Watching the US from a distance (and I have consciously not described this as a safe distance) you sometimes forget that it is all really happening. The quiet pace at which the left in the US has been snaking its way through every institution of power makes it seem as if it ought to be stoppable but somehow is not. There was therefore what I think of as a very subtle piece of work on what has been taking place that I have discussed in a piece at Quadrant on Line.
The author at the American Thinker, Daren Janescu, describes the experience of living in the United States as like living on the inside of a Kafka novel. But his approach is to begin from the people persecuting five year olds for making guns out of pop tarts and then saying “bang, bang”.
No one ever mistook a half-eaten Pop Tart for a weapon. And that is precisely why you are forbidden from saying ‘bang, bang’ while wielding a half-eaten Pop Tart. If this still makes no sense to you, that is because you are not crazy. But try, for a moment, to put yourself into the twisted psyche of a progressive authoritarian, and ask yourself this question: What is the message being sent through such rules, and the lesson being taught through their enforcement?
Jonescu, of course, notices these people are insane but he also makes the larger point that there is a method in their madness. Their larger if unconscious aim is to make us uncertain of our own instincts, in this way to surround us with rules of what’s impermissible for actions that were once commonplace as a form of social control.
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I think this point by Theodore Dalrymple is also relevant:
Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.
http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=7445
The odd thing is I’d swear that I had posted this quote on facebook and now it has dissapeared. I guess I best start using http://www.lovefreedomtruth.com again.
“Suspension over gun-shaped toaster pastry is now permanent mark on kid’s record…
This week brought more bad news for Joshua Welch, the Baltimore-area second-grader who was suspended for two days because his teacher thought he shaped a breakfast pastry into something resembling a gun.
School officials have denied an appeal to have the suspension expunged from the boy’s permanent record, reports The Baltimore Sun.
Robin Ficker, the attorney representing Welch and his family, said he will now take the matter to the Anne Arundel County school board. Under local regulations, he has 30 days to do so.”
http://dailycaller.com/2013/06/13/suspension-over-gun-shaped-toaster-pastry-is-now-permanent-mark-on-kids-record/#ixzz2W6Iowpgo