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In the words of the play of the '60s stop the world, I want to get off.

I can no longer go on my world has shattered into little gray blobs which settle onto the gray pavement where people trudge along in their gray suits and gray shoes and gray lives. All the color has gone, and Im frankly not going to play anymore. Im done. Roger. Over and out.

Yes, dear reader, I have lately discovered that my beloved mother country, indeed the city in which I was born Melbourne has fallen into the P.C.P. the Political Correctness Pit with such verve and enthusiasm that I doubt anywhere in America can rival it.

Apparently, some rabid thing got her knickers in a twist, and insisted that the icon used in the light at the crosswalk was politically incorrect as it resembled note the word resembled, not indeed was at this point I want all snowflakes to turn your faces to the walls my darlings so I do not shock you into blithering blancmangedness a man.

So, Melbourne spent enough to house and feed its homeless for a very long time and changed the icons to also include a resemblance of a female i.e. one wearing a dress.

Now I dont know about you, but I think the last time I wore a dress was back in the '70s where hippy-dippy flowing skirts and peasant blouses were all the rage. Oh no, Ive just stepped into the PC limbo by possibly oh hell, probably offending every current and former hippie and the worlds peasants all in one psychedelic outfit.

I really dont set out to offend, gentle reader, I just dont have an off button, and so off I will go leaving offended petals in my path. I should actually be pitied in this current sensitive enriched hysterical world in which we live, but am I? Heavens no! I am quickly, and I might add joyfully, becoming a social pariah and loving it.

Where does the crosswalk icon crisis end, I ask you? Will we end up with one for transgender crossers a nice boa and size 12 strappy sandals? How about wheelchair users will we have one with both a manual and a motorized chair as God knows we dont want to offend those without an engine? Illegal aliens, how about you? Black, white, yellow, brindle, polka-dotted, acne/clear skin, blonde, brunette, redhead?

Its a pedestrian crossing people! You cross when the light turns green. Oh dear, Ive now offended all non-Irish people. And you dont cross when the light turns red. Uh, oh Native Americans Im so sorry.

We should now all grow a pair, put on our big girl panties, or our tidy whities, and look the whining, complaining Gladys Kravitzes of this world in their eyes and well, to paraphrase my native tongue go forth and multiply.

Get over yourselves. You are not that important, nor are you that interesting. Merge into the crowd that is indeed the human race, get on with life and hey heres a concept. Go have some fun for a change.

-- Annie Dear lives in Lees Summit. Email her at anniedearkc@hotmail.com.

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On Political Correctness as the New Campus "Religion" Inside Higher Ed (blog) Deresiewicz characterizes the religion as a particular strain of political correctness, drawing a distinction between acceptable PC, adhering to the norms of basic decency, like refraining from derogatory epithets, and the bad PC, the persistent ...

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In the format of the election debate, which saw a number of short rounds of discussion between the leaders of the many political parties contesting Wednesdays election, Mr. Wilders was allowed to introduce a motion which would then be debated. Revealing he had selected to discuss Islam, Wilders said hed picked the topic not out of a lack of respect for his opponent, or that he was trying to trip him up, but given it was the last televised debate before the polls opened he thought it should be on the most important topic facing the Netherlands today.

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Opening the discussion, Wilders, who was again seen to be wearing a special bullet and stab-proof vest modelled to resemble a waistcoat under his suit, said: A country can be in an economic crisis, thats an important topic, but with good national and international policy you can solve that problem. But this is an existential problem. This is the survival of the NetherlandsThe future of our country and western civilisation is at stake, so I therefore chose to put this statement on the agenda.

Remarking that political correctness and a willingness to give Islam space to operate in the Netherlands will end up helping to destroy our constitutional state, Wilders told the studio audience and millions watching at home:

Islam and democracy cannot coexist. And you can see that in, literally, every country in which Islam is dominant. We can see a total lack of freedom, you can see widespread violence and oppression, whether you are a Christian or Jew or whether you are an apostate or a critical journalist.

So I think that if we will defend ourselves and deal with Islam that we will not make our constitutional state and our democracy weaker, but stronger. And we need courage to do that, we will have to break the mould.

I dont mean all people who support Islam, but Islam itself plays by different rules than we do. It doesnt play by our rules, so if we play by our rules and Islam doesnt do that then this means that at the end of the day, we will lose everything that we stand for.

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Mr. Wilders said the only policy point he had a major disagreement with the Christian party leader Gert-Jan Segers was over Islam, and accused him of letting Dutch Christians down.

Maybe this is the only political issue I have against your party, I do not understand why your party doesnt fight more against Islamisation. Because Christians, just like in the Middle East, and the Jews, will be the first victims of Islamisation.

In every country where Islam is active and dominant, just like your [experience in] Egypt, the Coptic churches are bombed, the same thingshappen in Syria and elsewhere as well. We have to resist this! We shouldnt accept that.

Your party always plays along with the left you are a party that cooperated with the Socialist party and the Greens for more amnesty, for more asylum seekers among whom there are terrorists you only import more Islam and I dont understand that.

I would really like to see you becoming an ally to protect the Christians in the Netherlands, but you dont do that because you support open borders.

Segers rejected Mr. Wilders call to defend the Netherlands from Islam, accusing him of destroying the Dutch constitutional state in an effort to save it, obliquely comparing the Freedom Party leader to Islamist Turkish PresidentRecep Tayyip Erdoan because of his nationalist stance.

Rejecting the idea that he was letting down Christians, Mr. Segers said his party reflected the core Christian values of neighbourly love and mercifulness in welcoming Muslims to the Netherlands. Responding to the point, Wilders hit back saying: You know better than I that Jesus doesnt exist in Islam. They have Muhammad, a warlord, a paedophile, a man who beheaded Jews by the dozens.

Millions of Dutch citizens are voting on Wednesday to select a new government. The late stages of thecampaign have been somewhat overshadowed by disputes between the Dutch government and Turkey over the activities of Turkish ambassadors in the country. The disagreements have soured relations between the nations sufficiently so that Turkish President Erdoan was motivated to call Dutch people Nazi remnants.

Mr. Wilders has performed strongly in polls, coming first in the majority of research over the past 12 months. This position has been weakened in recent weeks as the establishment Rutte-led conservative party regained some ground, while still standing well behind their position in the 2012 vote.

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For those still unsure whether the nations public school system could use a reset, consider the recent news from New York.

Four years ago, the state introduced a literacy exam for prospective teachers and for good reason. Studies show that an effective, quality teacher is one of the most important factors when it comes to student achievement. They also reveal that too many education colleges accept students with subpar academic records. A 2016 report by the National Council on Teacher Quality found that 44 percent of the teacher preparation programs it surveyed accepted students from the bottom half of their high school classes, the Associated Press reported this week.

New Yorks Academic Literacy Skills Test was designed to ensure that those charged with educating the states children had acquired basic reading and writing skills.

The test results have been astounding. The AP notes that just 46 percent of Hispanics, 41 percent of African-Americans and 64 percent of white candidates passed the exam on the first try. The fact that virtually half of those seeking to become educators couldnt successfully navigate a test that the New York Post described as a something a high school senior should be able to pass is another stunning indictment of teacher prep programs.

All of this, however, is apparently of no concern to New York education officials. Instead of applauding the examinations for identifying teachers who were likely to struggle in the classroom, the state Board of Regents on Monday voted to abolish the test requirement altogether thanks to the racial disparity reflected in the scores.

Theres not a test in the country that doesnt have disproportionate performance on the part of blacks or Hispanics, said Katie Walsh, the president of the National Council on Teacher Quality.

This is political correctness run amok. Certainly the state should strive to implement ways to improve the performance of minority candidates or to lure better minority students to the profession. But turning a blind eye to reality in an effort to promote diversity is to condemn thousands of New York kids to classrooms led by teachers ill-prepared for the rigors of the job.

Obviously, its not really about the children. Who knew?

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Police in Durham are to hand out free heroin to drug users. They say it will both cut crime and save money and will encourage addicts to keep to the straight and narrow.

But the cost per addict per annum is an eye-watering 15,000. This is utter nonsense. All this will achieve is to give addicts clean fixes.

Surely the only aim here should be to get these addicts off drugs and its darned difficult to envisage how that would happen.

Campaigners say that addiction is an illness akin to cancer and the victim should be treated in a similar fashion. In some instances there will be some justification for that view.

When will our PCs stop being so PC?

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Someone unfortunate enough to have little or no parental guidance, who then goes on to fail at school, finds it impossible to get a job then has a disastrous relationship with a partner, is likely to seek something that numbs the ceaseless pain and dims consciousness of their appalling situation.

Obviously, sympathy and help should be afforded to them, but giving them free heroin is not the answer. Then, there are those who commit a litany of offences to fuel their habit and the insanity of this madcap scheme will actually reward them.

So lets get this straight: taxpayers cash will be spent to fund a criminals lifestyle and the drugs handed over by the police. Who came up with this idea, Pete Doherty?

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Current legislation against drugs has failed and the long line of police chiefs who have promised to wage war on drugs have come up empty-handed.

Its not entirely their fault as, in many cases, the courts have failed to impose the sorts of sentences that could be seen to have any effect but the prevalence of drug use increases by the day.

The drugs are easier to come by and are cheaper and the money the dealers can make continues to increase as demand soars.

Justifying the plan in Durham, Chief Constable Mike Barton said: We need to get over our moral panic about giving people heroin as part of a treatment plan. Our primary concern is to prevent crime... Addiction is a medical problem not a criminal justice problem.

And there we have it. A senior police officer lecturing us about why we need not panic over giving free drugs to junkies. What if one of these addicts has 18 months of free heroin and then goes back to crime?

Do you suppose we get our 22,500 back? No, me neither.

Sadly, this is just another step in the path of decline for our police who are being turned into social workers. Their authority is constantly diminished and then politicians are baffled when crime increases.

On Friday it was revealed that knife crime has increased to the highest level in six years and this is in no small way due to the restrictions imposed on police by Theresa May when she was Home Secretary to limit the amount of stop and searches.

Police have to explain why they are stopping a possible suspect and then give them a sheet detailing everything that took place.

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While I am not advocating people being routinely dragged off the streets and hurled into the back of a van by police and kept in a darkened cell for hours, surely the balance has gone the other away.

There are still plenty of good police officers out there, I speak with them regularly on my call-in breakfast radio show, and they are even more frustrated with how their hands are tied than we are.

The role of the police is to protect us and lock up the bad guys. Positioning themselves almost as NHS outreach workers is not the way forward, but just when will our PCs stop being so PC?

It is a scandal that many of the relatives of those who lost their lives in the calamitous Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts were not invited to the unveiling of a memorial to the fallen by the Queen in London last week.

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More than 600 servicemen and women laid down their lives in those wars so who on Earth took the decision not to offer invitations to their families?

Occupying some of the best seats, instead, were members of the Royal Family and current and former senior politicians, which is right even in the case of Tony Blair, the man who took us into the disastrous wars, as he would have been damned if he did attend and equally damned if he did not.

However, why were former ambassadors invited instead of proud family members? It wouldnt have brought all those brave men and women back, but it would have showed how much the lost ones were valued.

What is it with this Government and doctors? As if they are not bruised enough after their lengthy battle with the junior doctors there is now a plan to allow patients to name and shame GPs with long waiting times.

Architects of the scheme say it will encourage surgeries to improve. Cobblers. It will sour the relationship between patient and doctor and demoralise our GPs yet further.

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For decades, the ACC basketball tournament has been held almost exclusively in North Carolina, along Tobacco Road. Between 1954, the first year of the tournament, and 1975, it took place in that state every year.

Following a trip to Landover, Maryland in 1976 (where Virginia won its first championship), the tourney returned to North Carolina for six of the next eight seasons. After a few visits to Landover and Atlanta, it was held in the Tar Heel State for 11 consecutive years, and 14 out of 15.

During the 51 year period I have described, North Carolina teams usually made up less than half of the ACC. I dont ever recall them comprising more than half, though they might have during the very early years before I was a fan.

Yet, the ACC consistently bestowed a home state advantage on Duke, North Carolina, North Carolina State, and Wake Forest, at the expense of Maryland, Virginia, and Clemson and (at various times) South Carolina, Georgia Tech, and Florida State.

Clemson has never won the tournament; it has been the runner-up only twice. Florida State has won it once (Atlanta); Virginia has won it twice (once in Maryland); Georgia Tech has won it three times (twice in Atlanta).

Maryland even though it had a great program in the 1970s, the first half of the 80s, most of the 90s, and the first several years of this century only won the tournament twice during this period (1984 and 2004). During this era it had as many trips to the Final Four as it had ACC championships. (The Terps also won the tournament back in 1958).

Fairly recently, the ACC added teams from all over the place e.g. Louisville, Pittsburgh, Syracuse, Miami, Notre Dame, and Boston College (meanwhile, Maryland left the conference). North Carolina schools now make up less than 30 percent of the league. Yet, that state has hosted five of the last seven tournaments.

It would have held this years tournament too. However, political correctness accomplished what sports equity could not it drove the ACC tourney out of North Carolina.

The event is currently taking place in. . .Brooklyn. No ACC team is located in that area. The closest, I think, is Boston College, more than three and a half hours away.

At last, a truly neutral court.

The ACC moved its tournament in response to North Carolinas bathroom law. Its the same spirit of political correctness that caused the NBA to move this years all-star game from Charlotte to New Orleans and the NCAA to move two rounds of its mens basketball tournament out of the state. I expressed my disgust with this practice here.

Today, the Washington Post, without mentioning how the ACC tournament landed in Brooklyn, tried to make that borough look like a natural fit. It noted that Frank McGuire, who was a big deal coach 50 years ago, was a New Yorker who recruited successfully in that city.

No disrespect to McGuire, Charlie Scott, or Kenny Anderson, but I think this is a case of any port in a political storm. If the ACC hadnt been able to find a non-North Carolina venue in the continental U.S., I suspect it was prepared to go to Alaska. Heck, former ACC stars Trajan Langdon and Carlos Boozer came from there.

The ACC tournament isnt a big deal these days, given the inflated, incoherent nature of the conference and the fact that a large number of its teams will make the NCAA tournament regardless of what happens in Brooklyn. Unless youre a fan of one of the semi-finalists, theres not much reason to watch the event this weekend. That the conference pulled the tourney out of North Carolina for political reasons is a good reason not to watch it.

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Political correctness is curtailing free speech

Re Does America have a free-speech problem? (Question of the Week, Feb. 27):

Yes, we are losing our ability to speak freely in public. It started with the politically correct movement on our college and university campuses.

To this day, I do not understand the people who objected to the naming of football teams after ethnic groups such as the American Indian. I always thought that the American Indian warrior was a very brave and furious warrior fighting for the right to live as and where he wished. To me, he is to be admired. The warriors on football teams must have felt the same way when their team was carrying the names that represented American Indians.

It used to be that discourse of differing ideas and ideologies was welcomed, especially on college and university campuses. How it seems that any differing ideas from the popular belief of the day are not to be allowed to be uttered in public or published.

The professor who told her students that Donald Trump is a good person was admonished for her beliefs. If she prefaced her statements with the statement that they were her opinions and opened the classroom up for discussion between the differing opinions, she should have been applauded and not punished, regardless of the subject she was supposed to teach.

Irving Leemon, Northridge

Its about how you say it

There is no free speech problem in America. A problem occurs only when people speak in a rude, violent or insulting manner.

Richard Metzger, Porter Ranch

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Re 2nd Oscars gaffe: Living woman pictured during In Memoriam (Feb. 27):

Its sad that certain deceased stars failed to make the cut for the Oscar memoriam segment. How about less time for parachuting candy and Jimmy Kimmel holding up kids?

Among the treasures of talent in the industry not mentioned: Gloria DeHaven, Alan Young, Robert Vaughn, Tammy Grimes, Rita Gam, Patricia Barry, Marvin Kaplan, Fritz Weaver, William Shallert, James Stacy, Robert Horton, Garry Shandling, Charmian Carr and Miguel Ferrer.

The 20-member Oscar committee that chooses those to be memorialized bring much pain to the heirs, families and friends of those left out. Disgraceful. They should be ashamed.

Wink Martindale, Calabasas

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Memories of the epic Oscars mishap might be receding but a different sense of injusticeto La La Land, completely unrelated to Warren Beattygetting the wrong envelope, still lingers.

On the surface, it might be difficult to argue that a movie that just won sixAcademy Awards is a victim of anything. But its time to ask: is La La Land a victim of sex, gender and racial politics?

Moonlight is a good movie, a lyrical chronicle of growing up poor, gay and black in America. Yet this movie has been made many times before (from Tea and Sympathy in 1956 toBlue is the Warmest Colorin 2013). The twist is that this time, its a black kid. MahershalaAli deserved his Oscar. But is Moonlight the best movie of the year?

By contrast, La La Land is a deceptively simple movie. The operative word here is deceptive. It seems like an old-fashioned movie, but its not. Its an homage to sentimental Hollywood musicals that is never sentimental itself.

It tells one of the oldest stories in the book. Boy meets girl, boy gets girl, boy loses girl. Also, much has already been said about La La Land. The seemingly uncut opening scene is a magic trick that will be taught in film schools forever. While its devastating that the boy doesnt end up with the girl, if he had the movie would be another stupid Hollywood musical with a happy ending.

La La Land is in fact about art, what it means to be an artist and what you have to sacrifice to become one. Dedication to ones craft at the expense of all else, is one of writer-director Damien Chazelles themes (see the painful break-up in his previous film Whiplash).

When the two characters first meet, theyre in la-la-land, in other words, immature, and confused. By the end of the movie, they have achieved what they set out to do. They made each other better and put each other on their proper paths. Their relationship was not a failure; it was essential to their development as artists. But are they happy? The look of resignation on Mias face as Sebastian simply nods, as if to say Its OK, speaks volumes in the last shot.

While Ryan Gosling cant sing and Emma Stone isnt much better, this is not supposed to be My Fair Lady.It had to be two actors singing badly and dancing imperfectly. The point is that ordinary people can do extraordinary things when inspired, by love or by art, as were the filmmakers here.

It would be meaningless if they were great singers and dancerstheir craft is jazz and acting, not singing and dancing. It is not coincidental either that they make beautiful music together and that the singing and dancing stops once their relationship begins to sour. It was planned.

The point of making a musical (Dancer in the Dark for instance) is exactly to contrast the real life struggles, non-musical scenes, with ones imaginary world (La La Land) where everything is beautiful like an Astaire and Rodgers musical number. Chazelle may be only 32, but with La La Land he has made a true masterpiece.

However, the movie has committed several sins against politically correct Hollywood. To begin with, it had the audacity to be commercially successful, making over $371 million worldwide.

Hollywood doesnt like rewarding success with an Oscar (look at Steven Spielbergs blockbuster Oscar track record orAlfred Hitchcock, arguably the greatest director of all time, only having won an honorary Academy Award).

More importantly, La La Land has been accused of political incorrectness by various groups including women, blacks and jazz lovers. Critics havecomplained about the moviesgender politics.

Morgan Leigh Davis noted in theLA Review of Books that Mia is not much more than a bystander in her own story: Sebastians drive and dedication are more textured than Mias, and it is his melody that recurs through the film to denote particularly important moments in their relationship. Er, its called a musical motif. Sebastian is the author of their relationship who, byintroducing her to jazz and taking her to see Rebel Without a Cause, is teaching her about life.

Sebastian is director Chazelles alter ego and therefore, the driving force behind the movie. The movie is essentially told from his point of view. Maybe it would have been different if a woman had written and directed it. But a woman didnt.

Worse yet, the movie has been hammered for racial politics. Critics who are perhaps still getting over Trumps election accuseChazelle of agreeing that life was better in the 1950s because America was segregated, since the movie is a throw back to the musicals of the 1950s.

This is absurd. George Michael, Toyota Prius, Soft Cell, cell phones and other elements featured in the film didnt existed in the 1950s. This is not a political movie by any stretch of imagination.

La La Land is about being dedicated to art and the sacrifice that is required in pursuit of that dream. To interpret it as promoting racism is using unbelievably convoluted logic? Do wecriticize Apollo 13 because none of the astronauts were black?

Over at MTV News, Ira Madison III claims: If youre gonna make a film about an artist staying true to the roots of jazz against the odds, youd think that artist would be black.

So the claim goes, Sebastian wants to save jazz, but that is not acceptable because he is white. According to this line of reasoning, Chet Baker, Buddy Rich and countless other white jazz musicians should be wiped from the history of jazz merely because as they happen to be caucasian.

There have been numerous other criticisms about the paucity of black leads (er, John Legend?), homosexual leads, and misguided accusations of intellectual snobbery. But once again, this is not a movie that explores the themes being questioned.

The backlash against La La Land exactly accounts for why so much of mainstream America hates the two Coasts. Why does every show, every movie, every cartoon have to have a homosexual, a minority, or a disenfranchised character?

Isnt that reverse discrimination? Isnt it precisely the kind of thinking that is dividing us further into two people who dont understand each other?

We are not African-Americans, or Native-Americans, or White-Americans. We are all simply Americans, said Teddy Roosevelt over 100 years ago. Chazelle, a jazz drummer in his own right, has made a deeply personal movie about creative dedication. The movie is based on his experiences.

Is he supposed to apologize because he happens to be white, straight, and a man? His protagonist is his alter ego. Wouldnt it be hypocritical if Sebastian was black? (And while were on the subject, didnt we just have a President who is black but went out of his way to help white rich Americans more than any other group?)

Hollywood prides itself on being politically correct and gender, sex, race and socioeconomic-class inclusive.

Moonlight, a far inferior movie to La La Land, won because it is about being poor, gay, and black.

In the current political atmosphere, what could be better than sending a strong messages while 100 billion viewers are watching.The overriding message? Take that Mr. Trump, we told you all right! Talk about a Hollywood ending.

The perceived cultural shortcomings stacked against the political correctness represented byMoonlightrobbed La La Land of its rightful Best Movie Oscar.

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POLITICAL CORRECTNESS AND THE DESTRUCTION OF SOCIAL ORDER: CHRONICLING THE RISE OF THE PRISTINE SELF

By Howard S. Schwartz

Palgrave McMillan, $99.99, 199 pages

We usually think of the culture wars as being a competition between the broad groups we currently call progressives, and conservatives, each of which has a general concept of a just society. While they intensely disagree, each group understands the others goals. Historically, each has tried to win people over; remember the old 1960s demonstrators approach, are you aware of the students ten demands? May I give you a copy? Lately, though, we see rebelliousness without goals, and the careful honing of the sensibilities to a level of refinement that can perceive the remotest connection to an offense, real, intentional, or not. We, left and right alike, drape a blanket called political correctness over it all, and sit, baffled, as though we tuned in late and missed most of the plot. Butch Cassidy summed it up for us: who are those guys?

Rage is not a policy. So said Tom Brokaw on the Feb. 23, 2017 edition of Morning Joe. He was talking about the Berkeley students rioting to block a controversial speaker from the campus. They are privileged people at that university. Mr. Brokaw said, and they cant hear somebody who comes and has a message [contrary to their ideas]? I think its outrageous The 2016 mess at Mizzou was somehow triggered by: a drunken white lout who used a slur in a black gathering; an anti-gay insult; and an anonymously drawn swastika in human feces. Oberlin College was overwrought over a non-existent Klansman and a racist and anti-Semitic prank played by students who said they were trolling. Yale melted down over opinions about Halloween costumes. Occupy Wall Street occupied space and made noise but never presented a set of demands at all. There are more. Who are those guys?

Howard S. Schwartz thinks he knows them and offers to make an introduction by means of a fascinating book titled, Political Correctness and the Destruction of Social Order: Chronicling the Rise of the Pristine Self. Mr. Schwartz uses psychoanalytic techniques to explain perplexing recent politically correct phenomena. He theorizes that we are seeing the actions of a kind of narcissist that demands that all contacts from the world at large be loving nurturing, and affirming, and who believes such a state of affairs to be a right, of which he or she has been deprived by the social structure.

Such people subconsciously wish to live in the imaginary state of infants who receive all nurture and protection from the mother. This state of affairs, which never existed outside of infantile perception, can only exist if the entire world is maternally nurturing and loving to them as opposed to being objective and demanding or even, merely indifferent. It is also atomistic because each such person wishes to be the center of the loving world.

However, the world in reality is objective, demanding and indifferent. Such people, therefore mistrust and even hate all social structure, seeing it as being inherently oppressive. Society to them is not an organically developed and positive, if flawed, system of guidelines, and agreed norms of behavior, but rather something wrongfully imposed, that blocks the maternal nurturing world they seek and steals from them their personal freedom and uniqueness. This they unconsciously and symbolically identify with the paternal principle. Hence they deeply resent and feel rage towards the patriarchal system, (and of course, white males), they attack toxic masculinity, and they seek to pull down the existing cultural structure without anything to replace it. After all, a replacement social structure is in fact, just another social structure.

The beliefs of such people take a religious quality. Therefore, what opposes them is evil. White males, as the creators/beneficiaries of the patriarchal system, and of white privilege, are the source of the evil. They and their works must be rooted out, even at the loss of the basic conventions necessary for people to interact. Consider the University of Washington, Takoma, which finds that grammatical standards are racist and must die. So much for laws, contracts, scholarship and even love letters.

Mr. Schwartz plentiful examples in the book, including several mentioned above, begin to make sense under his analysis. If he is right, the challenge for progressives and conservatives of good will is this: how does one compromise with people who have no program to propose? What is the sound of one hand clapping?

Joseph Sullivan chairs the advisory board for the Institute for Policy Innovation in Dallas.

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Why 'rage is not a policy' - Washington Times

It is high time we stop with the delusion regarding the true meaning of political correctness. The ugly truth is that it is nothing more than Marxist mind control.

A good case in point is the incorrect use of words like immigrant, undocumented migrant, etc. In a country founded on the rule of law, aliens that infiltrate our borders illegally are law breakers, not immigrants!

Acceptable immigration is based on legal entry into a country, utilizing a realistic quota that insures assimilation, in order to guarantee that newcomers embrace American values, respect our culture and the heritage that belongs to our countrymen.

We are witnessing a major threat from a ramped, uncontrolled change in demographics that is a serious threat to our sovereignty.

Many of these same groups, while taking advantage of our misguided government handouts, show their gratitude by demanding we conform to an unacceptable foreign culture at the demise of our value system, and yes, even to change our judicial system to a maniacal system, the likes of Sharia Law.

What ever happened to good old Yankee common sense? As of late we have been plagued with totally irresponsible leaders who have failed miserably by not enforcing the existing immigration laws. As a result, we are now faced with a difficult, controversial challenge in how best to devise an equitable solution.

The one thing that has become perfectly clear would indicate that uncontrolled immigration is a threat to the country and a way of life that generations before us have been willing to die for.

Yes, we are a benevolent country that embraces immigration. However, unenforced immigration without quotas and conditions that require respect of our laws and value system including assimilation, cannot be allowed to continue unabated in its present form.

Wake up America! It looks as though Nikita Khrushchev was correct after all when he said, America will self-destruct from within!

Today, we are witnessing the demise of a civil America assisted by these same arrogant foreign trespassers involved in anti-American demonstrations, embedded with uncontrolled hooligans committing acts of violence and the destruction of private property.

All this in the name of PCs misguided tolerance of irresponsible free speech!

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