A deadly substance called PCP (politically correct person) is spreading through American college campuses once again, but this time at even higher rate. This phenomenon hasnt been an issue since the 1960s where American socialists within their communist party line began to be egalitarian with their politics.

Pretty much that is when far left principles began the course for an equal society. Opening the doors for those who follow the phrase all men (and women) are created equal and interpreting it as a law.

The Declaration of Independence was written to separate from Great Britain; it is not a law. The law we do follow is the Bill of Rights, democracy, a republic for which we stand not for communism or for socialism.

All in all, the politically correct party would soon fully grasp America and find its way into the universities during the late 80s and follow through in the 90s.

Fast forward to 2017, ever not-funny comedian Stephen Colbert was trending on twitter for his hysterical rant towards President Donald Trump, leaving many on both sides of the political platform to yell out political correctness. However, most people arent familiar with the phrases history or the effect its had today.

Within America, the term PCP kept coming up, where it had turned radicals into socialist and communist groups. Debra Schultz, outspoken author of To Reclaim a Legacy of Diversity, said in her book, throughout the 1970s and 1980s, the New Left, feminists, and progressives used their term politically correct ironically, as a guard against their own orthodoxy in social change efforts.

The New Left in Schultz time was the result of some of the 1960 radical students that had become professors and brought new agenda in mind.

NY Times reporter Richard Bernstein gave spotlight to the term PCP that hit universities, and said, the P.C.Ps themselves, there is a large body of belief in academia and elsewhere that a cluster of opinions about race, ecology, feminism, culture and foreign policy defines a kind of correct attitude toward the problems of the world, a sort of unofficial ideology of the university.

Bernstein went on to describe how conservatives and classical liberals took the phrase as a satirical jab. They believed the PC agenda would only pressure those who wouldnt conform to the new curriculum and close debate at whatever cost, thus, hurt students along the process.

A thin line was made between being politically correct and being an extremist.

The University of Texas executed the politically correct process with a Writing on Difference program that would highlight real-life concerns about students. Unsurprisingly, UC Berkeley also followed suit, at the time, where they held a Political Correctness and Cultural Studies conference on changing up their scholarships for non-white students.

Changes that seemed as a great step towards creating bonds with all cultures were the gravestone of academic orthodoxy.

In a different case in Stanford University, a student named Amanda Kemp campaigned to eliminate a Western Civilization course. Kemp stated, We, the non-Western-Europeans, have no greatness, no culture, no explanations, no beauty, perhaps no humanity.

Triggered, Kemp believed the Western Civilization course was unfair to minorities, women, and the LGBTQ community.

One can argue, that at the time those three groups werent really represented and she was fighting for their voice; however, wanting to remove a course just because it seemed unfair was a ridiculous thing to campaign against.

In spite of the PC Culture appearing compelling to students, administrators, and faculty (many of whom were ex 1960s radicals), political correctness took a petrifying turn. In late December 1990 the Chicago Tribunereported, Groups of PCPs have disrupted classes, prevented speakers from being heard, burned controversial publications, bullied professors into changing course content.

Wow, what a coincidence. The report from that year reminds me of other college campuses shutting down events in this day and age.

Chicago Tribune reporter Joan Beck, was giving insight about President Bushs U.S. Secretary of Education Assistant, Michael Williams. Williams accused college scholarships of violating the 1964 Civil Rights Act towards minorities, in which PC student and faculty agreed with his outrageous claim.

On some campuses, charges of being politically incorrect can get a professor dismissed, endanger a college newspaper editor`s job, force a student out of university housing or sentence an offender to attend sensitivity training seminars suggestive of Red China, Beck said. Fears of such charges have made it virtually impossible to talk about some issues altogether.

The fear of backlash that Beck reported in the 90s still stands to this day.

A report in 1991 from NY Times writer Robert McFadden, stated, After a racial incident on campus two years ago, Stanford University adopted a code prohibiting racially offensive speech. Since then, 100 colleges and universities have passed similar codes

The article went on to explain that the debate over political correctness will grow because of advocates of change and advocates of tradition who have evenly risen. McFadden believed American education along with free speech and equal opportunity were at risk.

And so, isnt free speech and American education under attack now?

Furthermore, the Chicago Tribune in 1991 reported on another PC concern. Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities (at the time) Lynne Cheney was concerned with many professors using arts and humanities as political tools. A case she cited was of a professor in the University of Texas who abused their power by indoctrinating their freshman students with their feminist beliefs.

The course was supposed to be a required basic writing skills class for freshman.

Cheney stated, intolerance in the form of political correctness is most rampant on the campuses of major resource universities, which have become increasingly insulated against the rest of the society the best way to counter the problem is through increased media attention and public awareness of the debate over the issue.

Well, PCPs of the past, meet the PC Police of today.

In 2015 at the University of Missouri, protests broke out after alleged melodramatic hate crimes in campus. The result was ugly.

Heat Street and National Review reviewed 7, 400 emails that revealed an overwhelming loss of support from deep-rooted sports fans, donors, and alumni. The emails werent deleted nor were the computers sabotaged. However, most emails mentioned parents/family members of UM students wanted nothing to do with Mizzou, including talks of transferring them to other schools.

In other emails students felt they were left high and dry.

The protests led to the resignation of University of Missouri President Tim Wolfe, Chancellor Bowen Loftin stepped down from his position, in May of 2016 athletic donations fell 72 percent, and since the events of 2015 freshmen enrollment decreased 35 percent.

Other hyperbolic examples are:

Mayhem erupted as those groups violently attacked fans of Yiannopoulos and vandalized local shops. Some students claimed he was going to spew his hate speech towards Berkeley students.

They have kept protesting towards speakers of different opinions.

Yet, isnt sharing different ideas what the college experience is all about? Even veteran free speech advocate who was a legit free speech advocate of the 1960s, Lynne Hollander Savio, was saddened to see Berkeley affiliated with violence and denying free speech instead of promoting it.

Above all, political correctness doesnt correct anything. It has been an atrocious issue for the past 27 years. The PC culture has only harmed college campuses and society by dividing us. It has undone any progress of unity to get along with one another, despite their personal beliefs. From college campus to your close friends, to my beloved satirical comedy, being a preposterous censoring puerile doesnt create awareness or harmony.

Modern Educayshun is a vision of what hypersensitivity would look like in the near future, written and directed by Neel Kolhatkur.

Modern Educayshun or Education? You choose.

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Louisiana State University students are rallying to the defense of their Tigers mascot after an online petition called it a symbol of white oppression and demanded its replacement.

The original petition, created by an anonymous user on Change.org named LaMallori, cited a former LSU administrators account of the mascots origin, which explained that the nickname was chosen in reference to units from Louisiana that earned a reputation for toughness while fighting for the Confederacy during the Civil War.

"Ditching LSUs beloved mascot would be sanitizing history for the purpose of extreme political correctness."

LaMallori independently claims that the soldiers from those units were just as violent to the black slaves they owned, and later even more violent once those slaves were set free.

Calling the LSU mascot the most prevalent confederate symbol in the United States, the petition deems it incredibly insulting for any African American to have to attend to a school that honors Confederate militantism, adding that it is already hard enough to be black at LSU, and these symbols must be changed.

Almost as an aside, the petition also complains that it is cruel to cage a wild animal for the amusement of privileged white people.

[RELATED: Petition: LSU Tigers mascot a symbol of white oppression]

Facing backlash following Campus Reforms report on the petition, LaMallori added an update comparing the effort to the removal of Confederate statues in New Orleans, as well as vehemently denying any racist intent behind the original wording.

Black people will be the new majority in Louisiana, and they need to recognize this new power, the update asserts. They need to understand that we can shape the state in our image, just as white people once shaped the state in their image.

Recently, though, LSU students have created a counter-petition declaring their support for the Tigers mascot, deriding the original petition as a form of extreme political correctness and asking the school to retain the cherished symbol.

[RELATED: UWM says politically correct is no longer politically correct]

According to the counter-petition, perceptions regarding the nickname have changed dramatically since it was first selected, notably with the introduction in the 1930s of Mike the Tiger, a live tiger owned by the school and named after a former athletic trainer.

Since the advent of a live Mike the Tiger nearly a century ago, the Louisiana Tigers have come to embrace the beautiful animal named for a renowned LSU athletic trainernot a fiction that comes from a Confederate symbol, the counter-petition contends. Ditching LSUs beloved mascot would be sanitizing history for the purpose of extreme political correctness.

The counter-petition was created by David Walters, who is also a co-founder of the Students for Trump group at LSU, and at press time had garnered 691 signatures, surpassing the original petitions 635 supporters.

The point of my petition is to show that we will not put up with that kind of nonsense anymore, Walters told Campus Reform. [The tiger] is tradition and will remain that way.

[RELATED: Students petition to fire prof for shaming Trump supporters in class]

LSU Media Relations Director Ernie Ballard told WWL that the school is aware of LaMalloris petition, but insisted that the school is not considering replacing the mascot.

He also disputed the petitions claim that the original Louisiana Tigers were known for their especially harsh treatment of slaves, confirming that The tiger mascot was...selected based on lore about the battlefield ferociousness of a Louisiana regiment operating in Northern Virginia, but stating that there is no information about soldiers conduct outside of battlefield accounts.

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We keep arguing about a proposed travel ban, but in checking our own history, we knew how to manage immigration.

In the 1800s, we had massive immigration. We screened people on Ellis Island from health to their politics. Undesirables were sent back.

Our policy then was more common sense. In 1921, we put a moratorium on all immigration. We had to stem the tide of the flood of immigrants to allow the others to assimilate.

We had enclaves of various ethnicities like "Little Italy," but these people saw the opportunity America offered and they were eager to learn our language, culture, and way of life. People were ashamed to be on welfare, but now they come here and expect it. None of the immigrants coming here today cares to assimilate. Muslims have been at war with the United States since President Thomas Jefferson fought the pirates at Tripoli.

Political correctness is our downfall. Like Europe, we will commit national suicide just to prove we are not prejudiced. How dumb; how sad.

Dale Lauffer

Columbus

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Letter: Political correctness is our downfall - The Columbus Dispatch

By John Crump : Opinion

U.S.A. -(Ammoland.com)- It seems like every week there is some type of Islamic Extremist attack either in the US, Europe, or Asia.

These despicable attacks kills multiple people every time they happen. At the attack in Manchester, England a sick and twisted monster set off a nail bomb at an Ariana Grande concert. Over 22 people died in the attack, including kids as young as 8 years old.

The suicide bomber, who was a son of refugees, did it in the name of Islam.

This attack brought out an outpouring of sympathy across the globe, but it also brought out the social justice warriors who are more worried about people trying to place the blame of this evil attack on Islam than the kids who were killed in the attack. Katy Perry took this opportunity to give her naive solution to the problem by insisting that we need to co-exist with these monsters. Not only was her solution, to the greatest threat of our time, co-existing, but she also proposed that we can stop sons of refugees from blowing up kids by getting rid of borders, and to love one another.

They also dont care about borders. They sure as hell dont care about co-existing. All they care about is killing innocent people in their sick and twisted quest to get their 72 virgins and ascend to paradise as a martyr. Ms. Perry has been indoctrinated by the PC culture that has spread like a plague throughout the western world.

This PC culture pushes the narrative that it is better to be politically correct than to be safe. What these PC warriors dont understand is that we will never be safe until we call out those that will do us harm. The biggest threat we face as a country is radical Islam, but to the social justice warriors just by pointing this fact out makes you an Islamophobe. They argue that the terrorist are not really Muslims at all and their cowardly attacks have nothing to do with Islam. They also bring up events, like the Spanish Inquisition, that happened hundreds of years ago.

The fact is that these terrorist are real Muslims, and they are killing in the name of Islam. Islam has a pair of cancers named Wahhabism and Salafism. These two extreme forms of Islam are being exported all over the world by our so called allies, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, through the funding of extremist mosques and madrassas. [President Trump is making headway to change this with our allies.] These forms of Islam are turning the calendar back to the dark ages in the Middle East, and this is what they want for the rest of the world. Islam in itself isnt bad, but these two forms of Islam are death cults.

Beirut used to be known as The Paris Of The Middle East. Now it is a war torn city due to the rise of these extremist factions of Islam. Paris is now becoming the Beirut Of Europe, due to the same factors, whether it is a car attack, gunmen, or knife attacks on trains. Europe is in dire peril. It seems like every week there is another terrorist attack somewhere in Europe. This is what the future of the US looks like if we let the SJWs (social justice warriors) run the show.

The PC culture likes to say if we only gave them education and jobs we could stop terrorism.

The lack of education and jobs is what they blame terrorism on, and they believe we can defeat terrorism by providing education and jobs. They believe that these terrorists are not members of a death cult due to a twisted version of Islam, but that isnt what the facts show. In fact the facts do not support this at all, and show the opposite. A study published at Cambridge University, by Alexander Lee, not only disputed this idea but it showed that terrorists are half as likely to not be in poverty than the general population they stem from.

Also an abnormally high number of terrorists have engineering degrees. Even the left wing, New York Times ran an article called The Madrassa Myth which looked at the education of terrorist. What they determined is not only did most have advanced degrees, but most terrorists were from middle class to upper middle class families. Admitting this would put the blame of terrorism on radical Islam so the PC crowd ignores these facts, and if you happen to bring it up, they will call you a racist or a bigot.

The labeling of someone as racist or an Islamophobe is the left's way of shutting down opposing ideas. We have seen this with campaigns against conservative host such as Sean Hannity on Fox. This have also been seen on college campuses with groups like Antifa trying to prevent people like Milo Yiannopoulos, and Gavin McInnes from speaking on campus.

So how can we expect the people that are against liberty and freedom to accept reality?

The reality is that sometimes violence is the answer. The PC people do not want to accept the fact that these evil monsters do not want to co-exist. No amount of education is going to solve Islamic Extremism. No amount of money is going to solve Islamic Extremism. These people dont care about those things. They dont care about life. The only thing they care about is killing as many innocent people as possible. The only way to defeat them is to stop worrying being PC and just kill them.

We, as conservatives and libertarians, need to stop worrying about being labeled. Just being one of those two things is going to get you labeled anyway. We need to speak the truth and call a spade a spade. We will never win this struggle for our children's lives by being PC. We will only win by being real and speaking the truth.

The time to push back is now.

About John Crump

John is a NRA instructor and a constitutional activist. He is the former CEO of Veritas Firearms, LLC and is the co-host of The Patriot News Podcast which can be found at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/patriotnews. John has written extensively on the patriot movement including 3%'ers, Oath Keepers, and Militias. In addition to the Patriot movement, John has written about firearms, interviewed people of all walks of life, and on the Constitution. John lives in Northern Virginia with his wife and sons and is currently working on a book on the history of the patriot movement and can be followed on Twitter at @crumpyss or at http://www.crumpy.com.

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