and fair pay check.
jwh30385 1 year ago
@jwh30385 Yeah, but how would you enjoy global government fucking up this country? Unions are the reason why our economy is bad. They're the reason why 80% of small businesses are going under, creating less job oppertunities for everyone. Unions are just a plan for global government plotted by spooky dude (aka George Soros).
gamefreak1000000 1 year ago
@gamefreak1000000 The economy in this country is bad because we have extremely inefficient ways of doing things. Take our healthcare system before the reform. US taxpayers fund the world's most expensive healthcare system, but don't get anything back. We pay twice the amount of money that a universal healthcare system costs, yet we still have to have medical insurance. In many states, the Prison system receives twice the funding of the education system.
jwh30385 1 year ago
@gamefreak1000000 Our healthcare system is a disaster, our immigration system excludes immigrants who want to work and pay taxes, our education system sucks, our entire social welfare system is a joke and our justice system is counter-productive. Yet, pretty much every country with a high standard of living also has strong unions.
jwh30385 1 year ago
@jwh30385 Actually, you're wrong. Hong Kong is actually the wealthiest place in the world and they don't get their wealth from government or unions. They get it by investing in valuables like solar panels and other precious rare metals. They're economically booming because of what they invest in and how much their dollars are worth, not because of unions and other B.S. that you believe in.
Countries such as Greece is failing because of high government spendings, so unions aren't the solution.
gamefreak1000000 1 year ago
@gamefreak1000000 Greece is bankrupt due to unrealistic government spending, and crappy enforcement of taxation. Hong Kong is a very wealthy place, I'm going by standard of living however. Meaning the average Joe's living standards.
jwh30385 1 year ago
@jwh30385 No, Mickey D's can't pay people $1.50/hour because then no one would apply there. They'd be applying at the BK down the street that would have the good sense to offer $8-9/hour starting wages.
Halo4Lyf 1 year ago
@Halo4Lyf Or applying to the BK down the street paying $2 an hour. I see where you're going, employment competition. That works for highly skilled workers, in which there is actual competition for workers.
Your point works great in theory, not in real life.
jwh30385 1 year ago
@jwh30385 If an employer deems that labor is only worth $2/hr to him, then he should be allowed to offer that pay. And he'll get demolished by competition that offers better pay. Plus, it's the laborer's responsibility to make himself more valuable to the employer.
That may sound harsh, but it avoids the evil of what the unions did to GM and Chrysler... where manufacturers become pension programs that occasionally make things on the side.
Halo4Lyf 1 year ago 6
@Halo4Lyf It is usually a priviledged position to be an employer. Look at how much the poorest people get paid for labour in India.
sqgl 4 months ago
@sqgl That's because the poorest people in India have literally no skills. They're interchangeable.
Halo4Lyf 4 months ago
@Halo4Lyf Tha's preciesly my point. You cannot get skills if you do not have resources. When you are stuggling to earn enough to maintain your family you have no time for training.
sqgl 4 months ago
One reason the USA is rich because it exploits the poor. Not only other countries but even its own people. People want to immigrate to USA bacause they would rather be on the side that is exploiting than be exploited. They either do not realise the wealth is very unevenly distributed or their country is so poor that even the lowly minimum wage in USA is worthwhile if they can send remittances home where the exchange rate is good.
sqgl 4 months ago
@sqgl Wealth cannot be distributed, only created and exchanged. Well, not counting charity.
Halo4Lyf 4 months ago
@Halo4Lyf Do you really think a CEO is hundreds of times more "worthy" than a basic wage earner in his own company? That's the ratio. So much for "austerity" measures. Compare that to CEO of Japan Airlines. Yes WEALTH IS UNEVENLY DISTRIBUTED IN USA.
sqgl 4 months ago
@sqgl If it's a privately owned company, the CEO can pay himself whatever he wants. If it's a publically traded company, then his wage is whatever the board authorizes.
You clearly don't understand the concept of property and ownership.
Halo4Lyf 4 months ago
@Halo4Lyf You are right, I do not understand the concept of property and ownership when it comes to water. air, earths atmosphere. I don't undestand why a corporation can evict me from my privately owned land to mine beneath me.. What about you? Do you understand "fractional reserve banking" whereby about 90% of the "money" banks "own" does not even actually exist except as accounting entries? Do you understand that your Reserve Bank is privately owned? And do you condone that?
sqgl 4 months ago
@sqgl Yes, I understand fractional reserve banking - it's probably not very wise. Yes, I know the Federal Reserve is (sort of) privately owned - and I think it's blatantly unconstitutional, since only Congress is authorized to regulate the money supply of the United States. I will NOT ally with those against corporate business, and private property in general, in order to do something about either. A Constitutional Convention will do just fine.
Halo4Lyf 4 months ago
@Halo4Lyf "A Consitutional Convention will do just fine" I take it you mean *the* Constitutional Convention... nice idea but it isn't seving most Americans too well at the moment. More transparency is the key. My parents escaped a communist country so I am not totally Left Wing myself. Privatising prisons was a bad move - at least with government there is a *chance* of transparency. USA has 1% of it's population encarcerated. Many of them mentally ill or pot smokers yet alcohol causes most harm.
sqgl 4 months ago
@sqgl No, I mean *a* Constitutional Convention. As in, an Article V Convention. You're aware that the Constitution provides a means for itself to be amended, right? A handful of amendments is really all that's needed - a balanced budget amendment, an amendment phasing out Federal entitlements, one preventing Congress from delegating regulatory power, things along those lines.
Really, our last problem is how many fucking potheads we have locked up. I couldn't really care any less than I do now.
Halo4Lyf 4 months ago
@Halo4Lyf It has nothing to do with advocating smoking pot or not. I told you: alcohol causes much more harm. Stats here in Australia in 1977 showed 97% of drug-related deaths were from Alcohol & Tobacco, 2 % from Pharmaceuticals, 1% from all of the illicit drugs put together. US is similiar I bet. If you don't care about that, then you are wilfully ignorant of who pulls the strings regarding our laws. We had the Grand Prix in Melbourne and the major sponsor was Fosters beer... is that sanity?
sqgl 4 months ago
@sqgl Here's why: alcohol has well-understood and predictable effects on human physiology that are easily recovered from given a little time. Cannabis, not so much. Therefore, there is such a thing as responsible alcohol consumption. I know, because I myself drink in moderation. I'll even concede that there may be such a thing as smoking pot in moderation, since I have a few friends that do so.
But I still don't want it legalized. If for no other reason than to piss losers like you off.
Halo4Lyf 4 months ago
He gives his agenda away when he only mentions Western Europe's history when talking about progress. The Koreans invented the printing press (not Gutenburg), Indians came up with the "Pythagorean Theorom" long before he did. Our numerals are Arabic etc
sqgl 4 months ago
@Halo4Lyf I agree. Unionism and socialism should be suppressed in my opinion.
bxjam85 2 months ago
"and he'll get demolishd by competition that offers better pay"
IF it is more productive than 2$ an hour
migkillertwo 2 months ago
@jwh30385 - Wrong. It has worked in real life. You bullshit ideas are applied now and they invariably create poverty. How? Wages have NOTHING to do with money. You don't know what money is. You don't know anything about money so all of your arguments concerning money are false. This bullshit idea that you can FORCE someone to pay more than you produce is not only innane, it's stupid. It's actually stupid. It suggests that a man-made law can create something from thin aid - prosperity.
thomaserossi 10 months ago
As just a theory I believe that Political Correctness also extends it hand by creating division between races,sexes etc. by constantly bombarding youth with "oppression curriculum". Uninformed Blacks,Hispanics,Asians and Whites are used to create divide. The muscular class of these races no better but are out numbered.I agree with VDH and I'm AA.Race is played so much for agenda's so much its ridiculous.
Sdiddy810 1 year ago
Political correctness runs rampant across the United States & emanates from sensitive people afraid of truthfully pointing out problems within a society. Tolerance contributes to the success of our society. Political correctness can lead people 2 avoid problem solving head-on and make people avoid actual issues for fear of offending some1. If a group of ppl is relevant 2 a problem & it leads 2 fear from other groups, then ppl should b able 2 express those fears publicly w/o being called bigots.
Firebrandt 1 year ago
@Firebrandt
Unfortunately It's rampant all over Europe & Canada also.
barzouf94 1 year ago
@barzouf94 I was hoping that there was a reason the rest of the world thought us to be ignorant and that I had some hope. Oh well if were fucked might as well spark up and sit back.
Firebrandt 1 year ago
political correctness is glorified masochism!
ashken79 1 year ago
i am muslim..i agree with you.
ashken79 1 year ago
The thing is is people focus too much on race&gender. Instead of looking at a person as an individual, than things like affirmative action shows up. Which hires people based on minority. It's like wait, if we looked at everyone as an individual and not as a specific race or gender, racism wouldn't be an issue. But than people say something like, well racism will never end so we need to make due and try to put a band-aid on an infected wound, which I say makes that person part of the problem.
gutsyt123 1 year ago 2
A great example of a well-intentioned, civilized concept which through implementation reveals an unintentional, even uncivilized consequence.
chh5555 1 year ago
obviously he means chomsky
YamaKazoo 1 year ago
This guy is talking out of his ass. Political correctness wasn't born out of making other parts of the world seem better than us. It was to make ourselves held to account for what we say. It has its faults, but this chicannery.
TheLummer66 1 year ago
@TheLummer66 - Nice try. Your entire argument is based on personal attacks. You've provided ZERO evidence. None. You're so fucked in the head it's impossible for you to think. You call it "chicannery" (misspelled) yet it was YOU who didn't provide one single bit of evidence. You blame and accuse him of everything YOU are guilty of. You don't know shit. You're a liar and a phony. You're so beyond stupid you cannot even make a cogent argument with one single fact. Nothing.
thomaserossi 1 year ago
Great stuff. Unfortunately, it is an all too common fault of people to reject certain principles while at the same time benefitting from and/or encouraging the same principles in their everyday mode of life.
TheRugbyidiot 1 year ago
islam is not a country you muppet, it is a religion, likewise the west is not a religion (well unless you validate credit card worshipping bimbos). political correctness is an over zelous monstocity, but you are a biggoted arsehole and not helping the case
SoldOutSellOut 1 year ago
study the origin of Political Correctness- which is the Frankfurt School = Freudian Marxism to destroy Western values. type in "Frankfurt School" on Youtube
ANDPRY 1 year ago
great talk, i dispise political correctness and the damage it has done on western civilisation, multiculturalism and diversity are also products of this.
trigga1uk 1 year ago
The scientific method and optics where discovered by Muslims in 1000 AD.
"Western Society" hardly even existed then.
AndroidPolitician 1 year ago
@AndroidPolitician also 300 year later, when some muslim dude declare mathematics a work of devil, muslim science was no more.
ilikeyourdaughter 1 year ago
@ilikeyourdaughter
No islamic country rejects math.
If you're talking about how no middle east country is modernizing you can thank you US policy.
in 1953 we overthrew a secular Iran which turned Islamic in 79 and we funded terrorists in Afganinstan turning it from a secular communist state to the hellhole it is now.
Oh and this spread, like how the 79 movement in Iran spread to Egypt and Algeria.
AndroidPolitician 1 year ago
@AndroidPolitician First of all the scientific method was not discovered it was developed. Second, the contributions of Muslims to the advancement of knowledge has as much to with Islam as the contributions by physicists (many of the greatest of which are and were Jews) has to do with Judaism.
fctchk 1 year ago
@fctchk
It kind of does, being muslim in 1000 AD isn't like being jewish now.
Most jewish scientists are agnostic but Alhazen was a devout muslim during a period more theocratic then now and created the scientific method and discovered optics.
And please don't turn this into "how can he be jewish if he's agnostic" it's both an ethnic group and a religion.
AndroidPolitician 1 year ago
@AndroidPolitician
Let me make the point pointblank then so that you can quit sidestepping it: religion of any kind be it voodoo, Islam, Christianity, Hindu or what have you, has nothing to tell science, N O T H I N G. Zip, zilch, nada. If Mr. Alhazen contributed anything it was in spite of Islam (A fetid excrescence of retreaded Judeo/Christianity marinated in camel poop) not thanks to it.
fctchk 1 year ago
@fctchk
I'm not saying Islam was a guiding light, I'm just saying that it's possible to make ground breaking scientific discoveries and not be western at the same time.
Most people leaving comments would like to think otherwise.
AndroidPolitician 1 year ago
@AndroidPolitician
If you wish to claim Muslims, by taking the sword to even greater barbarians than themselves, created pleasant working conditions enabling Mr. Alhazens contemplative moments, that, I might consider.
fctchk 1 year ago
It's a method of controlling people and limiting free speech.
Auggie56 1 year ago
He is mostly right but still accepts the premises of the anti-Westerners (the existence of sexism, for example). By doing that he has already lost the argument.
Regardless, the only answer for all cultures is a combination of economic and political isolationism, cultural nationalism (without isolationism!) and a general geopolitical tolerance.
Do unto others...
rickygervais1776 1 year ago
this isn't even pseudo intellectual, it's just basic stuff that people do, he's speaking "regular english"
political correctness is fairly comfortable in western society, compared to other places, and yes there is a fair bit of "blame one's own culture"
noobler9 1 year ago
That's a lot of pseudo-intellectual crap in 6 minutes.
SpeedRaccoon 1 year ago
All things considered, I think Western culture is the best of all. However, that is a FAR cry from saying that there is nothing to criticize. Many of the problems we have today do result from paradigms that are uniquely "Western" in character. The Enlightenment, for example, proposed mechanical understandings of the material universe that has led to the devaluation and abuse of nature and the resultant climate crises. The moral decline we're seeing right now probably results, in large part,
1r1shCath0l1c 1 year ago
from the fact that we have lost the "fleshly," natural basis for our sense of morality (what with paradigms that subject appearances and experience to mechanical scientific laws, the reduction of the body to a subject for anatomy, the radical detachment of the modern experimenter from what he is observing, etc). Much of this is uniquely modern in character, having sprung up in the last several hundred years. I would say that things such as feminism, multiculturalism, and other such things...
1r1shCath0l1c 1 year ago
are "shadow" phenomena. They are suppressed realities that are resurfacing in symptomatic form. I don't think waving the finger at them, trying to squash them, is the right respone to them. Nor, on the other hand, do I believe that we should CAPITULATE to them. Rather, we should listend to what they are trying to say about us as a culture, and try to reincorporate qualities we have lost or have been lacking, thereby making Western culture even better (rather than "tearing it down").
1r1shCath0l1c 1 year ago
In other words, we get to maintain all of those truly wonderful aspects of Western culture that Dr. Hanson alluded to while also incorporating qualities that have been attenuated by its more problematic aspects. That's the beauty of Western culture -- it can claim as its own what is legitimate and good about any cultural or philosophical system. There are things we can learn from non-Western cultures and other philosophies...again, not so that we can UNDERMINE Western culture, but so that...
1r1shCath0l1c 1 year ago
...we can make it even better.
1r1shCath0l1c 1 year ago
@1r1shCath0l1c Using your logic about seeing the West from non-Western eyes (especially those eyes that have been injured by a Western power), would you then agree that the best way to make women even better is to call them fat, disgusting whores and encourage them to dance the pole? Or to say that blacks are nothing more than chicken-eating criminals who are too lazy to get jobs? Because that's the criticism of the West you're talking about--not constructive, but destructive--Victimology 101.
milesbennettdyson 1 year ago
@milesbennettdyson The criticism that the shadow phenomena I mentioned often does take on that character, yes. What I'm trying to propose is a constructive, reason-based criticism that tries to understand what they are saying to us, without either condoning their excesses or, on the other hand, condemning them with undue harshness.
1r1shCath0l1c 1 year ago
@1r1shCath0l1c Michel De Certeau talks at length in his "Writing of History" that there is no one actual history--only a series of narratives interwoven for particular ends at particular times, which can be rearranged at any point. I'm not sure if Certeau attempts to show these alternating historical narratives have any curative force in the advancement of western culture, but at the very least it would explain in greater detail the idea you're discussing here.
milesbennettdyson 1 year ago
@milesbennettdyson Thanks for mentioning it -- I'll put that on my to-read list!
God bless you.
1r1shCath0l1c 1 year ago
@1r1shCath0l1c "Writing of History" may be a bit long, but it's worth it. Certeau's much shorter text on modern culture's multifaceted nature, "Culture in the Plural," is an easier read, though it may not touch specifically on religious behavior. Certeau was a nonconformist Jesuit, so many of his writings go back to the church; "The Mystic Fable" devotes an entire volume just to medieval mysticism and its modern effects in society.
milesbennettdyson 1 year ago
The politically-correct Left are funny folk. All property is theft (except when it's theirs), all people are of equal worth (except the ones they want to constantly guilt-trip for the sins of the fathers) and all points of view are valid and worthy of protection (except those they don't like).
Very unequal these 'Equality' people!
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TheDustpile 1 year ago
Even while attending college, and supporting various "left wing' causes, I never felt like giving two shits to political correctness. It just doesn't sit right, no matter what side of the fence you're on.
SouthernWhiteTrash 1 year ago
@SouthernWhiteTrash True, and as a visible minority, it's VERY demeaning and makes me feel excluded in a way. It creates barriers between whities and darkies =P
AshillaBeige 1 year ago
in a couple of words: fuck ploitical correct bullshit. Die you motherfuckers
biggerturtle 1 year ago
america is the best but it still is majorly fucked
patrickledford420 1 year ago
That was very interesting. Thanks for posting.
freeheretic111 1 year ago
political correctness is merely a form of cultural marxism, it exists precisely to destroy the existing prevailing culture. And it is working, America is already a socialist state, people are increasingly taxed to finance unproductive elements... America is also becoming a nation of imbeciles (because what the public education curriculum amounts to is planned ignorance) that diverts much attention to log rolling "diversity" issues while extolling the "wonders" of multiculturalism.
lictor313 1 year ago 2
@lictor313 ...continued, in other words, America is committing suicide- through mass third world immigration, a hard left leaning and insane mass media, and the progressive defacement of the constitution and indeed Western Civilization, it will become another Brazil, a failed state where all those hate crazed "diversity is our strength" mongers would never want to live in.
lictor313 1 year ago
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@lictor313 Political Correctness is pushed the agenda of enslaving people. Once people think that they are politically correct they begin judging others behavior to see if they are politically correct. After that, laws are enforced and people go into slavery
hstryshows 1 year ago
@lictor313 Your the shit lictor313, and im not fucking with you lol
pulse2727 1 year ago
Its true many cultures try to trash the USA for being the USA but emulate its lifestyle ideals. There is no perfect culture that operates on a large population base.
LabRat6619 1 year ago
White people have never done anything wrong-----its colored people's problem for being so stupid-----
just kidding-----I think the real political correctness is---I'm rich and don't you dare challenge that----I'm your employer--you're my slave-----I own you and your family so pay your dues!
metalreign81 1 year ago
@metalreign81 That was not the point being made in the video.
totheman 1 year ago
@umhalil oh youre white trash then,most anti zionists are and bitter muslim trash
wdsftygt 1 year ago
@umhalil you look like shit ,he is more intelligent then you could dream of being ,you islamic 3rd world parasite
wdsftygt 1 year ago
Very interesting......thanks !
JPGiardina 1 year ago
google Doe's Account, its mindblowing.
twarks144 1 year ago
Whiing about PC, is this guy out step. People have been whining about PC for two decades. It also helped the US high standard of living thanks to a big fertile continent full of resources with weak friendly neighbors. He is just repeating Limbo's rants.
jakefree25 1 year ago
@jakefreak, Did you eat paint chips as a child or is it genetic?
FreiMarienburg 1 year ago
'The Attempted Murder of God" - Google it!
byScrooby 1 year ago
What Inclusive times we live in!
MOBO fights against racism! So much so that black artists stayed away from 'too white' Glasgow when it was hosted there!
Avoiding whites = anti-racist?!
Music and radical Left politics merge beautifully in this video: UNITE AGAINST [PUBLIC] FASCISM! (THE BNP IS JUST
THE TIP OF THE WHITE RACIST ICEBERG!)
TheDustpile 1 year ago
@TheDustpile yeah there are extremists at the ends of every movement., so what?
jakefree25 1 year ago
D'oh ! A few typos from me there. Still, the logic of the argument has nothing to do with it's proponent (just as well, in my case!) : )
rasnus2 1 year ago
That's better; I though t you were leaning on the keyboard back there. Just kiddin'. I agree that htere are all sorts of absurdities in all sorts of scriptures, but I also think it's important not to get drawn into meaningless arguments about the word of god and its interpretation. The more important argument for ALL to consider is whether or not there's a god to begin with. Argument from scripture (for and against) is no proof at all, it will just have you going round in circles.
rasnus2 1 year ago
GOD? of course there is NO GOD, it is man made virtual friend to keep men calm, happy, controlling women, find-purpose in life, fuck 72 women in heaven, explain anything difficult as GOD's will, all kind of bullshit. There is no GOD.
xxxxmuslim 1 year ago
@yousufj56, The verse in An-Nisa [4:25] says "If you can't marry a good muslim women, then do it with your slaves who are good ones". Islam IS racist. Women takes half men, men takes 72 virgins in heaven while women get zero men. Yoosif, you look idiot and trying to defend your religion.
xxxxmuslim 1 year ago 7
Waman lam yastatiAA minkum tawlan an yankiha almuhsanati almuminati famin ma malakat aymanukum min fatayatikumu almuminati waAllahu aAAlamu bieemanikum baAAdukum min baAAdin fainkihoohunna biithni ahlihinna waatoohunna ojoorahunna bialmaAAroofi muhsanatin ghayra masafihatin wala muttakhithati akhdanin faitha ohsinna fain atayna bifahishatin faAAalayhinna nisfu ma AAala almuhsanati mina alAAathabi thalika liman khashiya alAAanata minkum waan tasbiroo khayrun lakum waAllahu ghafoorun raheemun
xxxxmuslim 1 year ago
He said that it was Islam that brought slavery into Africa and that most slaves were imported into the middle east but the truth is that during the time of the prophet Muhamad (pbuh) slavery was wiped out. It was taught that almost every sin you commit will be forgiven if you free a slave. These were for minor sins and rarely for major sins but it occurred a lot. He also taught the arabs to follow your leaders even if they are the blackest of the blacks. Islam is above racism.
yousufj56 1 year ago
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@yousufj56, The verse in An-Nisa [4:25] says "If you can't marry a good muslim women, then do it with your slaves who are good ones". Islam IS racist. Women takes half men, men takes 72 virgins in heaven while women get zero men. Yoosif, you look idiot and trying to defend your religion.
xxxxmuslim 1 year ago
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Waman lam yastatiAA minkum tawlan an yankiha almuhsanati almuminati famin ma malakat aymanukum min fatayatikumu almuminati waAllahu aAAlamu bieemanikum baAAdukum min baAAdin fainkihoohunna biithni ahlihinna waatoohunna ojoorahunna bialmaAAroofi muhsanatin ghayra masafihatin wala muttakhithati akhdanin faitha ohsinna fain atayna bifahishatin faAAalayhinna nisfu ma AAala almuhsanati mina alAAathabi thalika liman khashiya alAAanata minkum waan tasbiroo khayrun lakum waAllahu ghafoorun raheemun
xxxxmuslim 1 year ago
the feminit wimyn don't even recognise Western Culture as a product of the endeavours of men but rather of wimyn "Herstory"
shazam20007 1 year ago
What language are you speaking?
Shawnruss 1 year ago
I love our western white culture. Its been the fruit of knowledge and the light of the world.
RoadlessPath 2 years ago
@roadlessPath
You speak like a christian....
Shawnruss 1 year ago
I'am an Atheist with a judeo-christian enlightment culture.
RoadlessPath 1 year ago
Can you explain what a "judeo-christian enlightenment culture" means or is for me?
Shawnruss 1 year ago
drink up folks !! nice dose of neo-secular bullshit for ya'
rockybottomseed 2 years ago
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Even though I'd agree with a lot, if not most, of what this guy is saying, I feel I should point out that he is associated with a think tank. That means he's immediately suspect, since think tanks are paid to produce reasons in favour of or against whatever the sponsor wants supported or opposed.
Eggball1 2 years ago
I believe you are totally ignorant about European culture. For one thing you cannot generalise about the whole of Europe because it is made of a number of different cultural backgrounds. I think that the US as a society is terrorised as a nation at the mere mention of the word socialism. Even if this translates, as in the Scandinavian countries, in a health care system 1 billion times better than that of the US. Who told you that freedom of expression did not exist Europe.
striveandreceive 2 years ago 4
Yes these people like Hanson generalize to a huge degree.
jakefree25 1 year ago
@striveandreceive
I don't know about Scandinavian health care system, but the one in Finland sucks cock. If you want something diagnosed, you go to a private clinic and pay your ass off.
Sethae 1 year ago
@Sethae greets from poland. you actualy die out here if you dont pay for a life-saving operation. thank god you can buy organs cheap from ukrainians :D
Dziuravy 1 year ago
@striveandreceive Political Correctness is pushed the agenda of enslaving people. Once people think that they are politically correct they begin judging others behavior to see if they are politically correct. After that, laws are enforced and people go into slavery
hstryshows 1 year ago
@striveandreceive where are you from?
perdedor3571 1 year ago
@striveandreceive WOW 1 billion times better, Im moving to Europe.
pulse2727 1 year ago 4
@pulse2727 Why?
Halo4Lyf 1 year ago
@Halo4Lyf I was being sarcastic good buddy. Not to slight Europe its beautiful I love it.
pulse2727 1 year ago
@striveandreceive - If that's your best answer then who would seriously give a fuck what you think? Skandinavian countries like Sweden are being destroyed by Islam. Why? Because delusional, leftist fucktards like you are blinded beyond stupidity to the economic, moral, and societal realities of socialism. No socialist country has ever survived ITSELF. The demographics speak for themselves. But you're too indoctrinated to understand this. You have a DECLINING native population. FAILSAUCE!
thomaserossi 1 year ago
@thomaserossi wow take it down a notch mate! but for the balance of dialogue 1. you are a fukctard, Now that out of the way, which of my comment were you replying to cause i posted ages ago. You have no idea whether i am a leftist (which I despise by the way) or anything else. What the fuck does Islam have to do with Scandinavian countries!!?? Get it straight in your head and get your bearings rights mate, because you are trapped in the right vs left hoax that has been imprinted in you.
striveandreceive 1 year ago
@striveandreceive - Awwww.... Whats a matter? Does your butt hurt? You're about ignorant.
"What the fuck does Islam have to do with Scandanavian countries!!?"
Seriously? You're that blind? Do you live in a fucking cave Osama? You're the same dipshit who said "a million times better" yet you're so beyond stupid you cannot walk through Malmo. It's impossible because you'll refuse out of hand. Your indoctrination DEMANDS you refuse to walk through Malmo with a Yahmulka.
I dare you!
thomaserossi 1 year ago
@thomaserossi You still got it all mixed up in your head...and I couldn't even be bothered to begin to try to untangle things for a person whose arguments are all routed in the nice and easily swallowed concept of "you are a leftist" or "you are Muslim" if you do not agree. You would be funny, if it wasn't that you are pitiful. Just a hint though, life is not all black and white, it's more grey....Good night John-boy 'night Pa, Ma
striveandreceive 1 year ago
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striveandreceive 2 years ago
Racism is rooted directly on the left.
FightMarxism 2 years ago 2
@FightMarxism how do you figure that
pvuf431 2 years ago
It's based on their long history with the KKK.
FightMarxism 2 years ago
@FightMarxism I have this image of the of a KKK rally repelte with burning crosses and then them all going round to Bernie Sanders house for a pot-luck supper.
pvuf431 2 years ago
The KKK was created by the racist democrats of the south in order to target republicans so they could gain control of the house & end all of the civil rights laws being past. In the south at that time blacks were republicans & whites were democrats. The 13th Amendment was passed by 100% of republicans & only 23% of democrats & no democrats voted for the 14th Amendment. The first grand wizard of the KKK was honored at the 1868 Democratic National Convention.
KenMacMillan 2 years ago 3
The racist left is extensive but here's a short article on it.
tysknews. com/Depts/pcism/sad_history.htm
KenMacMillan 2 years ago
Though racism was long associated with the Democratic Party in the US, until that reversed during the '60s and lessened on both sides since, I assure you that racism was always more popular with the political right.
darkmiles22 1 year ago
Oh, I guess if you interpret political correctness as that sort of thing, yeah, you're right. It's just that every time I've heard someone complain about political correctness it's because they want to make some comment implying that blacks or hispanics or whatever are bad or inferior in some way. Bringing up slavery every time someone mentions the founding fathers isn't so much politically correct as it is kinda dumb and irrelevant, unless specifically discuss slavery or racism.
BenkaiDebussy 2 years ago
the world needs more george carlins
heroinhero69 2 years ago
Amen to that!
FightMarxism 2 years ago
FINALLY someone speaks out about the MUSLIM SLAVE TRADE!Excellent video!
kickfostermac 2 years ago 3
Political correctness, diveristy & multiculturalism are all cancers & do nothing but harm society.
How can you have a strong society that does nothing but point out our differences, not our likeness? Humans naturally like being among thier own kind!
flyboymd82 2 years ago 4
I would like to ad that I think that political correctness, diversity and multiculti is stealing us from a history and make us shame on everything, even the good things.
RoadlessPath 2 years ago 12
the problem lies in what can be labeled as insensitive though. Hate speech laws in Britain won't allow a Christian to Criticize a muslim's beliefs. Are they so thin skinned? Yet Muslims can be heard yelling what would otherwise be called hate speech against Britain in their mosques and on the streets.
Perktube1 2 years ago
Rev. Wright was praising Islam? Makes me think twice about Obama, who has been so influenced by Wright, among others.
Perktube1 2 years ago 2
@perktube1: might be interesting to research the relationship between wright and louis farrakhan.
AlanCom1 2 years ago 2
This whole speech is extremely informative. I recomend that everyone watch it.
KenMacMillan 2 years ago 14
The political correctness he's talking about is based on critical theory & comes from Cultural Marxism & the Frankfurt School which teaches Neo-Marxist sociology and philosophy.
FightMarxism 2 years ago 4
Yes, that documentary is on Youtube and gives precise inside. :-)
RoadlessPath 2 years ago 2
Political correctness a giant of our time, a disease that needs a cure.
vendorglobal 2 years ago 29
@vendorglobal Yeah, I too wish people were free to be racist assholes.
I've never heard someone complain about political correctness who didn't just want an excuse to be able to say terrible racist shit without being reprimanded for it.
BenkaiDebussy 2 years ago
That's the beauty of freedom of speech. If someone says something inaccurate or that you don't like then you are able to argue against it. Political correctness doesn't allow that to happen, anything deemed inappropriate is off limits & therefore can't be argued against. One could easily make racism politically correct, think of Nazi Germany.
FightMarxism 2 years ago 3
I don't think the people who you're deeming "politically correct" thing that free speech shouldn't exist. Free speech goes both ways, though. If someone is a dumb racist shit, others have the freedom to point out that they're a dumb racist shit.
BenkaiDebussy 2 years ago
I like to say that Karl Marx was a racist piece of shit but that's not the politically correct thing to say since all of Europe licks his hairy nuts every day. Political correctness would stop someone from being punished for his words but it also wouldn't stop someone else from calling him out on it.
FightMarxism 2 years ago 2