tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post113100457676702558..comments2024-03-22T11:55:50.335+13:00Comments on Not PC: Political Correctness: A classic documentary now onlinePeter Cresswellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10699845031503699181noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-21380477069115011702008-11-25T06:13:00.000+13:002008-11-25T06:13:00.000+13:00America's economic model was and is inconsistent i...America's economic model was and is inconsistent in this regard. Further, how do you "capitalize on the poor?"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-84717544979294964912008-09-18T06:49:00.000+12:002008-09-18T06:49:00.000+12:00The solution to PC is simple: American multilingua...The solution to PC is simple: American multilingualism. Try to argue Political Correctness' worth and value to someone with 4 or 5 or 6 languages in their head. You won't win. I promise. <BR/><BR/>Check out my blog: www.chalectures.blogspot.com. <BR/><BR/>Opposition of viewpoints in a cultural milieu are as important as competitive brands in a marketplace. The friction (verbal or financial) causes heat. The heat causes malleability. The malleability causes change and growth. The change and growth are only as totalitarian as the agents of change themselves are. I.E. People make business and government go. If the people driving those large conceptual constructs are totalitarian in nature, then the systems they build will reflect this. If those same people are peaceful and sharing in nature, then those systems they construct will reflect that. <BR/><BR/>Anthropologists call this journey into friction or into "heat" a "liminal period". <BR/><BR/>A young brave goes into the woods, battles with nature and the elements, comes out a warrior, leaves behinds the silly trappings of childhood. <BR/><BR/>"Dragons live forever, but not so little boys. Paper wings and giants' rings give way to other toys." -Puff the Magic Dragon<BR/><BR/>I may have misquoted the song a little. <BR/><BR/>Read "Iron John" by Robert Bly for a nice account of America's lack of true masculinity and then think about PC as you read. You'll put the pieces together. A nice counterpart book for Iron John is called Drowning Ophelia. I forget the author. You can Google it yourself! :)Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14938336789926691312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-59556325424519497662008-07-21T14:41:00.000+12:002008-07-21T14:41:00.000+12:00With lack of a clear outlet for my views on Libert...With lack of a clear outlet for my views on Libertarianz, I'm going to post this here as it appears you are affiliated with this political party.<BR/><BR/>Libertarianz is advocating ceasing welfare for the elderly and invalid. They want to sell all of our state owned assets. I would assume the supporters are mad but I believe they're reasonably wealthy and would like to remove the last vesitges of altruism we have in society (albeit obligatory) so as to keep their WHOLE paycheck - and maybe capitalise further on the poor in society. Have they learned nothing from America's economic model? The party is misguided and obviously ultra-capitalist, bordering on anarchic. I think the poll results will reflect this.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17260120085336390381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-55394691954557384022008-07-16T11:31:00.000+12:002008-07-16T11:31:00.000+12:00Political correctness is the last refuge of critiq...Political correctness is the last refuge of critique of the intellectual left from the clueless right. PC doesn't exist of course, it has been invented by the right, it doesn't appear in any socialist, feminist or green philosophy.<BR/><BR/>The right believes freedom = marketplace. Markets are stupid, make the rich richer and the poor poorer and there are no free markets anywhere, especially in national socialist USA where farmers and cars are completely protected, with massive government funding.<BR/><BR/>How could a real market place support the inefficiency of the pentagon?<BR/><BR/>So in order to have a critique -you invent one -hence PC.<BR/><BR/>The best critique of the right is GET SMART! and rightest control post S11.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-67785143430142600182008-04-04T19:42:00.000+13:002008-04-04T19:42:00.000+13:00I mean realise instead of release! Remember to alw...I mean realise instead of release! Remember to always poof-read.<BR/><BR/>Cheers,<BR/>PaulAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-49162812498294120442008-04-04T19:39:00.000+13:002008-04-04T19:39:00.000+13:00You do release Orwell was a socialist. And I agree...You do release Orwell was a socialist. And I agree with jp, political correctness is the most Orwellian term since joy camp.<BR/><BR/>So National gets in and pc gets out. And we watch as being un-pc, becomes the new pc. Morons!<BR/><BR/>Orwell is rolling in his grave.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-48330301721806039522008-02-24T12:52:00.000+13:002008-02-24T12:52:00.000+13:00I listened to the programme and read some of the a...I listened to the programme and read some of the articles on your website with interest.<BR/><BR/>I am somewhat puzzled however by the fact that very few people, even within the 'liberal elite' actually call themselves 'PC'. It seems that opposing 'PC' is in fact the reason why the term is fervidly kept into existence.<BR/><BR/>Demonizing 'PC' and connecting it to liberal intellectuals, the intellectual elite, or as the documentary says 'evil people' turns a gross generalisation with a right-winged agenda into a democratic duty. This critique leaves no place for other critique. It simply and falsely claims to be pluralist and thus kills pluralism.<BR/><BR/>Is your over-usage of 'PC' not an Orwellian twist in itself? Is 'Not PC' not just Newspeak for right-winged anti-intellectualism, anti-liberalism. Or an example of another Orwellian mechanism: fabricating an ill-defined enemy in a state of fictitious war?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-54998096698716553772008-02-06T12:55:00.000+13:002008-02-06T12:55:00.000+13:00No defensive finger-pointing and name-calling will...<I>No defensive finger-pointing and name-calling will ever change the fact that you attack the values of others only to endorse the values which are dear to yourself.</I><BR/><BR/>You say that like it's a bad thing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-61992904420532970032007-12-21T09:33:00.000+13:002007-12-21T09:33:00.000+13:00Of course those with whom we disagree are always p...Of course those with whom we disagree are always politically correct. They are politically correct simply because they are unable to adhere to our own political correctness. You hate political correctness? You are politically correct. No defensive finger-pointing and name-calling will ever change the fact that you attack the values of others only to endorse the values which are dear to yourself.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-1131086158652259092005-11-04T19:35:00.000+13:002005-11-04T19:35:00.000+13:00Is Political correctness the bastard offspring of ...Is Political correctness the bastard offspring of postmodernist indocrination and pavlov social conditioning, to create a society of equilization, by impedment, and suppressing the sovereign individuals development of rationalty and innovation,by control and isolation.<BR/><BR/>The Postmodern Condition by Lyotard seems to describe this with the alienation of science from truth.<BR/><BR/>Similar symptoms tend to be the dumbing down of, and non competition in Education by qualiataive standards,it is the numbers and everyone passes syndrome that pervails not the hypothesis.<BR/><BR/>The suppression of discourse by individuals restricts innovation and evolution,the qualification of the automate prevails.<BR/><BR/>To crusade against the prevailing fever of the moment is to be reviled as an leper or heretic of the pseudo religion of the postmodern era.<BR/><BR/>The outcomes of this indoctrination can be seen in the discourse of the NCEA and the NZQA.Additional forms of this malady can be seen here http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/4391888.stm<BR/><BR/>An interesting investigation into the causal organism that has produced this malady can be found here by Alan Caruba. http://www.anxietycenter.com/subversion.htmmaksimovichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06533828710622819614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-1131077823802973242005-11-04T17:17:00.000+13:002005-11-04T17:17:00.000+13:00The thanks would be sufficient, Mepoc. ;-)The thanks would be sufficient, Mepoc. ;-)Peter Cresswellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10699845031503699181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-1131071786243403022005-11-04T15:36:00.000+13:002005-11-04T15:36:00.000+13:00May the Lord bless and keep you Peter. Thanks ind...May the Lord bless and keep you Peter. Thanks indeed, indeed.Sir Arthur Streeb-Greeblinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07089215385939482882noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-1131068582399196092005-11-04T14:43:00.000+13:002005-11-04T14:43:00.000+13:00Go go Mr techno mp3 mix master!Thanks indeedGo go Mr techno mp3 mix master!<BR/><BR/>Thanks indeedRickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06315796390662297759noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-1131052078166081822005-11-04T10:07:00.000+13:002005-11-04T10:07:00.000+13:00Not only is this broadcast fascinating, it's furth...Not only is this broadcast fascinating, it's further eroded my pleasure in listening to the current crop of broadcasters who talk as though they've got clothespegs on their noses and cotton-wool for brains.<BR/><BR/>I swear, even if I were totally opposed to everything he said, I'd still enjoy listening to Lindsay because of the way he talks.Duncan Baynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08067439189657560427noreply@blogger.com