By Cathy Duffy
This is a speech I gave many years a go on Political Correctness! I
challenge anyone to say that this is/has not happened and call me a liar
today!
So….What is Political Correctness? How did it start? More importantly, how did it become so successful?
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To begin with, what you need to know is that Political Correctness
is first and foremost an attack on free speech, clear thinking and
discussion. Political Correctness is perpetrated by the Left in politics
as a cover for their flawed ideology – a sort of Cultural Marxism.
By cloaking their strong ideas under the cover of not wishing to offend
anyone (which naturally appeals to people’s better nature), they try to
bypass debate and give a ‘received wisdom’ which must not be
questioned. Anyone who disagrees with this ‘received wisdom’ must be a
really nasty person and deserves to be ostracised by their peers. This
peer pressure is instrumental in enforcing and expanding political
correctness.
The old Soviet Union had Gulag’s which were a system
of networks of forced labour camps, that at it’s peak, consisted of
over 400 official prisons and held millions of prisoners. In the Stalin
era, the prison population became increasing enemies who did not
subscribe to his political, religious or economic teachings. The Russian
Gulag system of forced labour camps became a symbol of tyranny and
oppression.
The European Union also has a Gulag, an intellectual
Gulag known as Political Correctness. This is the beginning of the
Gulag, the beginning of your loss of freedom.
In the old Soviet
Union they were told that they needed a federal state to avoid war. In
the EU they are telling us the same thing. In short, the same ideology.
The EU is the same old Soviet model presented in Western guise. But like
the Soviet Union, the EU has within itself the sins of its own demise.
Political correctness as it is better known, knows no restraints and
the new thought police remain busy as ever inventing new terms to
ridicule its opponents and relentlessly attacking those who merely
question their ever obtrusive and frankly Marxist inspired propaganda.
And it is Marxist ideology at work here.
Economic Marxism failed
spectacularly of course and in 1989 the oppressed people of Eastern
Europe collectively and understandably threw off the yoke of their
communist overlords, while the ‘left’ in the west looked on in anguish
as their philosophy was ripped to shreds by events. However, cultural
Marxism has remained not only rampant but is succeeding in changing
societies throughout the west. Their desire to change and defeat western
culture and civilization is as strong as ever, and their weapons have
been and remain political correctness combined with the progressive
erosion of values long held.
Unfortunately when it collapses here
in the West, and it will, it will leave mass destruction behind and we
will be left with huge economic and ethnic problems. The old Soviet
Union system was incapable of reform and so is the EU – but there is an
alternative to being ruled by those 2 dozen or so self appointed
officials in Brussels – it is called Independence! You don’t have to
accept what they have planned for you.
And so, for the first
time in OUR history, we are not free to say what we think. If we say
something deemed offensive or insensitive, we may be in serious trouble
or maybe even punished. Everyone is so terrified of being labelled
‘inappropriate’ or ‘politically incorrect’ that they are afraid to open
their mouths or express an opinion.
Political Correctness is a
cancer that has spread throughout all facets of life from politics to
the office, and yes, even to the churches. Political Correctness is the
devil’s modern day scud missile, it is the mainstay of liberalism and it
seems that a deteriorating society is exactly what it strives for.
Political Correctness is nothing less than a Marxist ideology translated
into economic and cultural terms going back to the time of WW1.
There are several definitions used for Political Correctness, some of which include;
1) Doing the reverse of what common sense would suggest.
2) Inconveniencing the innocent while making life easier for the wrong-doer.
3) Not telling the truth in case it offends.
4) Changing the language where you perceive it may offend.
5) Doing exactly the opposite of what you preach.
6) What you do has the effect of making the problem you were trying to cure, worse.
7) Doing ridiculous things just for a political reason.
8) Favouring a minority just for political reason.
Political Correctness as we know it today started as a ‘Think Tank’
called the Frankfurt School in Germany. The Frankfurt School is not a
place as such, but a school of thought for Research in philosophy and
the social sciences from a Marxist perspective.
It was going to
be called The Institute of Marxism but in order to hide its Marxist
roots, it became known as The Institute of Social Research. To begin
with the school and the institute were indistinguishable and in 1923 the
institute was officially established.
Here was a group of
thinkers who pulled together to find a solution to the biggest problem
facing the implementers of Communism in Russia.
The problem? Why wasn’t Communism spreading?
Their answer? Because Western Civilisation was in the way!
In 1935, after Hitler came to power, the Frankfurt School moved to New
York City, where they continued their work by translating Marxism from
economic to cultural terms using Sigmund Freud’s psychological
conditioning mechanisms to get Americans to buy into Political
Correctness. In 1941 they moved to California to spread their wings.
Very basically, the Frankfurt School believed that as long as an
individual had the belief – or even the hope of belief – that his divine
gift of reason could solve the problems facing society, then that
society would never reach the state of hopelessness and alienation that
they considered necessary to provoke a socialist revolution. Their task,
therefore, was to as swiftly as possible; undermine the Judeo-Christian
legacy.
To do this they called for the most negative destructive
criticism possible of every sphere of life which would be designed to
de-stabilize society and bring down what they saw as the ‘Oppressive
order’. Their policies, they hoped, would spread like a virus.
Now at the root of Communism was the theory that all the valid ideas
came from the effect of the social group of the masses and that the
individual was nothing! And further, they believed that the only way for
Communism to advance was to HELP Western Civilisation to destroy itself
by undermining its foundations by chipping away at the rights of those
annoying individuals.
They also decided that one way to do this
would be to change everyone’s speech and thought patterns by spreading
the idea that vocalising your beliefs is disrespectful to others and
must be avoided to make up for past iniquities and injustices. This
could then be used to stifle any discussion which might show up the lack
of common sense in their ideology.
Political Correctness is not
funny. It is here now and growing still, and it will eventually destroy,
as it seeks to destroy, everything that we have ever defined as out
freedom, and our culture.
I would just like to read a few of their other recommendations and they are;
1) The creation of racism offences.
2) Continual change to create confusion.
3) The teaching of sex and homosexuality to children.
4) The undermining of schools and teachers authority.
5) Huge immigration to destroy national identity.
6) The promotion of excessive drinking.
7) Emptying of Churches
8) An unreliable legal system with bias against the victim of crime.
9) Dependency on the State or State benefits.
10) Control and dumbing down of the media.
11) Encouraging the breakdown of the family.
Does any of this sound familiar to you??????
This ladies and gentlemen, is Great Britain 1997 onwards and all due to our wicked, evil and traitorous Marxist Government!
Even our education system is betraying our children and a politically
correct syllabus is seeing them leave school in such an ignorant state
that they are hopelessly ill equipped to cope in an adult world.
One in four pupils leaves school functionally illiterate.
Primary School teachers will no longer be required to cover the past
history of the Romans, Vikings, Tudors, Queen Victoria, the Second World
War, or even the horrors of Nazism. Further, universities have to offer
remedial teaching in basic subjects. Even some pupils who got four A’s
at A-Level can’t manage mental arithmetic. Ask them to multiply two
single digits together and they will reach for a calculator. Ask them
questions about the last thousand years of British History and watch the
blank faces.
By the dumbing down of education, the creation of
huge state sector employment, and large scale immigration, New Labour
has effectively created a captive audience to vote for them or Blue
Labour should the Conservatives actually get back into power.
One
of the main ideas of the Frankfurt School was to exploit Freud’s idea
of ‘pansexualism’ – the search for pleasure, the exploitation of the
differences between the sexes, the overthrowing of traditional
relationships between men and women and to further their aims, they
would;
1) Attack the authority of the father, deny the specific
roles of father and mother and wrest away from families their rights as
primary educators of their children.
2) Abolish differences in the education of boys and girls.
3) Abolish all forms of male dominance – hence the presence of women in the Armed Forces.
4) Declare woman to be an ‘oppressed class’ and men as ‘oppressors’.
Willi Münzenberg who was a leading propagandist for the KPD
(Communist Party of Germany), and who was later murdered by the NKVD
(which was better known for the activities of the Gulags, and later went
onto be known as the KGB), summed up the Franfurt School’s long-term
operation thus:
“We will make the West so corrupt that it stinks”
The school believed that there were two types of revolution, a) Political & b) Cultural.
Cultural revolution demolishes from within. They saw it as a long-term
project and kept their sights clearly focused on the family, education,
media, sex and popular culture.
Now “Critical Theory” or the
“Critical Theory of Society” is a label used by the Frankfurt School,
their intellectual and social network, and those influenced by them
intellectually to describe their own work.
The School is orientated towards ‘Radical Social Change’.
The Frankfurt School theory has influenced some segments of the left
wing or leftist thought – particularly the ‘New Left’ or ‘New Labour’.
Political Correctness has made our old friend, common sense, a thing of
the past now, so please….Do not let anyone fool you into thinking that
PC is about being nice to people, tolerant and treating them with proper
respect. That’s called plain old “Good Manners”.
It is one thing
to be educated, considerate, polite and have good manners, and another
to be forced to self-censor and say things that are totally incorrect in
order to comply with the arbitrary dictum of a deceiving and fanatical
far-left agenda. It is the nature of Western Civilisation to be
civilised, respectful of others, and concerned with correcting
injustices.
We don’t NEED PC to make us think we are not civilised on our own and must have out thoughts and words restricted.
Political Correctness has been deliberately designed to subvert free
speech, debate, and common sense. Far from being tolerant, PC people are
not the most tolerant people of all, and actually have some of the
worse manners preferring to just shout abuse at you.
The PC
Brigade will tell you that you are offending ‘victims’ or encouraging
‘hate’. Don’t fall for this – their real reason is to control you and to
stop you identifying common sense that may expose the weakness in their
dogma. Free speech is the only way we have of judging people’s opinions
and ideas.
I’m sure all of you would agree that free speech does
not give us the right to insult others or attempt to stir up hatred and
violence. Free speech means listening to other people’s views and if
they differ from ours, arguing against them. It doesn’t mean attempting
to smear anyone you disagree with in order to silence them!
Prior
to 1832 the ordinary citizens of this country had no voice in
parliament. If the main political parties continue to be controlled by
the Liberal Elite, history will repeat itself.
We must protect
our right of free speech in the United Kingdom. Politicians and the
public must be free to discuss all issues in a rational and civilised
manner, without the limitations imposed on them by one small section of
society. Free Political thinking and discussion is the cornerstone of
democracy.
The need for free thought and free speech in a society is very important and cannot be over emphasised.
You should by now realise that Political Correctness is not only a self
defeating tyranny and a sort of ‘social dementia’, it is an insidious
attack on free thinking, truth, and free speech by a self appointed
extreme left vociferous minority.
The whole charade is costing
the country an absolute fortune and tying us all up in knots, while the
only people that gain out of it are the wrong-doers.
We need a
government strong enough to repeal or drastically modify the legislation
on which most of this PC nonsense has its ultimate power base – The
Human Rights Act, some parts of the Employment and Health & Safety
Law and the Police & Criminal Evidence Act, and we of course, need
to withdraw from the EU where much of this nonsense does comes from.
Political Correctness remains just what it was intended to be: a
sophisticated and dangerous form of censorship and oppression, imposed
upon us with the ultimate goal of manipulating, brainwashing, and
destroying our society.
If we allow the subversion of our values
and interests to continue, we will (in future generations) lose all that
our ancestors suffered and died for.
So what is the inevitable result of Political Correctness?
Well, a reading of history – it is in all mainstream historical
accounts – tells us that we are about to lose the most precious thing we
have – our individual freedoms.
By using the excuse of not
upsetting anyone, the PC Brigade are demanding that people behave like
the fool who would please everyone; that everyone must become such a
fool! And, that all must accept the notions of Political Correctness as
truth, or else!
This is the same mentality that inspired the
Inquisition and forced Galileo to recant; the same mentality that
inspired the Nazis and brought about the Holocaust. Once expression gets
placed in a straight-jacket of social truth, then the madness that occurs in all totalitarian states is obtained.
Life, in private and public, becomes a meaningless charade where delusion thrives and terror rules.
Political Correctness IS A Social Dementia and unless plain speaking is
allowed, clear thinking is denied. There can be no good reason for
denying freedom of expression, there is no case to rebut, only the empty
slogans of people inspired by selfishness and unrestrained by morality.
The proponents of this nonsense neither understand the implications of
what they say, nor why they are saying it: They are simply insane!
Make no doubt about this, we are in trouble as a nation and people have
to stop being afraid! Remember, we have been betrayed by the liberal
elite and they must not be allowed to carry on with their wanton
destruction of everything our fore-fathers fought and died for – namely
our freedom.
We need change – People need to get out there and
vote for the British National Party. There is only one option for this
country now – for the United Kingdom - and that is ‘patriotism’. Only
the British National Party can/is giving people hope. As I have already
mentioned, we are in trouble and our people must stop moaning, and more
importantly, stop being afraid.
All of you here know that we need
change. People need to vote – it’s the only thing we have. The British
National Party are the only party that threatens the establishment and
people need to get out and vote for their land – the very land that our
ancestors fought and died for. We owe to them, to their courage, and to
their memories.
The West has never been under such attack as it
is now. There is one big problem that needs to be removed from our
society before we can move on and that is modern liberalism.
The
emotional roots of PC must be challenged. PC is founded on Western guilt
and self-loathing which can be countered by more objective teaching of
history and Western values. Foundations can be set up to preserve and
promote Western heritage and values.
People in Britain should
remember that they have more to be proud of than guilty. These little
rain-swept isles of the West coast of the European peninsula have given
an utterly disproportionate amount to the world, including parliamentary
democracy, industrialisation, and yes, even football!
If we
allow it to continue to control our very lives, we can wave ‘Good Bye’
to the birthplace of Western democracy, to liberty and to freedom.
We don’t need Political Correctness. All citizens who cherish liberty
must reject it. Freedom of speech must be preserved in Great Britain if
we are to continue to be free.
We are forewarned!
