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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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Sunstein is just another in a long line of Jew, Socialist-Communist, Money grubbing scum that walks this earth when he should be exterminated. These yids are so ignorant and do not respect history. They hate every Non-Jew on earth. Their money is the only thing that keeps them from being persectued again. Only time will tell if people will have the guts to rid this world of these fucks.
It boils down to a fucked up government that doesn't care about the Constitutional United States Laws or democracy.
Welcome to Global Governance. We warned. Live with your mistakes. I hope you like living a slave.
Key & Peele - Auction Block
It's very very simple - do you prefer to be
a) politically correct but factually incorrect, or
b) politically incorrect and factually correct ?
I pick b for the same reason I eschew religion. It asks me to bypass my intellect.
Theodor Hertzl said we need "anti-semitism" to further our zionist agenda.
Ding, ding. Same zionist cunts. I will pull up their bible shortly. Exposure is best.
Cass Joostein
http://www.truetorahjews.org/
because it is not nice to call a faggot a faggot, a cunt a cunt, a nigger a nigger and a kike a kike. can't we all just get along?
it may not be nice but it feels gooooood.
Cass Sunstein can go eat a bag of dicks. Try this on for size Cass, go tongue punch your faggot nigger boss's fart box, you beady eyed kike. Was that politically incorrect enough for your communist sensibilities?
OK - I'm guessing that tonight's dinner seating chart with you between Sheky Goldstein and Chantelle Jefferson is a mistake?
I'd be polite, professional, and have a plan to kill everybody in the room. Barring fellow Marines of course. ????
I'm thinking --- Gen Mattis? Anyway - great rant and HNY.
so one of the most sociopathic of the zionazis is telling us that the cruz and trump are manipulating the voting public with their antipc speak while glossing over the original assertion that pc people are automatically considered sociopathic manipulators(hitlery comes to mind).
he forgot to add criticizing jews, even though most people might agree with the assertions, is sure career suicide. that is one pc law that might have to change in a real gas chamber.
These ogres always seem to come in pairs:
Bill & Hillary; Nudelman & Kagan; Cass & Samantha....
It's as if there's a conveyor-belt coming up from the pit of hell.
Gog & Magog
Herod Antipas & Herodias
The chief Porch Monkey and *anybodies* anus and/or penis
Don't leave Reggie out............that's not very nice!
you forgot Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn. Oh, but I fogot, they are communists with a small "c" according to them.............that doesn't count. Only the big "c" counts.............
Diaries of Theodor Herzl reveal a Zionist plan to backstab Turkey ...
It's not politically correct to be religious anymore and while I'm not a Christian I was raised as such and I do absolutely believe in God although sometimes we seem to disagree I'm counting on her to not let us all down here:)
In my opinion I don't think you can think of the world in non-spiritual terms and arrive at anything approaching freedom. God is freedom because God is order and truth. God imparts meaning and if not through religious dogma then the best bible the world has ever seen, the world we live in which is, to me at least, the ultimate spiritual teaching ground.
It seems that the first order of business for modern humanistic PC tyranny is to forget God. Now I'm not harping here like most do and telling you what you should or should not believe far from that. What I'm saying is that if we take the supposition that there is nothing higher or above man then that's step one to tyranny in current form. In the past tyranny has most assuredly used God as it's starting point but that's RELIGION not spirituality, spirituality is individual in nature at it's heart, it's the individuals own way in the world that can only be experienced on an individual level and we owe each and every person the right to pursue their own path.
I think there is a very real danger here that as we exit the former God based religious tyrannies that we're more than ripe for the humanistic PC bullshit brand of tyranny.
It's an easy sell after the past sins of religion have piled up so much disgust with God. In reality I think if people consider this they may agree with me that what was really going on was men acting like arbiters of God and deriving their powers falsely from that. I can applaud throwing that off in as much as I would applaud throwing off any falseness but I would also caution against throwing out a great deal of truth in the process.
Without some idea of a higher power than man then it's right back to the survival of the most determined and in large groups that would be those who are most self assured that they have a higher and better understanding of what the world needs which is really just what THEY need couched and cloaked in faux concern for others.
True concern for others would start with the supposition that one must be free to pursue their own path to the greatest extent possible in order to pursue their own happiness. It would start with the understanding that we can't know what's right for others only that we must protect and guard their rights as we would our own for the greater good of society.
Modern humanism places man squarely at the apex of thought and as mankind is fallible then so to will be their dicates. Worse than that the most spiritually berefet of us in society will gravitate towards leadership and the power it bestows.
Historically what we're going through is not that bad in terms of pure tyranny. It's systemic but not yet terribly oppresive, however the directional vectors are decidedly bad and what's worse in my mind is the postion we find ourselves in with accelerating technological capabilities rendering and increasing probability that falling into tyranny this time won't be as much a teaching tool but a permanent hellish prison cell for personal liberty.
What's most disheartening though is not that they can truly conquer our spirit, at the end of the day that is the only possession any of us have that is involate, that which can never be conquered or taken away. The shame of it all is the opportunity cost of what will be lost, that we all won't be free to experience all of the world in our own way.
I can imagine a world where this is not so. In this world I'm imagining people are free, problems come and go, but personal meaning flows freer.
I can imagine a world where we value those qualities in people that improve all our experiences and we move away from those that prey on us and foment misery and hate.
I can imagine a world where the human spirit is free to explore creation in all it's wonders and not spend all it's energies reasserting it's God given rights.
Happy New Year!
abrahamic religionuts are the scourge of mankind. the torah, bible and koran are the most dangerous books ever written.
if you want real spirituality turn to buddha. he is serious about peace and loving kindness. you abrahamics like the blood of man a little too much.
Wait until I show you how they shifted labor under today's same pretense.
https://archive.org/stream/theodorherzlfoun00cohe/theodorherzlfoun00cohe...
Sunstein lost his job as "Goebbels" for one simple reason I suspect.
He's not very clever and not very convincing. Would anyone who questions PC do a double take and reconsider after reading this? I doubt even 1 would.
Now I do suspect all the posts making this about Jews might be working for Sunstein...classic diversion and deligitimacy of dissent tactic...lol. Not really well done though...pretty transparent. Sunstein fails based on his own work...not his ethnicity.
Sabbatai Zwi said if we create pure evil in this world, the jewish messiah will come to rule.
He's gonna have a hard time. The tide is turning. The pendulum is swinging back. I was chatting with a guy in the sauna yesterday and after a discussion on PCness, he said he's tired of walking around like a pussy. He said he's going to start saying what he really thinks but not being a dick about it. It's too much brain damage to constantly be concerned about offending anyone. I wholeheartedly agreed and pledged to continue to do so unabated. I usually speak my mind when someone asks me what I think. Some people might get hurt but that's too bad. I'm honest and am not good at acting like I give a shit about some things when I really don't. It's up to you to carry the torch of honesty and integrity. The problem with PCness is that it creates loopholes for assholes who refuse to take responsibility for their stupidity.
The problem is that it can cost you your job. Exactly like in the old USSR.
pc is, "your feelings are my problem". nonpc is, "your feelings are your problem not mine". that is the way it is suppose to be. sociopaths like sustein use pc as a political tool to silence dissent.
Sunstein is a fucking retard. None of his examples of Republican political correctness are examples of any form of political correctness. These "examples" are policy statements and truncated policy statements at that.
people are basically tired of watching convenience store thieves resist arrest and provoke the police into confrontations which are then characterized as racially biased by the president and the media.
they may or may not be, its a separate issue. i am a member of an oppressed class therefore i am a criminal. to say that denies the basis of our system, so it is anti-american.
some candidate, (trump?) may say at some point, mr president i don't care if you are blue green or yellow, you are a lousy president, if you are inclined to help others hide behind their color what does that make you? politically correct.
It's all about niggardly.
TIME OUT. The definition is more like: PCness is an attempt to not offend anyone at the expense of stating reality.
Is it just me or does the author CHANGE the definition of Political Correctness.
None of his examples are PC examples:
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.
PCness is an attempt to not offend anyone at the expense of reality. There are no more short people, no more liars (just big imaginations).
If a liberal changes the definition, it is ONLY FAIR to change the spelling as well.
Sunstein wrote:
Democracy and the Problem of Free Speech (1993)
and
Why Societies Need Dissent (2003)
He must be a good lawyer. It's not about being right or wrong. It's about being able to take either side and prevailing.
What-a country.
Man would I love to catch ol Cass on level playin field. Its never gonna happen.
One thing these guys cant do is let their BS be questioned. It wont fly past any basic logical grilling.
Freely speaking, speaking about "politically correct" speech is not longer politically correct!
It shows that the Rep. prez candidates have no real ideas with real solutions (other than gun rights, tax cuts, and cutting spending except defense).
They can't just blame the MSM, because they rely on a parasitic relationship!
Blaming Dems and Obama is ALWAYS politically correct! Though it is not politics. It is whining.
And, oh yes, "radical Islam"!
attention Anti-Semites: now you'll have to eat your words
Yum. Yum.
Greps
Bid the Soldier - Ill take the Ten Commandments over the food. Like the Pledge of Allegience those had to go on court house steps!
For understanding, the Torah is the first five books of the bible. It says the same thing as most guide bools on society management. dont lie cheat, steal, murder or fuck another guys wife. What is so hard to understand?
Or Christ sumamarizing: Love your neighbor as yourself. You Jews failed and didnt listen. Again. So when Israel gets attacked expect limited assistence so you wise up. Yahweh agrees. Sarc off.
Now I dont condemn any race, but if you expect to push all costs onto the rest of us no matter what the reason that is delusion and the whirlwind will be reaped. Welcome to evolution which Moses himself outlined in the chain of species in Genesis. I like Maiomides who also seemed to have clear understanding. So it isnt about a race, its about your behavior.
You have to hold your tribe to account as we do Americans with our government or "we" face collective punishment. What we all may want regarding that part of evolution does seem to matter. So yeah, glad we're nearly done with 3D evolution. But first. Epic violence.
RD
Earlier I reminded Raymond_K._Hessel that he forgot to add sarc at the end of his comment and an hour later I did the same thing.
(facepalm)
But first
If Jews do not accept Christ as their Messiah, why would they take to heart his statement: "love thy neighbor as thyself." Examine the 1900 years after His death and how Christians loved their neighbors as themselves. Not.
Israel will be held to account for all its selfish, evil acts the same same way America has been held to account for all its evil wars of territorial procurement. sarc
I believe in a God who, along with a million differences between Him and the long-timers, has two opposite ends in store for us. No, I don't mean heaven and hell, because they are not ends; they are eternal and therefore do not exist.
It was man's vanity (and a way to increase membership in Christianity) that the early PR people created heaven and hell and the ability to join God in eternity. Humbug.
In my religion, two neighbors, about the same age, one good, the other bad, will experience the end of life, the good one happily, the bad one unhappily.
You probably want to know how God, given the world situation, can affect two neighbors living next door to each other polar oppositely. I don't know the answer.
But I do know that it is another vanity of man that he thinks he can know everything God knows. And if he can't understand it, then God can't do it.
To return to Israeli cooking.
It goes without saying that Israeli cuisine is one of the worst on the planet. Of all the Jewish dishes I've tasted, matzoh brie (softened matzoh scrambled with eggs served pancake style) is the best.
But I'm sure its taste has a great deal to do with the unlimited maple syrup and strawberry jam you put on it.
Most ashkenazi food is based around boiled meat and boiled potatoes.
Sefaradi food tends to be better but overall its not that different from arabic food.
Israeli food is essentially arabic food.
The Israelis took Arabic recipes and acted like they invented them.
What else is new?
When I was in Bulgaria in the 70's, I had pork schnitzel and it was cooked pink.
It was so delicious, now it's the only way I like pork.
To borrow from the left: when I speak politically incorrectly I am also "speaking truth to power".
It is interesting how a description of the narrative changes depending from which mouth it is spewed ... I have found that I am so Right, I am almost Left
The problem with political correctness is it tries to convolute a civic problem into one of race or religion.
Nothing is more bigoted than those who espouse such drivel.
When civics fail civil discourse fails.
So more counter cyclical policy then Suss?
It's called political correctness because those in politics do t want us to properly describe the giant shit burger they are trying to feed us all. Just like you can't call people who break into this country ILLEGALLY Illegal immigrants. They are supposed to be referred to as undocumented democrats, uh I mean Americans. If you call them illegal your are called a racists. DOES THIS SIUND FAMILIAR CASS YOU SCUMBAG!!!
Dare anyone to call the ACA socialized medicine because if you do you're labeled as want women and children to go without healthcare. How dare anyone properly describe what planned parenthood is, black genocide. If you do the. It's a war on women.
Go try and NUDGE someone else you pinko commie fucknut statist!!!
For the record I tried.
They force-fed us this fucking Cuntstein in law school. He basically calls for restructuring the entire legal system to comport with his own twisted system of beliefs. I always pushed back with Stigler and was for the most part ignored. The younger generation lack discernment and suck this bullshit up though.
Sustein is just another kike out to control the Goy with the tool called "political correctness".
When will the lemmings wake up and expel these zionist kikes that are conspiring to destroy this Republic?