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| Politically Correct in '09 |
| 2009-12-24 |
| by Ted Nugent Of the many self-inflicted problems that face our country, none is as dangerous to the survival of our nation as the curse of political correctness. PC appears to be a seemingly immortal condition of stupidity. But stupidity, in the long run, usually manages to limit its numbers. The danger lies in being in the vicinity when those numbers limit themselves. Political correctness is a cancer that many Americans, government institutions, businesses and even many individual citizens have willfully embraced and now serve as hosts who intentionally spread this horrible disease. PC pokes its enormous nose into the tent disguised as good manners. Name-calling has come to be adjudged to have no place in civilized society. This is in theory good -- my grandmother was the most lovely of women, with a large and comfortable lap and a pair of arms that was always there for little boys, but she also had a moustache and she barely spoke English. I'd not take kindly to hearing her referred to as a "wop." On the other hand, I seldom heard "wops" referred to as such to their faces, though the hillbilly side of me does hear the word "cracker" a bit more often. Let me be clear: political correctness is a form of cowardice that leads to brain damage. It takes us from now calling people bad names to being afraid to refer to spades as spades, or even as shovels. It concerns itself with feeling good instead of thinking clearly and actually doing good. It masks the truth because the truth is too uncomfortable for the intellectually and spiritually weak in our society. The word "nigger" has mutated into "the n----- word." This is good as an expression of good manners. When we pass that point and refuse to acknowledge the existence of "yo boyz" we achieve the nirvana of stupidity. When we become aware of the existence of "niggahz" but restrain ourselves from using the word we dip our toes in the ocean of the ridiculous. To others, political correctness serves as a useful smokescreen. Political correctness is ultimately about stepping on the throat of common sense and strangling the life out of it. Logic be damned. It becomes a method of thought control, which is the aim of all dictatorship. Thinking of the dread forbidden words makes us feel shame. Actually speaking them costs us jobs and social position. If we were sufficiently well indoctrinated we wouldn't even be able to utter the words, so we deserve our punishment. Need some recent examples of politically correct poison? A flood of them lie on the edge of consciousness... How about the Muslim terrorist -- yes terrorist -- who killed thirteen soldiers and wounded thirty more at Fort Hood? Many politicians, including our president, did their best to mask the discomforting truth about this hate mongering, murdering Muslim terrorist. Instead of calling him what he is, a Muslim terrorist, many in our government and the media did their best to downplay his Muslim religion and his e-mail communication with another radical Muslims, the clear and present enemies of America. The truth is that the murdering punk is a soulless, America hating Muslim terrorist. Islam, hiding its many (and literal) sins, was quick to jump onto the PC bandwagon. We view, every day, the atrocities Muslims visit upon each other in ensuring religious orthodoxy -- and often in arguing over what that orthodoxy might be. We are aware of the fact that exemplars of the religion have declared war on us, want the males among us dead and the females among us as slaves, sexual and otherwise. Yet these observations are denied validity, denied in fact their very existence. Islamic bloodthirst has to be our fault somehow. Political correctness has enabled various human scum to slaughter innocent people. All recent mass killings including the slaughter at Fort Hood have occurred in the left's dream of gun free zones. Dozens of Americans have died because some political correct moron decided to make a shopping mall, Army fort, school campus, church, restaurant, and many other places gun free zones, the unarmed, helpless playground for murderers. Proceeding from the premise that all humans are law-abiding that idea makes perfect sense. Proceeding from the idea that most are but that the remainder are savages gives us today's reality. That's right, some feel-good idiot made a conscious decision to create an environment that literally guarantees victims. But the theory sez it should work. What're y'gonna believe: theory or your own lying eyes? And for what reason did they create this intolerable and inhumane environment: they wanted to "feel" good that they were doing something to reduce violence. The result: they created killing fields in every case. "Violence" is in the world of the politically correct a bad thing -- always and under all circumstances. It is, however, understandable in those who want to slap us around or despoil us or even kill us. Don't ask me how. My mind's not flexible enough to accommodate the concept. A band of fascisti goose stepping down the street and Hitler grüssing and singing the Horst Wessel song is bad. I'm guessing that it's because it's also in the past. A band of student ayatollahs goose stepping and Hitler grüssing down the street is a mere expression of a cultural difference and after all look what we did the the Kickapoos 150 years ago. The global warming issue is one of the biggest political correct frauds in the history of mankind. If you recall, back in the 1970s the environmental alarmists were telling us we were on the verge of an ice age. I still have the longhandles I laid in for Nuclear Winter... Now, Al Gore--possibly one of the biggest energy consumers and carbon emitters in the United States--wants us to believe that man is the cause of the earth warming. I confess. It was me. I burned the cardboard out back. Al Gore is a fraud who has made tens of millions peddling his global warming junk science. He is the Bernie Madoff of the science community. Ted's just jealous because he didn't invent the internet and star in Love Story... Due to political correctness, schools have expelled Boy Scouts because they had a small pocket knife, banned the games of dodge ball and tag, oftentimes the very concept of winners and losers in our educations system, yet these very same schools pump our kids full of junk food such as soda, candy, pizza and burgers while reducing the amount of physical activity. I'm wondering how that came about. I can remember the meat loaf and macaroni and cheese lunches served up in the cafeteria we had during my school years, and the milk -- occasionally chocolate milk -- we washed it down with. I can't recall ever being served pizza or burgers. I'm wondering how much we paid the genius who came up with the idea to do so. I've got a few ideas that probably aren't any better, but certainly aren't any worse, that I can let go for reasonable prices... Result: our children are the fattest, most unhealthy, blubber-infested kids on the planet, yet not one of them has been attacked by a Boy Scout with a pocket knife. The only zero tolerance public school policy I advocate is banning policies that reward "feel good" idiocy. When I was a child our mothers would send us out to play, where we could burn off thousands of calories in just a few hours. We ran wild, exploring the entire town, visiting back and forth, trading toys and the occasional knuckle sandwich. No child I knew was ever carried off by a pervert... Oh. Wait. Calling them perverts is politically incorrect, isn't it? I don't think I ever heard the word "pedophile" until I was in my 30s. The politically incorrect hillbillies, wops, and dumb Dutchmen I grew up around wouldn't have stood for any of their number "getting after" kids, and while they were perfectly hospitable to strangers they weren't that indulgent of them, if you follow my drift... Political correctness has even made inroads into the hunting community. We actually have hunters who believe we should cover up the dead deer in the bed of our pickup trucks because they believe we will offend non-hunters if they see an actual dead deer. This, of course, is the exact opposite what hunters should be told and what non-hunters need to see. I tolerate none of this lunacy. I celebrated the last pure, ultimate green environmentalism on earth; hunting, fishing and trapping. They are literally biologically perfect. I'm too stiff and arthritic to hunt anymore, so to be properly PC I guess I should demand that everyone else stop. Someone told me not long ago that common sense is no longer common. It never has been. Never forget that half of everyone is below average. And 80 percent of everyone is middlin'. Sadly, the grotesque evidence continues to stack up that buttresses this sad but true statement. The list of political correct, butthead examples goes on and on. The Titanic is sinking and some politically correct jerks are trying to convince the rest of us to get busy and rearrange the deck chairs instead of climbing into the life boats. It's literally that bizzarro and ugly. I think it's actually gone beyond that. They're fighting for control of the wheelhouse for the honor of piloting us all into the depths of the briny deep. Until America returns to a policy of bold, unabashed truth, logic, honesty and common sense, the rest of our financial and social problems will continue to escalate. It is impossible to truly fix a problem by "feeling good" about fixing it. Only idiots go hunting with a "feel good" arrow in their quiver. I hunt with razor sharp arrows and I actually kill animals and then I eat them. If you have a problem with that you are stoned on weird and hopelessly addicted to denial. I believe with all my heart that General Patton would tell us that the first thing we need to do to save America is to kill political correctness. A perfect solution to what ails us. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #9 Well, we could ban him... but that might be a wee bit of overkill. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2009-12-24 23:37 |
| #8 Gotta love the Nuge. I see Angleton9 hit the Yule Tide Cheer a wee bit early! Good stuff. Oh, BTW, interesting that the comment (even though sinktrapped) shows up when one comments. Lovely! ;-) |
| Posted by: Zenobia Elminert1941 2009-12-24 20:49 |
| #7 "Al Gore... He is the Bernie Madoff of the science community." Great line. |
| Posted by: GirlThursday 2009-12-24 10:01 |
| #6 Way to miss the point, Angleton9: Politics ought to be about freedom and how to maintain that freedom, not who you are or who your family runs with. Speaking strictly for myself, I don't care who is in your family and I don't care who you bed down with as long as it's not me. |
| Posted by: badanov 2009-12-24 09:25 |
| #5 #4 Besoker my grandfather would make home made applejack that would knock you in the dirt up in Forsyth. |
| Posted by: Beavis 2009-12-24 09:08 |
| #4 Appears Angleton9's breakfast this morning included a glass or two of that apple cider from Mercier's Orchards. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-12-24 08:38 |
| #3 Ironic the previous comment had to be sinktrapped in the PC thread. Nonetheless, there are lines we do not cross, just as we do not refer to Mr. Pruitt's delightful Italian grandmother as a wop. If there is a question in anyone's mind, imagine you are sitting in my living room and I am pouring out tea, while the youngsters sit with a plate of purloined cookies in the corner where they fondly believe I can't see them. (Yes, of course there is something stronger on the sideboard for those who prefer it, do go help yourself). |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-12-24 07:15 |
| #2 I AM a "Cracker". I give you permission to call me one. I am a Georgia Cracker. Forsyth County Georgia. A lot of my kin are Brooks County Crackers (sawgrass, big snakes and Fox Squirrels)and Lumpkin County Crackers ( Hill billys north Georgia mountains). There are more of us scattered through Quitman and Pavo and Camilla( its still 1920 somewhere). My son is married to a Nigger and all my grandchildren are... And I aint no Liberal and that's about all I have to say about what happens to Yankees who aint from around c'here. And if you deliberately insult me, I will hurt you. And I can. But I do make good Cornbread and beans and hamhock. ( I hate sweet Cornbread, be warned..I use two eggs and a bit of salt in the dough to make it hard so you can carry some in your pocket for later) Stone Ground meal...the good stuff. Ever see the Fox in that Disney Movie about B'rer Rabbit? That was my daddy. I am the bear..but with two Master's Degrees and a pistol in the back of my belt. I own an I-talian Tractor and I have two real mean dogs. |
| Posted by: Angleton9 2009-12-24 06:50 |
| #1 Political Correctness: A doctrine which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a tur* by the clean end. anon |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-12-24 03:09 |