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Thread ID: 18980 | Posts: 4 | Started: 2005-07-04
2005-07-04 17:01 | User Profile
This was posted at LF. I was previously unaware of this speech by the excellent William Lind. It appears the speech was first given circa 2000.
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[color=#800000]W[/color]here does all this stuff that youââ¬â¢ve heard about this morning ââ¬â the victim feminism, the gay rights movement, the invented statistics, the rewritten history, the lies, the demands, all the rest of it ââ¬â where does it come from? For the first time in our history, Americans have to be fearful of what they say, of what they write, and of what they think. They have to be afraid of using the wrong word, a word denounced as offensive or insensitive, or racist, sexist, or homophobic.
We have seen other countries, particularly in this century, where this has been the case. And we have always regarded them with a mixture of pity, and to be truthful, some amusement, because it has struck us as so strange that people would allow a situation to develop where they would be afraid of what words they used. But we now have this situation in this country. We have it primarily on college campuses, but it is spreading throughout the whole society. Were does it come from? What is it?
We call it "Political Correctness." The name originated as something of a joke, literally in a comic strip, and we tend still to think of it as only half-serious. In fact, itââ¬â¢s deadly serious. It is the great disease of our century, the disease that has left tens of millions of people dead in Europe, in Russia, in China, indeed around the world. It is the disease of ideology. PC is not funny. PC is deadly serious. If we look at it analytically, if we look at it historically, we quickly find out exactly what it is. Political Correctness is cultural Marxism. It is Marxism translated from economic into cultural terms. It is an effort that goes back not to the 1960s and the hippies and the peace movement, but back to World War I. If we compare the basic tenets of Political Correctness with classical Marxism the parallels are very obvious.
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[left]How does all of this stuff flood in here? How does it flood into our universities, and indeed into our lives today? The members of the Frankfurt School are Marxist, they are also, to a man, Jewish. In 1933 the Nazis came to power in Germany, and not surprisingly they shut down the Institute for Social Research. And its members fled. They fled to New York City, and the Institute was reestablished there in 1933 with help from Columbia University. And the members of the Institute, gradually through the 1930s, though many of them remained writing in German, shift their focus from Critical Theory about German society, destructive criticism about every aspect of that society, to Critical Theory directed toward American society. There is another very important transition when the war comes. Some of them go to work for the government, including Herbert Marcuse, who became a key figure in the OSS (the predecessor to the CIA), and some, including Horkheimer and Adorno, move to Hollywood. [/left]
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2005-07-04 17:42 | User Profile
Wherever Bolsheviks go, misery follows. The ideal place for Bolsheviks would be Israel, where they'd preferably inflict damage onto their own tribe.
2005-07-04 20:57 | User Profile
[URL=http://www.originaldissent.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12924&highlight=lind]Mainstreaming Hate [/URL] [QUOTE=SteamshipTime]This was posted at LF. I was previously unaware of this speech by the excellent William Lind. It appears the speech was first given circa 2000.
[url="http://www.academia.org/lectures/lind1.html"]http://www.academia.org/lectures/lind1.html[/url]
[color=#800000]W[/color]here does all this stuff that you’ve heard about this morning – the victim feminism, the gay rights movement, the invented statistics, the rewritten history, the lies, the demands, all the rest of it – where does it come from? For the first time in our history, Americans have to be fearful of what they say, of what they write, and of what they think. They have to be afraid of using the wrong word, a word denounced as offensive or insensitive, or racist, sexist, or homophobic.....
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This speech apparently is the introduction for the [URL=http://www.originaldissent.com/forums/showpost.php?p=77221&postcount=1]FCF version of the video tape on the Frankfurt School [/URL] otherwise jointly distributed by the FCF and CoCC. 2000 sounds appropriate - that's about the time the SPLC seems to refernce in its attacks on William Lind, [URL=http://www.originaldissent.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12924&highlight=lind]Mainstreaming Hate - the SPLC Attacks William S. Lindand Paul Weyrich[/URL]
2005-07-04 23:36 | User Profile
~~ Wherever Bolsheviks go
Those guys are so soooper.