Comedian Bernie Mac recently made an off color remark at an Obama rally that didn't go over very well. Members of the audience found it offensive and divisive. Well, welcome to the world of political correctness which is defined below as:
Political correctness (adjectivally, politically correct; both forms commonly abbreviated to PC) is a term used to describe language, ideas, policies, or behavior seen as seeking to minimize offense to gender, racial, cultural, disabled, aged or other identity groups. Conversely, the term "politically incorrect" is used to refer to language or ideas that may cause offense or that are unconstrained by orthodoxy.
The fact that Bernie Mac's joke had to be smoothed over by Obama tells me that the liberal population is now self-enforcing thought-crime. According to Orwell's 1984, these Obama supporters have labeled Bernie Mac a thought criminal. The squelching of inappropriate and offensive language and thought is unamerican. It also further enslaves the population by limiting honest discussion of uncomfortable issues and topics. If we don't speak it, it doesn't exist as a problem, or the problem will just go away.
In 1984, the government controlled its subjects actions, behaviors, and thoughts by labeling anything considered subversive as a thought-crime. In 2008, it is the liberal population that seeks to control the actions, behaviors, thoughts, and language of America citizens. I'll call it Liberal Fascism. It's the flip side of Right Wing fascism in which Liberal Fascism's main objective is to control the mind, while traditional Right-Wing fascism sought control through physically oppressive measures.
Yes, people will say things that annoy and aggravate you, but this place is called America for a reason and when fellow citizens begin to push for the squelching of free thought and the right to free speech, then I have very little hope for this country.
Without direct and honest discussion and thought, problems don't get better, they get worse.
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