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Political Correctness an Orewellian nightmare
Nov 16, 2005

Political correctness is a right wing attempt to confuse the public with feined sensitivity. Making a list of acceptable terms and throwing away your membership card in the KKK does not change the actions of these people. They are still working towards only their own selfish needs. How much money can one group have?  We live in a terrifying world that values money over human life. It makes me sick. It should make us all sick. It should make us demand change.  But we don't even know how to talk about it anymore. 

Political correctness is the ultimate tool for conformity. When there is conformity, people stop thinking. When you are given a list of socially acceptable words, you no longer have to think about what to say. Most importantly, you no longer have to think.


Political correctness seemed like a good idea. Choose words that the majority agree upon and only use those words. These words appeared to clear up any offensive language. Use only the "correct" terminolgy or you were ostracized in polite conversation. The shock of hearing a word like nigger or wetback or faget was turned up a notch, rightly so. If anything good came out of this tangled mess of words it was the awareness of our language. An awareness that caused us to really hear what we were saying. But it ended there. We changed the way we spoke and then decided that we no longer had to think about it. We no longer had to think about how we would put words together. 

Orwell tells us that when our language begins to decline, so does our civiliazation. Language is a measure of the society. As our language weakens and breaks down, so will our society.  Our own president has the vocabulary of an eighth grader! Most sports figures and actors have a hard time forming a thought in front of a reporter. These are our role models, no wonder our children can no longer think. Most of my college freshman do not even know the word rhetoric when they walk into my class. They have very limited vocabulary and most have never read a novel all the way through.  This is digraceful. I am ashamed of America. What is going on?  Our sites are no longer set on education. Thus, the begin of the decline of America, begins with the decline of language then education, then society. 

If we do not change the way we speak = think, then we will not survive. We forget that being a powerful nation does not guarantee we will continue as a successful nation.  Even Rome fell. 

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