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Political correctness has gone wild The San Luis Obispo Tribune A firestorm erupted over a costume picture that resulted in a public apology. The picture I saw had a bunch of kids in some pretty funny costumes. I did not see anything that degraded a gender, race or religion. Perhaps one of the complainers could ...

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Political correctness has gone wild - The San Luis Obispo Tribune

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Political correctness is not only attacking our First Amendment and attempting to destroy our ability to communicate, it is putting the lives of Americans in jeopardy.

There are politically correct illnesses such as AIDS and breast cancer.

AIDS is not like, for instance, prostate cancer because a specific act must be committed before you contract AIDS.

A study by the New England Journal of Medicine suggests that diseases such as AIDS and breast cancer have strong political lobbies, such as the Red Ribbon campaign and covering everything and everybody in pink, and receive more federal money.

Dr. Ernie Bodai, a surgeon from California, got a special stamp issued that raised $50 million to fight breast cancer, which is laudatory. But he has been unable to win a similar prostate cancer stamp. He stated, The prostate cancer community is 10 years behind the breast cancer groups in terms of being acknowledged and receiving funds from the National Institute of Health. Hopefully, since this injustice occurred, he was able to receive that stamp.

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Prostate cancer strikes more men than breast cancer strikes women every year. The latest figures I have in prostate cancer 235,000, breast cancer 215,000 incidence rate per 100,000 is 172.3 to breast cancer 135.1.

Political correctness took hold when Obama was first elected and made his apology tour in the MIddle East, refusing to acknowledge that America is the greatest nation on earth. Everything is relative, is how he related to his country. Now on our campuses, some even refuse to use male or female or anything gender specific. God help us if they begin running the country.

Oh, was I allowed to say God?

Paul Dici

Ellwood City

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Political correctness even infiltrates realm of ilnesses - New Castle News

Tell the big wigs at the Savannah Morning News to the let the Vox Populi have an entire page to itself.

If we went by the old clich that if you cant say something nice, dont say nothing at all, Vox Populi would cease to exist.

Im all for a toll bridge on to Tybee Island. That way, every time one of those pretentious people wants to come into Savannah, they can pay to come in and pay to go back home.

I hear so many negative things in the Vox Populi. I would just like to wish everyone that reads this to have a wonderful and blessed day. God bless all of you.

It is pathetic in todays world that a grown person cannot get over being called a name. This is not second grade, people. Grow up.

We in the United States should be proud with President Trump pulling out of the Paris environmental accords. We are on the same level as Syria and Nicaragua.

Pence and Trump, Tweedledee and Tweedledum.

If Kathy Griffin is the canary in the coal mine, then the American people have spoken. They dont want to have anything to do with her or so-called free speech.

The zoning issue regarding Cumberland Island is so depressingly familiar. Nature loses out to development in every case it seems. Georgia wont realize what it lost until its gone.

Liberalism and political correctness are proving to be the downfall of our republic.

When if ever can we declare America is great again?

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Vox Populi: 'Liberalism and political correctness are proving to be the downfall of our republic.' - Savannah Morning News

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Maybe we should have a Ramadan Alert. Every time this holy season comes up on the calendar, the attacks by the Jihadists increase.

This year, Ramadan began with a bang---actually several of them, as a number of Christians in Egypt were killed on their way to a monastery. On 5/26/17, they were murdered in cold blood by Islamic Jihadists who asked them to renounce Jesus Christ or die. The Christians refused---God bless them---and they were murdered for it.

Gary Bauer (Special Alert, 6/5/17) notes that about 150 people worldwide have been killed since Ramadan began on May 26. Bauer defines Ramadan as the time: when the Muslim faithful believe Allah handed down the first verses of the Koran to Muhammad.

Why are we now hearing about an increased number of attacks in the West? Robert Spencer, best-selling author on all things Islamic, told me in a radio interview that its because there are now more Muslims in the West.

I asked Spencer of Jihadwatch.org for a statement about political correctness and the war against Islamic Jihadists. He emailed me: Certainly the politically correct unwillingness to deal honestly with the motivating ideology behind the jihad threat hamstrings our ability to respond to that threat. Governments all over the West assume many Islamic institutions are moderate when they are anything but, but it would be Islamophobic to consider the evidence of that fact.

I also asked him about Ramadan and why theres so much violence during that time. He wrote me: Ramadan is the sacred month in which Muslims fast during the day and redouble their efforts to please Allah. Since warfare against unbelievers is presented in the Quran as a divine command, Ramadan sees more jihad violence than the rest of the year (which sees plenty).

The amazing thing about the Islamic Jihadist threat is the seemingly willful blindness on the part of so many in the West to see it. The radical Muslims can do anything and say, This is for Allah or Allahu Akbar, which they often do, and the willfully blind Westerners will say theres no connection between Islam and the killing. They dont acknowledge that its the Jihadists understanding of Islam that is the problem.

Spencer also told me: There are in the Quran 100 verses advocating jihad. They do not all explicitly advocate violence, but the only context in which the Quran discusses jihad is warfare against unbelievers.

A few years ago, I interviewed Andrew McCarthy, the prosecutor who put away the blind sheik for the first attempted blowing up of the World Trade Center, in 1993.

At the time, McCarthy noted a disturbing little trend---the initial voicing of the politically correct notion that Islam per se (at least the jihadists interpretation of it) had nothing to do with their violence, while they repeated the mantra, Islam is a religion of peace.

McCarthy told me: Now that seemed at the time, I thought, to be a harmless fiction because, whatever the government was saying in Washington and even whatever the government was saying on the steps of the courthouse, we were not prevented inside the courtroom from showing exactly why the terrorists committed the acts that they committed. We were never stopped from showing the nexus between Islamic ideology, Islamic scripture and Islamic terror. So whatever the government was saying outside the courtroom was a bunch of noise and propaganda, as far as I was concerned. But over time, this harmless fiction has grown to be a big problem, which today handcuffs us from dealing with a genuine threat.

McCarthy added, It started, I think, in their minds as a harmless fiction which was designed not to alienate our natural allies in the Islamic world, that is, pro-Western, pro-American Muslims who we dont want to drive into the arms of the bad guys, and there are hundreds of millions of [Muslims]. But there is a snowball effect, an avalanche effectYou keep doing this sort of stuff over the years and then the next thing you do is youre purging everything that Americans need to know about Islamic ideology. Youre taking Islam off the table, even though what any basic book of good intelligence, good warfare, good law enforcement would tell you is, its important to know what the other guy thinks so that you can anticipate what hell do next.

Today, that harmless fiction has grown, and it continues to blind many in the West. In the eyes of many liberals, Islamaphobia is worse than radical Islam. But Todd Starnes of Fox News (6/4/17) notes: You can't destroy the Muslim jihadists with candlelight vigils and benefit concerts.

May the true God keep us safe and spare us from political correctness.

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Political Correctness Handcuffs Us in the War Against Islamic Jihad - Townhall

Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Meyer joined Steve Doocy on "Fox & Friends" this morning to react toSaturday night's terror attack in London, in which seven people were killed and 48 others injured.

Meyer said this reinforces the need for the U.S. to take the fight to ISIS, which has claimed responsibility for the horrific terror attack.

"This is going to continue until we do something to stop it," Meyer said. "You can't go in your house and hide."

Meyer said we should be thankful as a nation that we have a president like Donald Trump who recognizes the threat.

"We have a man there who is not a bureaucrat ... who's going to be there to protect our country and puts our country first," Meyer said.

He said that terrorists are trying to change our way of life, but they underestimate the resiliency of the American people.

"You've got plenty of men and women who will wear the nation's cloth and who are willing to go over and do this a**-kicking that needs to be done," Meyer said.

He argued that political correctness impedes our ability to combat radical Islamic terror.

"The last administration wouldn't even call this radical Islam," Meyer said. "This isn't a war on Muslims, Christians. It's not a war on one religion. This is a war on terrorism."

"It's time to get busy."

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Medal of Honor Recipient: Political Correctness Hurts Us in Fight Against Terror - Fox News Insider

A deadly substance called PCP (politically correct person) is spreading through American college campuses once again, but this time at even higher rate. This phenomenon hasnt been an issue since the 1960s where American socialists within their communist party line began to be egalitarian with their politics.

Pretty much that is when far left principles began the course for an equal society. Opening the doors for those who follow the phrase all men (and women) are created equal and interpreting it as a law.

The Declaration of Independence was written to separate from Great Britain; it is not a law. The law we do follow is the Bill of Rights, democracy, a republic for which we stand not for communism or for socialism.

All in all, the politically correct party would soon fully grasp America and find its way into the universities during the late 80s and follow through in the 90s.

Fast forward to 2017, ever not-funny comedian Stephen Colbert was trending on twitter for his hysterical rant towards President Donald Trump, leaving many on both sides of the political platform to yell out political correctness. However, most people arent familiar with the phrases history or the effect its had today.

Within America, the term PCP kept coming up, where it had turned radicals into socialist and communist groups. Debra Schultz, outspoken author of To Reclaim a Legacy of Diversity, said in her book, throughout the 1970s and 1980s, the New Left, feminists, and progressives used their term politically correct ironically, as a guard against their own orthodoxy in social change efforts.

The New Left in Schultz time was the result of some of the 1960 radical students that had become professors and brought new agenda in mind.

NY Times reporter Richard Bernstein gave spotlight to the term PCP that hit universities, and said, the P.C.Ps themselves, there is a large body of belief in academia and elsewhere that a cluster of opinions about race, ecology, feminism, culture and foreign policy defines a kind of correct attitude toward the problems of the world, a sort of unofficial ideology of the university.

Bernstein went on to describe how conservatives and classical liberals took the phrase as a satirical jab. They believed the PC agenda would only pressure those who wouldnt conform to the new curriculum and close debate at whatever cost, thus, hurt students along the process.

A thin line was made between being politically correct and being an extremist.

The University of Texas executed the politically correct process with a Writing on Difference program that would highlight real-life concerns about students. Unsurprisingly, UC Berkeley also followed suit, at the time, where they held a Political Correctness and Cultural Studies conference on changing up their scholarships for non-white students.

Changes that seemed as a great step towards creating bonds with all cultures were the gravestone of academic orthodoxy.

In a different case in Stanford University, a student named Amanda Kemp campaigned to eliminate a Western Civilization course. Kemp stated, We, the non-Western-Europeans, have no greatness, no culture, no explanations, no beauty, perhaps no humanity.

Triggered, Kemp believed the Western Civilization course was unfair to minorities, women, and the LGBTQ community.

One can argue, that at the time those three groups werent really represented and she was fighting for their voice; however, wanting to remove a course just because it seemed unfair was a ridiculous thing to campaign against.

In spite of the PC Culture appearing compelling to students, administrators, and faculty (many of whom were ex 1960s radicals), political correctness took a petrifying turn. In late December 1990 the Chicago Tribunereported, Groups of PCPs have disrupted classes, prevented speakers from being heard, burned controversial publications, bullied professors into changing course content.

Wow, what a coincidence. The report from that year reminds me of other college campuses shutting down events in this day and age.

Chicago Tribune reporter Joan Beck, was giving insight about President Bushs U.S. Secretary of Education Assistant, Michael Williams. Williams accused college scholarships of violating the 1964 Civil Rights Act towards minorities, in which PC student and faculty agreed with his outrageous claim.

On some campuses, charges of being politically incorrect can get a professor dismissed, endanger a college newspaper editor`s job, force a student out of university housing or sentence an offender to attend sensitivity training seminars suggestive of Red China, Beck said. Fears of such charges have made it virtually impossible to talk about some issues altogether.

The fear of backlash that Beck reported in the 90s still stands to this day.

A report in 1991 from NY Times writer Robert McFadden, stated, After a racial incident on campus two years ago, Stanford University adopted a code prohibiting racially offensive speech. Since then, 100 colleges and universities have passed similar codes

The article went on to explain that the debate over political correctness will grow because of advocates of change and advocates of tradition who have evenly risen. McFadden believed American education along with free speech and equal opportunity were at risk.

And so, isnt free speech and American education under attack now?

Furthermore, the Chicago Tribune in 1991 reported on another PC concern. Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities (at the time) Lynne Cheney was concerned with many professors using arts and humanities as political tools. A case she cited was of a professor in the University of Texas who abused their power by indoctrinating their freshman students with their feminist beliefs.

The course was supposed to be a required basic writing skills class for freshman.

Cheney stated, intolerance in the form of political correctness is most rampant on the campuses of major resource universities, which have become increasingly insulated against the rest of the society the best way to counter the problem is through increased media attention and public awareness of the debate over the issue.

Well, PCPs of the past, meet the PC Police of today.

In 2015 at the University of Missouri, protests broke out after alleged melodramatic hate crimes in campus. The result was ugly.

Heat Street and National Review reviewed 7, 400 emails that revealed an overwhelming loss of support from deep-rooted sports fans, donors, and alumni. The emails werent deleted nor were the computers sabotaged. However, most emails mentioned parents/family members of UM students wanted nothing to do with Mizzou, including talks of transferring them to other schools.

In other emails students felt they were left high and dry.

The protests led to the resignation of University of Missouri President Tim Wolfe, Chancellor Bowen Loftin stepped down from his position, in May of 2016 athletic donations fell 72 percent, and since the events of 2015 freshmen enrollment decreased 35 percent.

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Mayhem erupted as those groups violently attacked fans of Yiannopoulos and vandalized local shops. Some students claimed he was going to spew his hate speech towards Berkeley students.

They have kept protesting towards speakers of different opinions.

Yet, isnt sharing different ideas what the college experience is all about? Even veteran free speech advocate who was a legit free speech advocate of the 1960s, Lynne Hollander Savio, was saddened to see Berkeley affiliated with violence and denying free speech instead of promoting it.

Above all, political correctness doesnt correct anything. It has been an atrocious issue for the past 27 years. The PC culture has only harmed college campuses and society by dividing us. It has undone any progress of unity to get along with one another, despite their personal beliefs. From college campus to your close friends, to my beloved satirical comedy, being a preposterous censoring puerile doesnt create awareness or harmony.

Modern Educayshun is a vision of what hypersensitivity would look like in the near future, written and directed by Neel Kolhatkur.

Modern Educayshun or Education? You choose.

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We keep arguing about a proposed travel ban, but in checking our own history, we knew how to manage immigration.

In the 1800s, we had massive immigration. We screened people on Ellis Island from health to their politics. Undesirables were sent back.

Our policy then was more common sense. In 1921, we put a moratorium on all immigration. We had to stem the tide of the flood of immigrants to allow the others to assimilate.

We had enclaves of various ethnicities like "Little Italy," but these people saw the opportunity America offered and they were eager to learn our language, culture, and way of life. People were ashamed to be on welfare, but now they come here and expect it. None of the immigrants coming here today cares to assimilate. Muslims have been at war with the United States since President Thomas Jefferson fought the pirates at Tripoli.

Political correctness is our downfall. Like Europe, we will commit national suicide just to prove we are not prejudiced. How dumb; how sad.

Dale Lauffer

Columbus

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I hope youre taking to heart, Raheem, Mayor Siddiq Khans admonition not to be alarmed by what youre seeing, Gaffney sarcastically told SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam.

This is, unfortunately, a situation in which youre right to be alarmed, he said in a more serious tone. I think most Brits have the good sense to know that what theyre doing what their government is doing, what their law enforcement agencies have been doing, and frankly what the British public itself has been doing mostly has been contributing to the danger that theyre now confronting.

Gaffney warned against the danger of pretending that what he prefers to call sharia supremacism the aggressive desire to impose Islamic law on Western nations is not a problem, or is at worst a manageable challenge.

What I really believe has happened now, and what I think this most recent attack bears out and more to the point, the information that has come out subsequent to it is that there are something on the order of 23,000 jihadists that are now being monitored in some form or fashion by Her Majestys government, he said.

This is not a terrorism problem. These certainly arent incidents involving lone wolves, as theyre called. This is an insurgency, Gaffney declared. I think the British people need to be alive to that danger and alarmed by it.

Kassam praised British intelligence and law enforcement for their work but said it was disturbing that some very obvious signs of trouble such as a fitness center used by one of the London Bridge attackers that is actually named after the ummah, or global community of Islam seem to be overlooked in the name of political correctness.

The problem on both sides of the pond, Im sorry to say, is that our governments have for most of the years since 9/11, especially been in engaged in a practice that Andy McCarthy has called willful blindness, Gaffney said, referring to the former prosecutor who worked on the first World Trade Center bombing, and now writes for National Review. Its actually gotten to the point hes upped it to compulsory blindness.

I think thats a very apt term because if you are obliged by government policy to look the other way at red flags and the Ummah gym might be one of them, but certainly mosques that are incubating jihadism every day, that are associated with the Muslim Brotherhood, that are funded by the Saudis and the Qataris, that are known patrons of this sharia supremacist phenomenon if youre not allowed to understand those, let alone contend with them effectively in what a counterinsurgency strategy requires, which is action at the local level, well, guess what: this is going to continue to metastasize, he warned.

When our enemies and Im talking here most especially about enemies within perceive us behaving this way, they dont think of it as, Oh, there they go being politically correct! or diversity sensitive or multiculturally minded. They see it as submission. And what submission induces them to do, doctrinally under sharia, is to become more aggressive to make us feel subdued, as the Koran says, which means much more violence, and Im afraid more insurgency of the worst kind, said Gaffney.

When our enemies witness us submitting, they know it is Gods will being realized, which means they must engage in more jihad, he said.

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Frank Gaffney: Islamist Enemy Sees Political Correctness as 'Submission' - Breitbart News

Louisiana State University students are rallying to the defense of their Tigers mascot after an online petition called it a symbol of white oppression and demanded its replacement.

The original petition, created by an anonymous user on Change.org named LaMallori, cited a former LSU administrators account of the mascots origin, which explained that the nickname was chosen in reference to units from Louisiana that earned a reputation for toughness while fighting for the Confederacy during the Civil War.

"Ditching LSUs beloved mascot would be sanitizing history for the purpose of extreme political correctness."

LaMallori independently claims that the soldiers from those units were just as violent to the black slaves they owned, and later even more violent once those slaves were set free.

Calling the LSU mascot the most prevalent confederate symbol in the United States, the petition deems it incredibly insulting for any African American to have to attend to a school that honors Confederate militantism, adding that it is already hard enough to be black at LSU, and these symbols must be changed.

Almost as an aside, the petition also complains that it is cruel to cage a wild animal for the amusement of privileged white people.

[RELATED: Petition: LSU Tigers mascot a symbol of white oppression]

Facing backlash following Campus Reforms report on the petition, LaMallori added an update comparing the effort to the removal of Confederate statues in New Orleans, as well as vehemently denying any racist intent behind the original wording.

Black people will be the new majority in Louisiana, and they need to recognize this new power, the update asserts. They need to understand that we can shape the state in our image, just as white people once shaped the state in their image.

Recently, though, LSU students have created a counter-petition declaring their support for the Tigers mascot, deriding the original petition as a form of extreme political correctness and asking the school to retain the cherished symbol.

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According to the counter-petition, perceptions regarding the nickname have changed dramatically since it was first selected, notably with the introduction in the 1930s of Mike the Tiger, a live tiger owned by the school and named after a former athletic trainer.

Since the advent of a live Mike the Tiger nearly a century ago, the Louisiana Tigers have come to embrace the beautiful animal named for a renowned LSU athletic trainernot a fiction that comes from a Confederate symbol, the counter-petition contends. Ditching LSUs beloved mascot would be sanitizing history for the purpose of extreme political correctness.

The counter-petition was created by David Walters, who is also a co-founder of the Students for Trump group at LSU, and at press time had garnered 691 signatures, surpassing the original petitions 635 supporters.

The point of my petition is to show that we will not put up with that kind of nonsense anymore, Walters told Campus Reform. [The tiger] is tradition and will remain that way.

[RELATED: Students petition to fire prof for shaming Trump supporters in class]

LSU Media Relations Director Ernie Ballard told WWL that the school is aware of LaMalloris petition, but insisted that the school is not considering replacing the mascot.

He also disputed the petitions claim that the original Louisiana Tigers were known for their especially harsh treatment of slaves, confirming that The tiger mascot was...selected based on lore about the battlefield ferociousness of a Louisiana regiment operating in Northern Virginia, but stating that there is no information about soldiers conduct outside of battlefield accounts.

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Rep. Clay Higgins is standing by a recent Facebook post callingradicalized Muslims as heathen animals and saying Americans should kill them all, telling Salon that the real problem seems to be political correctness.

We are a world at war, the Louisiana Republican said. The enemy is radicalized Islamic jihadists. The terrorists certainly take advantage of the politically correct madness that consumes the West. They revel, that many in the western world are frightened to speak freely. Ive never been accused of being politically correct. I call things the way I see them. The meaning of candid speech is frequently mischaracterized or misunderstood. This is about prioritizing national security and protecting American lives.

Every measure must be taken to eliminate radical Islamic terrorism and the threat it poses to the free world, he added. My only concern is protecting the people that live in my district, my state, and my country. We must stand strong against radical Islamic terror. The fate of the free world will be determined by the courageous, not by the intimidated.

Higgins became famous because of aweekly news segment called Crime Stoppers, one in which he would discuss local crimes and issue direct, no-nonsense ultimatums to the suspects. They were incredibly popular, even if his strong languageeventuallygot him in trouble, and he has ridden that reputation for frankness all the way to a political career.

The videos would frequently insult the intelligence and moral character of the criminals he was calling out and were replete with references to Higgins own Christian faith. In a particularly controversial video, Higgins called out individual members of the Gremlins street gang by name, referring to them as animals and calling one an uneducated, 125-pound punk thats never won a fair fight in your life.

Several family members of the individuals called out in the video took public exception to Higgins language.

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