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Government Propagandist-In-Chief Condemns Political Incorrectness As "The Furthest Thing From Brave"
Some have called Cass Sunstein "America's Goebbels" since he sugggested that the government "formally hire credible private parties to engage in counterspeech," and was engaged by President Obama as 'Information Tzar'. So today's op-ed from the government's propagandist-in-chief, condemning those who choose to push back against political correctness, should be read with a Bernaysian perspective as Sunstein attempts to delegitimize any and every effort to argue against the government's view of the world.
Authored by Cass Sunstein, originally posted at BloombergView,
Among Republicans, it has become politically correct to be politically incorrect. Actually that’s the most politically correct thing that you can possibly be. As soon as you announce that you’re politically incorrect, you’re guaranteed smiles and laughter, and probably thunderous applause. Proudly proclaiming your bravery, you’re pandering to the crowd.
A math-filled new paper, by economists Chia-Hui Chen at Kyoto University and Junichiro Ishida at Osaka University, helps to explain what’s going on. With a careful analysis of incentive structures, they show that if self-interested people want to show that they are independent, their best strategy is to be politically incorrect, and to proclaim loudly that’s what they are being. The trick is that this strategy has nothing at all to do with genuine independence; it’s just a matter of salesmanship, a way to get more popular.
Focusing on the role of experts rather than politicians, Chen and Ishida note that in many circles, political correctness is “associated with a negative connotation where people who express politically correct views are perceived as manipulative or even dishonest.” For that reason, the unbiased expert has a strong strategic incentive, which is to “deviate from the norm of political correctness” to demonstrate “that he is, at least, not manipulative.” Of course, the deviation is itself a form of manipulation, strategically designed to convince people that the expert can be trusted.
Chen and Ishida’s punchline is that whenever experts care about their reputations, “we cannot regard political incorrectness naively as a sign of blunt honesty since it can easily be an attempt to signal one’s hidden characteristics rather than the true state of the world. ” With respect to Republican candidates, that’s putting it much too gently. It’s the strategic go-to line when things get tough.
Consider the Republican chorus in this light. Donald Trump complains that we have “become so politically correct as a country that we can't even walk. We can't think properly. We can't do anything.” Ted Cruz is more concise: “Political correctness is killing people.” Ben Carson insists that the biggest threat to free speech comes from what he calls the “Political Correctness police,” who have “created fear in a large portion of our population, causing them to remain silent.” Mario Rubio says the “radical left” is using a “politically correct way to advocate Israel’s destruction.”
It’s true that in some left-wing circles, especially on college campuses, political correctness is doing serious damage, because it entrenches a particular ideological orthodoxy (and dampens necessary dissent). In some places, you reject that orthodoxy at your peril. If you say that you oppose affirmative action or an increase in the minimum wage, you incur a kind of reputational tax, and the price may be too high to be worth paying.
But those who deplore political correctness tend to entrench an orthodoxy of their own. And when they do so, they get an immediate reputational subsidy, in the form of a boost in popularity. Chen and Ishida show that when experts or politicians decry political correctness, they are engaging in what economists call “signaling."
One of their signals is that they are willing to poke a finger into the eye of left-wing orthodoxies. By embracing political incorrectness, Republican candidates proclaim that they will not be cowed by, or even compromise with, their political opponents.
The other signal, and the more important one, involves authenticity. If a politician makes some outrageous statement, and follows it with a suggestion that he deplores political correctness, you might well conclude that you can trust what he says. Whatever else they are, those who make outrageous statements seem honest and real rather than programmed or scripted. That’s what a lot of voters are demanding.
But there is a sham here, and it’s ironic. The very Republicans who proclaim their rejection of political correctness have committed themselves to a host of policy judgments that are, in their circles, politically correct. Those judgments help define the prevailing orthodoxy. If you want to survive, you had better not question any of them.
Here are some examples: Gun control is a terrible idea. The Affordable Care Act is a disaster. The United States shouldn’t be doing a lot to combat climate change. Affirmative action is bad. The Barack Obama administration is a dismal failure. Ronald Reagan was great. The minimum wage should not be increased.
None of the leading Republican candidates dares to challenge even one of these statements in public. If Trump, Cruz, Rubio, or Carson supported an aggressive effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, or called for a boost in the minimum wage, you might not agree with him -- but you’d know that he really was willing to be independent and to say what he thinks.
Condemning political correctness? That’s telling people just what they want to hear. It’s the furthest thing from brave.
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Curious, Obama's mentors are Cass Sunstein, Robert Kagan and Robert Rubin.
All people who should be jailed.
David Ray Griffin on Sunstein:
Former Chicago and Harvard law professor Cass Sunstein, who in 2009 was appointed by President Barack Obama to direct an important executive branch office, had in 2008 co-authored an article containing a plan for the government to prevent the spread of anti-government "conspiracy theories." Arguing that such theories are believed only by groups suffering from "informational isolation," he advocated the use of anonymous government agents to engage in "cognitive infiltration" of these groups in order to introduce "cognitive diversity," with the aim of breaking them up.
Noting that Sunstein's proposal has evoked condemnations from across the political spectrum--not least because it, being similar to the FBI's COINTELPRO of the 1960s, would be illegal--David Ray Griffin focuses on the fact that Sunstein's primary target is the conspiracy theory advocated by the 9/11 Truth Movement. Examining Sunstein's charge that this theory is both "harmful" and "demonstrably false," Griffin uses both satire and overwhelming evidence to show that this twofold charge applies instead to what Sunstein calls "the true conspiracy theory" about 9/11-namely, the "theory that Al-Qaeda was responsible for 9/11."
http://www.amazon.com/Cognitive-Infiltration-Appointees-Undermine-Conspi...
Just to clarify, as long as it could potentially reach a foreign audience domestic propoganda distributed to americans is now legal, as in, anywhere on the internet.
I'm not going to dig for the links right now but a quick search would still most likely confirm this.
Now why doesn't this crap ever happen to the Sunstein family?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2015/12/28/federal-judge-drinking-tea-shopping-at-a-gardening-store-is-probable-cause-for-a-swat-raid-on-your-home/
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Ahh good old mind control.
"should be read with a Bernaysian perspective"
For anyone needing a Bernays refresher:
Rule from the Shadows - The Psychology of Power - Part 1Goebbels studied Bernays' Crystallizing Public Opinion
''They take viewers into wild, uncharted waters, analyzing Hollywood as a hotbed of ethnic bigotry and an obedient servant of Washington; the Charlie Hebdo cartoons as hate speech; Israel’s deadly invasion of Gaza in 2014 as a war crime; ISIS as less brutal than The American Armed Forces; and American Sniper as foremost a vehicle of ethnic hatred towards Arabs and Muslims.''
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"Gun control is a terrible idea. The Affordable Care Act is a disaster. The United States shouldn’t be doing a lot to combat climate change. Affirmative action is bad. The Barack Obama administration is a dismal failure. Ronald Reagan was great. The minimum wage should not be increased."
All of these things are undeniable truths (except Reagan, he was a bankster puppet too). The fact that politicians might exploit certain truths (rather than lies) just to gain public favor is not a revelation, nor is it something that needs a widely published study paper to be understood. This is an example of "intellectual idiocy".
We should ALL be embracing political incorrectness because the PC agenda is moronic, cultish, and thinly veiled cultural marxism. The positions politicians take on the issue are irrelevant to the underlying facts.
"We should ALL be embracing political incorrectness because the PC agenda is moronic, cultish, and thinly veiled cultural marxism. The positions politicians take on the issue are irrelevant to the underlying facts." This about sums it up perfectly. Thanks runningman.
When do you think Tim Cook will unleash another iproduct?
gun control? bah. a fake idea. evidence: every time gun control is mentioned, sales of guns go up. I have not even the faintest idea of how "gun control" could be even done, in the US
here in europe we have "gun control". does it "work"? the same way as illegal drugs. whoever wants them, gets them
and this opinion, btw, counts as politically incorrect, in this context
What a fetid gas bag...and that's a compliment!...
... but an insult to fetid gasbags
http://www.amazon.com/Conspiracy-Theories-Other-Dangerous-Ideas/dp/14767...
Think as you are told
Commies to the left of me, Fascists to my right... Here I am stuck in the middle.
Well which one you gonna choose?
You mean you're a pussy that has no thoughts in his head? Now is not the time for moderation. Now is an age of extremism. Get on board or get the fuck out of the way.
You sir are absolutely correct. Fascism is the correct ideology if you actually care about your Nation and race. I will NEVER support anything less than mass extermination of these neo-bolsheviks and their parasite "migrant/undocumented" invader pets. It's time for serious dismantlement of the "progressive" establishment. Through their actions they have proven that they don't have any right to exist.
It's literally us or them. Kill or be killed. Most people aren't ready to accept this truth. The issue is being forced on the Europeans as we speak.
There is no middle.
There never has been.
There never will be.
You are either a communist or you work for them in capitalism.
Thats why the jews and their shabbos goys destroyed ze Nazies and made an example out of them.
So dipshits like you could come to half baked conclusions.
So you work for them, weither you think you do or not.
Its most troubling to watch you idots squirming in your cognitive dissonance.
I choose liberty and free will which is not a choice we have today in the political or social spectrum. Never got the chance to experience Capitalism as it has never been a choice nor has existed in my lifetime,,, only disguised versions of socialism, fascism, so I am stuck in the middle working for my self while trying hard not to vomit from all the right vs left bullshit. This election cycle has on display the feces of humankind in which,,, as you say,,, we have to choose. I choose not to choose. It is not cognitive dissonance you observe, it's cognitive terror wondering how supposedly intelligent beings can be led so easily.
Well in your situation, you don't suffer from cognitive dissonance.
You are just full of shit.
Please read LakeCity's reply to you,,, seems appropriate.
Sorry. I don't take requests.
Hey Ghost,
I agree so let me through something out there that might cause some cogdis.
jooz mogan yanked funding from Nicholos Tesla about 1906 which in my opinion was the greatest disservice to mankind ever.
jooz on jeckell island created the fed 1913 starting the next level of totally enslaving the ussa and then the world.
I'm sure there is more in between, not enough room here.
What if Hitlers regime and WW2 was actually financed by the jooz bankster money to "create" the "holocaust" and "white guilt" that is still being pushed on us today?
Just Sayin that the winners of wars write the history.
"What if Hitlers regime and WW2 was actually financed by the jooz bankster money to "create" the "holocaust" and "white guilt" that is still being pushed on us today?"
Hitler printed his own notes based on LABOR and actually jailed a bankster slimeball rothchild.
Hitler was totally politically incorrect.
Politicall correctness is for Capitalism and Communism, which is just kissing cousins.
Every Billionare is a communist.
In fact, the richer people get the more they seem to want everyone else to be poor.
Why is that?
Ghost,
I didn't say Hitler was in on it. He just had his vision.
Like the current wars, do you think those muzzies know where the money is coming from? As long as a means is provided to further their agenda, I doubt they even care. A muzzie is glad to kill a joo/whatever too.
And I don't think rich people want everone else poor, they just want "ALL THE POWER" which natually has to be taken from others in some form. The cycle we are in is self feeding of the greed and like a house on fire that burns faster and hotter, when all the fuel is consumed it will go out.
Money is power, thats why jews use it as leverage to keep the xtias fighting the islamic hordes.
jews are weak inferior inbreeders.
An army of jews is a logical fallacy.
But they will arm two armies and have them fight each other and gain the spoils.
"But they will arm two armies and have them fight each other and gain the spoils."
Ghost you are correct.
What do you think all this shit in the middle east is about other than the expansion of "greater isreal"
http://www.globalresearch.ca/greater-israel-the-zionist-plan-for-the-mid...
Just don't understand why they want all that fn desert.
"Oy vey, a small percentage of Jews are in danger of having to actually work for a living. Claiming to be "holocaust survivors" is starting to look a little ridiculous 80 years after the end of WW2. And not all of us can be a Kosher food inspector (a 6 figure job). Let's create a bureau of internet censorship and counter-free speech operations where good Jewish mensch can get their 6 figure job trolling the hateful anti-semitism of spiteful goyim."
"That's a good idea Moishe, let's tell our good Jewish friend Obama to make it happen."
"Shalom!"
Hey Willy,
The HoloCard is in the same deck as the RaceCard, both jokers and trump the WhitePrivilegeCard every time.
Get the pun?
He has been known about for more than 8 years. Where the fuck have you been
Is this some tortured logic or am I missing the gist of Sunstink's argument??
Sunstein opinion is an opinion that does not say anything. But that's not the point. Look at all the tweet like comments made here by imbeciles spouting nothing but propaganda and political correctness of their own making. It's no different than the example that Sunstein shows of college students shutting out anything that disagrees with their own political correctness.
I bet this total fuckstick does not even realize he is a Fascist. Probably thinks "it's good for the chiren."
We have got to bounce out an awful lot of fucksticks. Herr Sunstein, Zionista, needs to be at the top of the list. Another fuck who considers himself one of the Master Race.
Another?
jews have always claimed to be the "chosen people".
Been that way for 2000 years. Look it up, simpleton.
You are just another florida idiot raised on holohoax propaganda with fake outrage and cognitive dissonance.
Do me a favor and cut off your head so we have less carbon, assholio. I am in India, you tool.
lol...
When did you move?
Wasn't it you telling us about your arsenal of guns?
Why lie now?
If you knew anything about guns, you woule know what LakeCity55 refers to.
It aint in Florida, Copernicus.
It seems you are just posting to get upvotes.
It seems that you are too stupid to understand what he wrote.
I don't buy into the 'jews' crap.
Government is the weapon used by these monsters who wreak such havoc upon humanity.....
And they sure as fuck ain't all "jews".
Where there are minions there must be masters...
These people make me fucking sick. Power hungry fucks will stop at nothing to promote their agenda. Obama has got it down with this guy and his wife Samantha Power United States Ambassador to the United Nations. The Obama admin is the most corrupt, anti-American regime ever. Even more so than our enemies. Hell, he is helping our enemies. He is the enemy.
The Obama admin is the most corrupt, anti-American regime ever.
Until the next regime takes power. Clinton, Trump or any of the other dwarfs. It makes no difference.
This guy is straight out of Bernays' Propaganda.
The only credible comment he makes is "But there is a sham here". And it is you Mr. Sunstein. So, just crawl back under the Joo rock you came from.
ZH does a wonderful job when it exposes government bullshit. Comparing it to the Nazis' bullshit is exactly what needs to be done, time and time again. In that way, our rulers will lose all credibility, even with the sheep.
http://barlowscayman.blogspot.com/2012/08/marketing-skills-fail-wests-cr...
You've lost a bit of credibility yourself when you speak of "Nazis' bullshit" because it's becoming pretty clear that they were correct. jews are a serious problem. In fact, they are the most serious problem.
jews are everyones problems
for freedom, the most important information is the home address of those in power..that is why swat teams wear masks, prominent lawyers and judges addresses are hidden from public..much of DC lawmakers as well..that data base is the primary weapon for any real resistance.
if they are honest and patriots serving the constitution they should not fear the people..if they are corrupt dishonest enemies of the constitution they fear us and hide private information..
you will know them by the laws they use to control that information;
public enemy #1. the current white house usurper: his first act was to make his private history a state secret..you need know nothing more to judge him.
"if self-interested people want to show that they are independent, their best strategy is to be politically incorrect, and to proclaim loudly that’s what they are being."
Hmmmmm. Is the opposite true???
"if altruistic people want to show that they are subserviant, their best strategy is to be politically correct, and not to proclaim too loudly that’s what they are being."
I call BULLSHIT
What an exercise of circular logic using bad assumptions.
Refusal to be manipulated is not manipulation.
Oh wow. This guy is so full of shit he can't open his mouth without turds falling out - there's just no other way to put it.
Fuck the US Government. They are are completely out of control and have crossed "My Redline!" The United States of America is made-up of it's Citizens. Our Elected officials work for us. Not the Fucking Corporations/Banksters. FUCK, FUCK and FUCK THEM!
Rant over.
Why do so many old Jews look and act like the Nazis in their 1930s rise to power? How's that for irony.
I don't need this piece of shit subverting rights that my family has fought to preserve in real wars over the past 100 years (including liberating his tribe's ass from his friend Hitler in the 1940s--a skirmish from which my uncle did not return).
Sunstein is a treasonous threat to the First Ammendment.
Fuck you in the ass, Sunstein, and your neocon bitch.
This is what 'Progressivism' looks like.
It's all about globalism now buddy. Neocon is useful as a term if a Fabian Socialist faggot CIA actor wasn't playing the role of 'president' of the united states government.
Call it what you want...LOL.
Sure looks like communism to me.
Because the old world was a hard place full of hard people. "Extremists" of all sorts. The world kind of calmed down for a bit after the horrors of WW2 but we are sufficiently removed from that historical impression upon the collective unconscious that we are again entering an age of mass warfare and slaughter. In fact, we're already in it. European citizens are only starting to get with the program (see: the fires rising in the European far right). Soon everyone will have to choose, and there won't be any "moderates" amongst the options.
So the Japanese are giving us another interpretation of "Game Theory" to explain the irrational behavior of a ranting lunatic that controls us?...
Cass Sunstein and his lovely Irish bitch Zionist/DOS "mouthpiece" Sam Power...
Mazel Tov!
But not for much longer!!!
Sociopath in Chief.
Something is politically correct only because a majority of people appear to believe it is true, whether or not it is true. By definition, then, being politically incorrect is to tilt against what a majority believes to be "acceptable". I don't know if that rises to the level of "brave", but it certainly isn't cowardly and, most important, it is absolutely essential behavior in a free society.
For those old enough to remember, there was a time when opposition to the Vietnam War was very politically incorrect --- except on college campuses. If you stood up at a local council meeting and voiced such a belief, you would be shunned, or worse. If you said the same thing at Berkeley in 1967, crowds would form to support you. So whether an opinon is "politically correct" usually depends on the politics of the group to which it is voiced.
It appears to me that the author isn't saying anything other than that. Not particularly insightful, but not rising to the level of "propaganda" IMHO.
"...if self-interested people want to..."
Is there any other kind? So called "progressives" are the people who refuse to admit this basic truth, so they can then rationalize their penchant for telling other people what to do.
Is that why republicans took us to war in Iraq?
Cause they cared about the safety and security of the 'merican public?
Yeah....and don't forget the Democrats, who voted for it with enthusiasm....just what their masters wanted.
Get you head out of your partisan ass, and wake up.
BOTH "sides" wanted Iraq....BOTH.....
I was pointing out the hypocricy of the right son.
What hypocricy? Everyone knew we went into Iraq to maintain control of their oil and gas. Dick Cheney basically admitted it. People on the left can't handle the "truth", so they make up some feel-good reason for their own lust for power. They are the greater hypocrites.
Rubio supports an increase in the minimum wage. So this whole article is bullshit.
You're showing the political correctness you're attempting to shun by questioning leftist shibboleths?
The assumption here is whether the leftist shibboleth is the only correct view.
Also, there's an advantage to a political candidate of the opposite party to call out the incumbent party's presidential policy. Holy fucking shit. This changes EVERYTHING!!!
Have Jews becomes the Nazis?
Have Jews become the Nazis?
Political correctness is really just herd psychology pushed by insecure people who desperately seek social conformityLearn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/052462_political_correctness_herd_psychology_social_conformity.html#ixzz3vufK2yiK
Insecure people don't push anything. Bullies with an agenda push things, so quit trying to down play it as harmless. Think about it.
Dear DHS,
We have curruption in the Obama White House administration. Please investigate.
If You See Something, Say Something™ | Homeland Security
So being politically incorrect is actually being politically correct. Then whose on first...?
Susstein's essay is just overintellectualized nonsense. Isn't worth reading or thinking about. Not even well written.
This is just the kind of intellectual drivel that has taken over and confused our kids. He's really trying to say that political incorrectness is a self serving behavior because all there really is is political correctness. He is saying that political correctness is the reality regardless of anything else and it is impossible to genuinely believe in political incorrectness like Donald Trump for example. The piece is an attempt to undernlmine the motives of those who seek to criticize political correctness. The Left needs political correctness to mainstream their agenda.
Don't forget that the Left always attacks the Messenger first in the hope that the message never gets appreciated or discussed.
You had me until the last two sentences. Susstein and his wife Samantha Power act like neo-Nazis, and therefore are neo-Nazis who hide in leftist clothing. Judge the political class by what they do, not by what they say, and definitely do not judge them by the labels they use to describe themselves. The left-right dichotomy is a false dichotomy used to distract, confuse, and defraud the sheeple.
Perhaps it is more accurate to say The World Government Adherents than just Leftists because the World Government Totalitarian movement includes neo-cons who purport to be conservative at the same time, people like Jeb Bush, Lindsay Graham, and John McCain.
Yea, we are getting the squeeze from both sides. Only a world depression can save us, that is, depriving these people of the money to carry out their World Government agenda.
intellectual drivel that has taken over and confused our kids...
Its' premise that it takes a couple of Asian math experts to figure out that US political speech is used to garner popularity is pretty funny though, you have to admit. I would suggest their time and efforts might be better spent in addressing mathmatical issus like radiation levels at the upcoming Olympics and what the Yen will be worth next month.
jmf.
F**king asshole.
This Bernays shit is all about playing on emotions rather than logic.
It's old school sales tactics based on things that even American sheep are starting to become more immune to.
It's snake oil salesman smarmy and you can spot this a hundred miles away without knowing a damn thing on the subject. It's always couched in smarmy terms and that's the tell.
Someone telling you the truth which is what is now starting to catch on is also easily spottable because at least half the time it's probably going to challenge your worldview.
Look the only thing holding up these people and their arrogant PC bullshit is a subset of psychophants that benefit from the current alignment of things but they don't really do anything that's the key they aren't committed to this in terms of being active they just sign on to this bullshit because it works for them.
The way you break that isn't to tell them how bad everything is even if it is the way you get through to people is by showing them what's in it for them.
So if you are trying to convince a person on bogus disability how we can all work hard and have a better life you are more than wasting your time you are a God damned ongoing comic tragedy.
Never going to get everyone so focus on those you can reach.
Will you guys stop the jooish bullshit. I have news for you. A few Jews run banks. Others are laywers or politicians. Some of those are truly immoral and dishonest disgusting people.
But that is a tiny minority of Jews in north america and Europe. Most are just people trying to raise their families and live their life.
No I am not Jewish and I await the flurry of red arrows. Bring it on you racist motherfuckers.
"No I am not Jewish and I await the flurry of red arrows. Bring it on you racist motherfuckers."
jews rule over 'merica with the federal reserve its not "racist" to tell the truth.
But it is politically incorrect to talk about the jew.
Fuck off with your political correctness bullshit argument. If you can come up with actual criticism rather than stupid slurrs post them. But your argument, whatever it is about is shot to shit the moment you post some stupid joooish statement.
Sorry. I don't do requests.
You got your down arrow from me. I'm proud to be a racist motherfucker in this day and time.
No one will talk about it but a large reason for anti-semitism, particularly in this environment in which we seem to be racing towards Marxist Totalitarian World Government, is the existence of the Protocol of the Elders of Zion, a piece from I believe the 1800s, explaining how Jews will take over the world. Saul Alinsky borrowed from it heavily. It is Marxist. Obama has implemented a lot of it. Check it out.
Most historians believe the document to have been fabricated by Czar Nicholas to foment hatred of Jews in pre Bolshevik Russia. As do I. A study of turn of the century Russia shows the Czar was desperate to stop the tide of Jewish Marxism. And no, Saul did not borrow heavily from it and no Obama has not implemented any of it. It has also been altered through the years.
Political correctness is simply an excuse that people use when they wish to avoid any discussion of an uncomfortable topic. By using the PC strategy, they can shut down their opponents without ever having to address the points they bring up.
It's not brave, it isn't even chickenshit. It's just a ruse they use when they don't HAVE an argument but want you to shut up. It's deceptive, self-righteous censorship.
The politically-correct are frauds. They run and hide from the discussion because they cannot mount an intelligent rebuttal, so they try to discredit you and make your argument irrelevant by showing how it is "biased".
Of course, they won't tell you exactly HOW it is biased, because they can't. So they argue that the very fact that you are MAKING that argument demonstrates your bias, so they can avoid addressing that, too.
Funny, but these people tend to be extremely racist and patronizing themselves...they actually treat blacks and other minorities with less respect than the ones who are honest about their concerns. As if they are some kind of Great White Hope for all these poor, oppressed folks, and not part of the problem themselves.
Giving them decent jobs is much harder than patting them on the head and handing them some government cheese while you put on your fake "compassionate-face" and tell them how sorry you feel for them.
I agree, and I'd add that in my opinion It's an offshoot or subtle version of an ad hominem attack .
It subtley attacks the character of the messenger and deflects the message. It defines the borders of the discussion and defends them without any effort on the part of the party using the PC hammer.
I could be the worst human being on earth, literally objectively terrible, without one damned redeeming quality but if I tell you that your car is on fire and your " ______________ insert racial slur here" kids are screaming for help are you going to dismiss that?
No because one thing has no bearing on the other and that's why to have free speech you have let the other party speak.
FREELY!
Here are some examples: Gun control is a terrible idea. The Affordable Care Act is a disaster. The United States shouldn’t be doing a lot to combat climate change. Affirmative action is bad. The Barack Obama administration is a dismal failure. Ronald Reagan was great. The minimum wage should not be increased.
This ruins the argument. All examples are true and factual. Conservatives do disagree on issues not so obviously factual.
I sincerely hope that I live long enough to see these assholes swinging from a lamp post.
These guys are world class wan*ers....just when you don't think they could trawl the depths of wa*kerdom any further, they manage to come with more sh*t!
I'm sick and tired of these so called "liberals" giving those with sympathy for some aspects of socialism a bad name, such as those that believe in monopsony healthcare available to all free at the point of delivery. These people haven't taken on board any any elements of left libertarianism, they are nothing but the worst sort of totalitarians!
PC is a freedom of speech gag.....which will be injected with steroids once thw Chinese social lackey points system is rolled out worldwide
Cass Sunstein
A smoldering piece of dog shit, all steamy from just leaving the asshole of a mutt
This shit-eating cunt should be taken out and beat up.
Jewish,...ofcourse!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cass_Sunstein
It's not the 'Jew' blood, its the liberal commie blood.
Liberals are a disease and are destroying the entire world.
They are dumb mother fuckers.
They have either never lived in the real world, protected by wealth, or are the laziest of humanity expecting others to work in order to support their lazy dumb asses.
Obama's communism is what's in nowadays. Jailing people for hate talk.
Abolishing free speech.
The youth want socialism/communism.
What the Left learned from Pol Pot is that you can give machine guns to 12 and 14 year old boys and in a month of indoctrination, you can easily get them to kill their parents.
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What the Left learned from Pol Pot is that you can give machine guns to 12 and 14 year old boys and in a month of indoctrination, you can easily get them to kill their parents."
Nice tweet brah.
Pol pot killed everyone who was against his version of communism.
Capitalism is a form of communism. He was just getting rid if subversive entities who objected to his marxist style.
Opposames. Same as it ever was.
Yes, however, my point is that the Left learned that if you give youth a little taste of raw power, you can get them to do just about anything with the prospect of giving them a little more raw power. That's what the self-righteousness of PC is all about.
That is why they are setting up 'free speech zones' on campus - they want to export that commie shit into the real world.
Fuck them all
The BEST comeback for any asshole that uses the "PC" shit-stain
"THERE IS NOTHING CORRECT ABOUT BEING POLITICAL"
Try that next time some cunt tries to use PC shit language, or better yet, tries to "correct" you.
GReat rejoinder. Duly noted,
The real question is what is REAL political correctness? My opinion on ZH is NOT politically correct on anything as I almost never agree with what is being said here. If I was going to play along and support what is being said here I would be politically correct from this audience's perspective. But I do not, therefore I am the one who is BRAVE and the rest here are nothing but cowards supporting dying right wing old-white man's ideology.
What exactly is political correctness as viewed by the commentators here: it is simply anything that diminishes share of economic pie of WHITE PRIVILEGE. Hence minimum wage, Social Security, Medicare, Food Assistance are propagandized as communism and sharing of political power with white power structure is called as cultural Marxism. And that's the real truth.
good one, almost as good as MDB was........
No, this audience doesn't think the word correct can be modified to increase it's meaning. Just like the word justice is clearly understood, but social justice means nothing.
People like you want to pat themselves on the back for your compassionate thoughts. I'm compassionate in practice and rarely stop to pat myself on the back.
If you want to help the poor, then stop advocating the import of millions of low wage unskilled labor. If you want to help the poor, protest against the FEDs currency devaluation. The 1963 minimum wage is over$20 in today's dollar.
Absent fathers are strongly correlated with poverty, stop giving more money to single parents than families.
And loose the obsession with white people, racism makes any other argument void.
+100
Here are some examples: Gun control is a terrible idea. The Affordable Care Act is a disaster. The United States shouldn’t be doing a lot to combat climate change. Affirmative action is bad. The Barack Obama administration is a dismal failure. Ronald Reagan was great. The minimum wage should not be increased.
Gee, even he stumbled upon some thruths here. He confuses correctness with political correctness.
...he stumbled upon some thruths here. He confuses correctness with political correctness...
"...incur a kind of reputational tax"..."get an immediate reputational subsidy"...
It's pretty funny when even he makes a strong argument for the self evident idea that taxes and subsidies are used to carrot and stick stupid conduct. People deplore the use of either when their trust in those administering both share nothing in common with themselves. Edicts are rightfully attacked first by a "people yearning to be free".
jmf.
My he get throat cancer that burn till his last breath.
too easy - may he get thrown in jail with bubba and his 10 incher who rams his tonsils 3 times a day every day
Problem is that the politicians aint even politically correct so following their leadership, who decides what politically correct is?
The Ellsworth Tooheys.
Politically correctness is the whip to keep the indoctrinated sheeple moving toward the liberal pastures. It is a way to instill today’s brainwashed high school grads with continuous feedback from their omnipotent government.
Mixed in with old politically correct messages for the sheeple the liberals are now adding new politically correct messages for the sheeple to destroy the “old” society and center all power in liberal government. A simple example is firearms, in mass, threaten the powerbase of liberal government therefore firearms must be eliminated to increase the powerbase of government.
What politicians say is irrelevant. It is all about will the sheeple eventually wake up and rebel against this brainwashing and the unjust laws that subvert the constitution? Most say the brain washing will continue unabated because “…Rich men don’t Revolt…” meaning we risk giving up to much. So we will continue to be the frog in almost boiling water to be slowly boiled alive…
A parody of what politically correct "is".
1) Tokyo,Japan
0800-September 1,1945
To: President Harry S Truman
From: General D A MacArthur
Tomorrow we meet with those yellow-bellied bastards and sign the Surrender Documents, any last minute instructions?
(2) Washington, D C
1300-September 1, 1945
To: D A MacArthur
From: H S Truman
Congratulations, job well done, but you must tone down your obvious dislike of the Japanese when discussing the terms of the surrender with the press, because some of your remarks are fundamentally not politically correct!
(3) Tokyo, Japan
1630-September 1, 1945
To: H S Truman
From: D A MacArthur and C H Nimitz
Wilco Sir, but both Chester and I are somewhat confused, exactly what does the term politically correct mean?
(4) Washington, D C
2120-September 1, 1945
To: D A MacArthur/C H Nimitz
From: H S Truman
Political Correctness is a doctrine, recently fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and promoted by a sick mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a piece of shit by the clean end!
USA = Land of the Free Speech Gestapo!
Eternal Protectors of Scum-Bag Liberal Wussie Nation!
This year unfortunately I had many materials to cover as criminal putin regime still exists and expands it’s crimes. It’s quite depressing for world and those victims that suffers from criminal putin regime so let’s have some laugh at end of this year. And I hope next year will be end of criminal putin regime and there won’t be need for this blog.
Happy NEW year! 2016 – a year when criminal putin regime collapses!
14:08 06.08.2014 Russia Says West 'Shot Itself in Foot' by Imposing Sanctions on Moscow
“To be honest, the West is behaving inadequately. They are shooting themselves in the foot by imposing sanctions. You may lose a market in an hour but it may take decades to restore,” Rogozin wrote on his Facebook page.
Tuesday 29 December 2015 Deputy Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin 'shoots himself in the foot' after expressing support for NRA
Russia’s deputy Prime Minister has reportedly shot himself in the foot at a firing range just days after tweeting support for America’s National Rifle Association (NRA).
Dmitry Rogozin is said to be recovering while undergoing treatment for the bullet wound at a hospital in Moscow.
A source told Russia’s Interfax news agency he “accidentally shot himself” while training at a shooting range, causing him to miss a cabinet meeting with Vladimir Putin last week.
God is very quick these days - BlackadderBaltic Dementia is raging through Latvia, and you've come down with it.
Take two potatoes and call me in the morning.
Putin is just trying to represent the interests of his people. The Ukraine thing was about it possibly joining NATO and then the West putting nukes and missles on the Ukrainian border pointed at Moscow. Our media didn't report that. You think we'd like it if Russia or China put nukes in Tijuana, Mexico, pointed at us.
Crimea is 90% enthnic Russians so how dumb to criticize Russia for taking over it.
Too bad we don't have, and haven't had for years, a President that represents our interests as American citizens like Putin does with his people.
Putin is just trying to represent the interests of his people.
putin regime in eyes of ordinary russian seems to be doing right job by standing against everyone and everywhere. Seems is correct word, because he is not putting Russians and Russia in first place, because he:
Is that in interest of russians? I don’t think so.
I guess if you live long enough you get to see it all.
Its all just too funny at this point.
Hey Cass, try this on for political uncorrectness: FUCK YOU
Without Political Incorrectness we’d still be sipping faggot tea!
What we need is a citizen's committee to review--and approve or reject--everything this cunt Sunstein wants to publish. There will be no appeal.
The criteria will be based entirely on our personal whims. Is that OK with you, Cass Shitstain?
Take a flamethrow to Sunstein and his communists, and you permanently solve the problem.
Dude's gonna end up swinging from a lamppost.
Please stop abusing the heroes of nazi germany for your anglo zion parabel bullshit.
Stupid NeoCon Nazis.I hate Nazis in Washington:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsxwhRiiWtc
Does this cunt suck that whoring faggot Kenyan niggers cock.
Does this stupid cunt realize that every fucking dumb fucking word could be mirror imaged to level the exact same accusation at his fucking moronic shite.
Fuck off and die you dumb cunt.
There, is that politically incorrect enough for you nigger cock sucker
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Unless you are very naïve you cannot honestly compare politically popular positions among conservatives to the Stalinistic "political correctness" of modern progressives which has run amok in Western civilizations throughout all levels of society.
How PC of you.
Like right wing PC is not PC.
PC is only when the left does it.
Riiiiiiight.
Free The Clintons. Free Jon Corzine. Free Cass Sunstein. Free The Bushes. Free Sheldon Adelson. Free Lloyd Blankfein. Free The Obamas. Free Dick Cheney. Free John McCain. Free John Kerry. Free Eric Holder. Free George Soros. Free Madeleine Albright. Free Diane Feinstein.
Happy New 365.
Free Barry Soetero!
Boy if obama doesn't make caplitalism look spiritually bankrupt, I don't know what does.
Everyone get behind the war wheel and feel damn proud to be an american.
You just need to know who we're killing this week and who needs to be killed next week to be cool in school.
"It’s true that in some left-wing circles, especially on college campuses, political correctness is doing serious damage, because it entrenches a particular ideological orthodoxy (and dampens necessary dissent). In some places, you reject that orthodoxy at your peril"
"Did you call a transsexual person “he” or “she” when they preferred to be called “zhe?” According to a newly updated anti-discrimination law in New York City, you could be fined an eye-watering $250,000."
HARVARD was soooo much more credible as an institution of higher education when it was owned by the WASPs, like Derrick Bok. Unfortunately, first the Jews, and then the Chinese, had a maniacal obsession about the place. And so now we are confronted with creatures like Sunnstein and Powers, dedicated to propping up the status quo whence flows their status, allowing them and their descendents to permanently remain Fabian thought-leaders.
Interesting to note how at Harvard the jews gravitate towards social-engineering/government while the asians flock to the hard sciences. The jews on the east coast tend to have a huge chip on their shoulder about the old WASP elite and imagine that the WASPs somehow controlled everything. It was actually the opposite. Asians could care less about that shit-they just want to be rich, super filthy stinking rich. If you've grown up speaking and writing Mandarin, and you knew 3000 kanji characters by age 5, believe me, studying and testing up through fields like engineering and medicine is not too challenging.....
The analysis for Harvard admissions shows Whites to have a slightly lower admission ratio than their population and scores would warrant. But, very conveniently, Jews are happy to class themselves as White in this instance because were you to identify them separately they are over-represented vy a factor of about 8 while Whites are under-represented by a similar factor. Whites have allowed the institutions built by their ancestors be taken over by an ethnic group that most certainly does not have White interests at heart.
If Sunstein says it, its purpose is anti-freedom.
Political Correctness itself is a conspiracy theory, a covert attempt by a Socialist government to censor all vocal opposition.
Cass Sunstein and PC Founder Professor Stanley Fish birthed political correctness on America’s campuses, the latter authoring an essay in 1992 announcing that “There’s no such Thing as Free Speech and It’s a Good Thing Too.” “Good” became “the will of those in power.”
But it is backfiring; the truth eventually outs. As it is has with the “adult toddler” criticism of “Jew Jew (JJ) Abrams” and his social justice cast in Starwars. And it is beginning on America’s campuses as well as seen in the growth this past year of the BDS Movement.
The Palestinian BDS National Committee reports that 2015 was a landmark year for the BDS movement and has prepared a detailed round-up of victories over the past year.
“Not only did the movement demonstrate BDS can have a real economic impact on Israel,” it says, “Justice for Palestine has become a key issue for students and youth across the world and Israel’s reaction has shown this ‘soft’ power is having a real impact.”
This past January, the student government at the University of California Davis voted “in favor of a resolution to divest from corporations profiting from Israel’s occupation by a landslide. Student governments at seven of the nine colleges in the University of California system have voted to support BDS.
“During 2015, divestment votes were also won at San Jose State University, Princeton, Earlham College Student Senate and the University of Toledo, Ohio, Oglethorpe University and Stanford. And the UK National Union of Students joined the 30+ individual campus student unions that already support BDS .
“A classified report by the Israeli ministry of foreign affairs predicts continued growth for the BDS movement, according to Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, as former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak describes BDS as ‘a serious problem.’” - See more at: http://mondoweiss.net/2015/12/movement-year-review#sthash.OAuENkLS.dpuf
Cass STFU you are NWO war criminal...
One bullet, one Bolshevik. That's how we'll stop the cancerous tyranny.
I am so happy the firm I work for has decided to get rid of all our Bloomberg terminals.
Bloomberg news wouldn't last 5 minutes without ongoing subsidies from selling Bloomberg terminals to Wall Street -- Bloomberg LP admitted as much when the news division was ordered (by Bloomberg management) to scuttle a story critical of China. Whether one agrees with the ultra-liberal reporters or the entire country of China, the fact was that Bloomberg LP could not afford to have the Bank of China drop their terminals... which meant the nut cases at Bloomberg News would have to go suck it.
Since so many Wall Street jobs are disappearing, and the rest of us are cutting back on unnecessary expenses -- it won't be long before Bloomberg is forced to put their entire "news" division out to pasture where it belongs.
Bloomberg news is literally killing the hand that feeds them-- which tells you how "smart" they are
Great point. For further example, who with a brain really reads the NY Times anymore? It is just propaganda slop for the hogs............
Remember the weekly magazine "Businessweek"?
Legally, Bloomberg news bought Businessweek and merged them into the Bloomberg fold... technically, Businessweek's reporters won the corporate culture war.
I'd rather live under the orthodoxy where anyone can speak as they please without reprisal.
I don't trust Trump and the republitards; they're just a bunch of Johnny Come Lately's to the power grab initiated by the communists.
We need to be rid of BOTH parties, reassert the US Constitution and the Rule of Law.
Thoses are orthodoxies I can live with.
How did Goebbels meet his end?
Those who don't learn from the past will get drilled in the ass by it, Cass.
I say we assist Cass and his fellow communists meet their end.
One bullet, one Bolshevick. That's how we win.
Free speech is anti-semitic. Germany sends holocaust doubters to jail. Is the USA next ?
They also sent a guy to jail for traning his dog to raise his paw when he said 'Heil Hitler'. Fact!
Just seen a new T-shirt the other day.
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"formally hire credible private parties to engage in counterspeech,"
Speech, counterspeech, counter counterspeech, counter counter counterspeech. A conversation.
"When is a politician lying? Their lips are moving".
Happy Hanuka Cass. Please remove the nine candles from the pitchfork, make a bundle with them, and shove them up your ass (Cass has the word ass in it so I'm being politically correct)