Political correctness has been taken too far

Dynamite the Washington Monument. Bulldoze the Jefferson Memorial. Anything named for these slave-holding traitors in the eyes of the British in the 1700s should be erased immediately!

This is the obvious next step in the opinions of recent letter writers advocating removal of more Confederate monuments and statues. Does political correctness make them feel better about themselves or are they merely liberal lemmings?

History is primarily written by victors, but cherry-picking chapters of our nations saga to make a point is beyond mindless. The Stars and Stripes is our flag, one writer stated. Some Founding Fathers had slaves. Since our national banner waved over most of them in some form, I guess we need a new flag, too, huh?

These folks should get busy renaming the myriad streets, buildings, schools, towns, counties and other entities across the South that honor Confederate heroes. That deed done, they can focus on cleansing some U.S. military installations and Navy vessels of these despicable Americans names. Every town with a Confederate monument on the courthouse lawn better hire a wrecking ball. Where does this insanity end?

As a proud South Carolinian living in Buffalo for nearly two decades, Id never condone the Confederacys role in slavery. But to ignore Americas overall complicity in this shameful practice is gross ignorance and denial at its worst. And if Southern pride and heritage are garbage, as one local stated, I suggest he get over it, to put it very mildly. Let the labeling begin.

Derek Smith

Williamsville

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The man called the Jewish godfather of the alt-right has a new book out this year and white nationalist websites are applauding the work.

Author and academic Paul Gottfried, mentor to Richard Spencer and self-described paleoconservative, released his thirteenth book this spring, a collection of essays titled Revisions and Dissents.

In the books introduction, Gottfried writes blasts historians who he says have become lazy in their historical analysis. He casts himself as a contrary rebel, one who is willing to challenge the establishments acceptable ideas liberal pieties.

Contemporary historians, Gottfried writes, display a bias against certain groups that do not enjoy liberal respectability.

Some of those unpopular groups that Gottfried believes are being unfairly dismissed? Germans, southern whites and medieval Christians, among others.

On the white nationalist website VDare, John Derbyshire Gottfrieds impressive virtuosity. A glowing June 11 review found almost no faults with the new release and remarked on Gottfrieds great skill and erudition.

Another April article on the same website proclaimed: Three Cheers Three Cheers For Paul Gottfrieds Revisions and Dissents.

The fingerprints of his intellectual prowess can be found all over the writings of the alt rights better known names, VDares Hubert Collins wrote.

Who is this Jewish intellectual being lauded on a white nationalist website?

Gottfrieds earned his undergraduate degree at Yeshiva University, Modern Orthodoxys flagship institution, and received his doctorate from Yale. He spent much of his later career at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania, where he is an emeritus professor.

Gottfried calls himself a paleoconservativeanother term he coinedwhich is usually taken to mean a conservative who value limited government, tradition and Western identity. This is in contrast to neoconservatives who emphasize an interventionist United States over other policies. Paleoconservatives favor an isolationist foreign policy, restrictions on immigration and controls on free trade.

But like many neoconservatives, Gottfried is Jewish, Northeast-born and was educated in an Ivy League institution. Still, he casts himself as a sworn enemy to neoconservatives, castigating them for being insufficiently conservative.

In 2008, Gottfried founded and still runs the H.L. Mencken Club, to create conferences that would provide a regular gathering place for conservatives like himself. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, these conferences have from their first meeting served to bring together racists and white nationalists.

Few people have known just how to make sense of Gottfrieds position in the alt-right universe.

Even he is a bit uncomfortable.

When his portrait was included a recent New York Magazine expose about right wing movements, he took issue.

The editors of New York may disagree with my priorities and analyses, but I dont see how this disagreement proves that Im a white nationalist, he wrote in the American Conservativehttp://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/what-new-york-doesnt-understand-about-the-far-right/. They seem intent on lumping together all their villains and linking them, however circuitously, to The Donald.

And, months earlier, a National Review editor disparaged Gottfrieds newfound place in the alt-right dubbing him a house Jew.

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Mainstream media types and their ilk on Monday grappled with their coverage of the one-year anniversary of an Islamic State-inspired terrorist attack in which a lone gunman shot and killed 49 patrons of a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, with outlets like the Washington Post receiving heavy criticism for apparently downplaying the motive behind the killings.

WaPos lead story boasted more than 1,000 words without once mentioning the words jihad, terror, Muslim, or Islamic.

The story itself focused on the memorial and the terrorists weapon of choice noting that by the end of the night, more than 1,000 people had gathered to remember what happened last June, when Orlando became the first U.S. City of the summer before Falcon Heights, Minn., and Baton Rouge and Dallas to be upended by gun violence.

The newspapers coverage was later mocked on social media, when the hashtag #WashPostRemembers began to circulate on Twitter:

The social media giant itself, utilizing its moments news feature, also appeared to intentionally avoid any mention of the killers religion:

A transcript of the killer Omar Mateens 911 call to police seconds after the massacre leaves little doubt as to what his motivations were:

Orlando Police Dispatcher: Emergency 911, this is being recorded.

Mateen: In the name of God the Merciful, the beneficent [Arabic]

Dispatcher: What?

Mateen: Praise be to God, and prayers as well as peace be upon the prophet of God [Arabic]. I wanna let you know, Im in Orlando and I did the shootings.

Dispatcher: Whats your name?

Mateen: My name is I pledge of allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi of the Islamic State.

Dispatcher: O.K., whats your name?

Mateen: I pledge allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi may God protect him [Arabic], on behalf of the Islamic State.

Dispatcher: All right, where are you at?

Mateen: In Orlando.

Dispatcher: Where in Orlando?

[End of call.]

The New York Times also caught some criticism for sprinkling in some racism coverage in its columns recapping the Orlando massacre:

Mateens hometown newspaper of record, the Orlando Sentinel, also appeared to question what truly motivated the mass-murderer. The Sentinels lead story, featuring the headline Pulse Gunmans Motive: Plenty of Theories, But Few Answers, acknowledges the 911 call transcript but points out that not everyone killed at Pulse was gay.

The report goes on to raise the question of whether Mateen himself was gay as well.

The city of Orlandos own proclamation, which declares June 12 as Orlando United Day A Day of Love And Kindness, like the WaPo report, omits any reference to terrorism or the religious views that apparently fueled Mateens rampage:

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A Facebook post by a Republican congressman on the growth of Islam in Europe has drawn condemnation from the Council on American-Islamic Relations among others but the lawmaker, after deleting the post, did not apologize.

U.S. Rep. Jeff Duncan of South Carolina last week posted an image of a white-masked man (Europe) with a noose around his neck holding a watering can above a small tree (Islam) to which the other end of rope is attached. The takeaway being that one day Islam will grow tall enough to hang Europe.

Chew on this picture a little, Duncan wrote in his Facebook message. The tree, IMHO, is much taller today..

Indivisibles chapter in the 3rd Congressional District which Duncan represents posted a screenshot of the Facebook post after 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, the Post and Courier reported. Indivisible is a national organization against Republican President Donald Trumps administration, the paper said.

The Indivisible chapter on Twitter called the image a white supremacist meme, the Post and Courier said.

Bakari Sellers a CNN contributor who served in South Carolinas legislature as a Democrat tweeted, Jeff I know youre not racist. Lets put that to the side. But this is bigoted, ignorant and embarrassing.

While the Post and Courier said Duncan deleted his Facebook post hours before Sellers called him out, the paper characterized Duncan as bullish about the whole thing in his statement Wednesday.

Ive never been politically correct, nor do I care to be, Duncan told the Post and Courier. The truth is that Europe has allowed radical Islam to grow unchecked for too long, which has led to their current predicament. I want to keep America safe. Sometimes that means having to shove political correctness aside, being honest about the threats facing our country, and taking precautions like the ones President Trump has tried to implement.

The Post and Courier said Duncan didnt address why he deleted his Facebook post.

A Duncan spokesman told the paper that the congressman figured the media would probably choose to sensationalize something this trivial, instead of engaging in an actual dialog about how to keep America safe, which has always been his goal.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations, the nations largest Islamic advocacy group, on Thursday called on Congress to rebuke Duncan.

Rep. Duncans clearly racist and Islamophobic message is unworthy of a member of the United States Congress and he should be rebuked by his colleagues of all political stripes, CAIR government affairs director Robert McCaw said, according to WYFF-TV.

Duncan supports Trumps proposed travel restrictions to the U.S. from some Muslim-majority countries, the Post and Courier said, adding that Duncan introduced the Terrorist Deportation Act, which would deport any non-citizen whose name appears on a terrorist watch list.

The United Kingdom has suffered from 3 Islamic terrorist attacks in the past 3 months, and has prevented an additional 5 from taking place. For the past several years, I have called for us to put political correctness aside and do what is right for the country to keep our citizens safe, Duncan wrote on his Facebook page June 4, the day after the deadly London Bridge terror attack, for which the Islamic State has claimed responsibility.

Duncan continued, Our borders and broken immigration system are the soft underbelly of our country. We must take the necessary and appropriate precautions to prevent the war against radical Islam from spreading to our shores. To my colleagues who have obsessed over a warped notion of political correctness, I ask that you put politics aside and do what is right for the national security of the United States.

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Islam post by GOP congressman blasted by critics. He replies, 'I've never been politically correct.' - TheBlaze.com

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Last month, I gave my Intro to Journalism class a lecture on free speech. We talked about our rights, power, and responsibilities as members of a free and independent press. The lecture ended with a lively discussion, but the part that sparked the most engagement involved the term political correctness.

The class came to define it as engaging in discourse in a way to minimize pushback or controversy. It was the best way of fit in with certain politics. When I asked what type of politics does a politically correct person usually have, the class pretty much unanimously answered liberal. But my follow-up question threw a wrench in their assumptions.

What is something conservatives are politically correct about?

Crickets.

After moments of silence, one student answered that maybe a PC thing on the right would be on the topic of abortion. He mentioned conservative media darling Tomi Lahren getting suspended from The Blaze for her pro-choice comments. I asked the other students whether they considered that an example of political correctness on the right, but their replies were generally more in the realm of umI guess. I could see some were having light-bulb moments, but other students were still struggling to reconcile an idea they found logical yet did not feel to be true.

Why do we act as if President Trumps accusations of fake news arent just PC ways of attacking news outlet that give him any modicum of negative press?

If my students (most of whom are generally progressive) understand that people can have diverse politics, why was it difficult for them to conceive that non-liberals can be PC as well?

The blame could be placed in large part on conservative media for using the term as a go-to attack on the left. But looking deeper, the mainstream news media as a whole bears some responsibility, mainly as more left-leaning publications took on a greater burden of balance than their right-leaning counterparts. For example, as reporters and commentators debate whether avoiding the terms radical Islamic terrorism or illegal immigrants is politically correct, many within the mainstream media have tacitly accepted the rebranding of white supremacists and white nationalists as alt-right.

But who is acting out of political correctness is this case? The left out of a fear of alienating certain audiences by calling out racism, or the right and its instinct to deflect any accusation that the bigotry on its fringes is moving toward the center? The prevailing idea is that political correctness comes from the left, but it can come from the right as well.

Why was there bipartisan condemnation of comedian Kathy Griffins picture with a bloody Trump head, but no such furor when folks lynched and burned effigies of President Obama?

Upon Trumps election, why did pundits ruminate over the lefts identity politics, as if being white or working class is not an identity? Why is there a continued debate over the use of the phrase radical Islamic terrorism while white male extremism is seldom used? Why was it okay to debate whether former president Barack Obama was a secret Muslim but not on whether our current president, who mispronounces books in the Bible and appears to not know that Protestants are Christians, is truly a man of faith?

Why are generally liberal, centrist, or apolitical news outlets scrambling to hire the Megyn Kellys of the news world, though Fox News isnt exactly shopping for a Joy Ann Reid? Why was there bipartisan condemnation of comedian Kathy Griffins picture with a bloody Trump head, but no such furor when folks lynched and burned effigies of President Obama? Shouldnt the same people defending Bill Mahers racist joke defend Stephen Colberts homophobic satire of President Trump? Why do free speech absolutists scurry out of the woodwork to defend Milo Yiannopoulos, Richard Spencer, and Ann Coulter, but not Linda Sarsour, George Ciccariello-Maher, or Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor? Have we made up our mind on whose opposing views are okay for college students to hear?

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Why do we act as if President Trumps accusations of fake news arent just PC ways of attacking news outlet that give him any modicum of negative press? And when the media does call out his dishonesty, why dont they get a pat on the back for telling it like it is? Why didnt conservative media call out the Presidents politically correctness when he didnt say radical Islamic terrorism during his summit address to the Arab and Muslim world? If a free and independent press is paramount within our democratic society, why isnt all media up in arms about the GOPs anti-media strategy for 2018?

You will get different answers to these questions from different people, but that is precisely the point. Each persons answers are informed by their own ideas, experiences, and viewpoints. Their answers will be PC or telling it like it is depending on the politics the speaker subscribes to.

The problem with the discussions on political correctness is that it accuses liberals and progressives of doing something that people of all political leanings do. Groups tend to mediate which politics are acceptable within the group, so if liberals can have political correctness, conservatives can as well. If its the issue many assert it is, then it cant exist in isolation. So who decides that one view is PC and another is forthright?

As long as the mainstream media surrenders the right to define and frame specific issues and not others, it enables the weaponization of language, and allows right-wing politics to directly and indirectly set the terms for what discourse is legitimate. And it makes journalists complicit in promoting a glaring double standard when it comes to issues of free speech.

The PC-charge does seems to be losing at least some of its potency. Many news outlets have been more open about calling things as they see them, such as President Trumps lies, or his supporters willingness to defend virtually anything he does. But the lure of wanting to appeal to the anti-PC crowd persists. As more liberal journalists fight against the idea of liberalism as feelings over facts, a whole news industry on the right fueled grievances, fears, attacks, and false equivalencies emerged. Its also why outlets like MSNBC can have scholars and activists on to explain why black-on-black crime is a racist term, and also get political commentary from former reporters of Breitbart, a site with tags dedicated to black crime and black-on-black violence. If this is the type of balance news outlets need to have, then the burden should be equally distributed, not just for the liberal media.

Shouldnt the same people defending Bill Mahers racist joke defend Stephen Colberts homophobic satire of President Trump?

There are few things more political than language, so a critical-thinking press should not allow itself to be exploited in political arguments. Journalists have too often allowed the accusation of political correctness to skew the way they think about and cover topics. If the press is going to engage in this type of discourse, it either needs to be critical of both sides along the political spectrum for being PC, or it needs to eliminate the term from its lexicon.

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The war of words between LSU and a former tenured education professor fired by the university in 2015 is heating up in Baton Rouge federal court as a judge considers a civil rights lawsuit filed against the school.

Teresa Buchanan claims she was fired for using vulgar language, saying her free speech and due process rights were trampled by LSU Chancellor F. King Alexander and other top administrators, and she wants monetary damages and her old job back. She worked for LSU for nearly two decades.

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"This is a case of political correctness run amok," Buchanan's attorneys argue in a recent court filing. "The defendants at LSU fired Dr. Teresa Buchanan ... for 'sexual harassment' based on speech having nothing to do with either 'sex' or 'harassment.'"

LSU contends its termination of Buchanan was appropriate and necessary to protect students from her verbally abusive behavior.

"This case is not about salty language; students and others observed aggressive and bullying behavior by (Buchanan) in the classroom," attorneys for Alexander, Damon Andrew, A.G. Monaco and Gaston Reinoso argue. "(Buchanan) cannot hide behind the shield of academic freedom while creating a hostile learning environment for the students she was hired to teach."

Andrew is dean of LSU's College of Human Sciences and Education. Monaco is associate vice chancellor of the Office of Human Resource Management, and Reinoso is director of the Human Resource Management office.

Robert Corn-Revere, one of Buchanan's attorneys, declined Thursday to elaborate on the court documents filed on her behalf and instead said he would let those filings "do the talking for us for now." The attorneys for Alexander and his colleagues did not respond to a request for comment.

Buchanan, who specialized in early childhood education and trained elementary school teachers, alleges in her January 2016 lawsuit that her "occasional use of profanity" was part of her teaching approach and "was not directed at nor did it disparage any student."

LSU has said Buchanan was fired in June 2015 for "documented evidence of a history of inappropriate behavior that included verbal abuse, intimidation and harassment of our students."

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Attorneys for LSU Chancellor F. King Alexander and other university administrators are askin

A five-member faculty had recommended that Buchanan not lose her job, but the LSU Board of Supervisors unanimously agreed to fire her.

The American Association of University Professors came to Buchanan's aid shortly after her termination, criticizing her firing and pledging money to assist her legal defense.

In addition, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a group that advocates for free speech on college campuses, put LSU on its list of worst offenders early last year. The university was featured on the list largely due to Buchanan's termination.

A group that advocates for free speech on college campuses has named LSU to its list of wors

Buchanan's controversial comments included saying "f*** no" repeatedly in the presence of students, using a slang term for vagina that implies cowardice, and telling a joke that the quality of sex gets worse the longer a relationship lasts.

Buchanan has said she's proud of the job she did at LSU and doesn't regret anything she did.

In recent court filings, Special Assistant Attorneys General Sheri Morris and Carlton "Trey" Jones III, the lawyers representing Alexander and his colleagues, say Buchanan's conduct clearly violated LSU's sexual harassment policies, which mirror a blueprint for campus anti-harassment policies promulgated by the U.S. Departments of Education and Justice.

But Buchanan's attorneys claim LSU's sexual harassment policies are "defective" and unconstitutional, and that her firing also was unconstitutional.

"It's absurd for (Buchanan) to claim that defendants' recommendations to enforce policies consistent with federal guidelines are unreasonable," Morris and Jones argue.

Buchanan's attorneys, however, insist that the speech for which she was fired "falls squarely within the First Amendment's protections.

"The First Amendment ... does not permit university officials to equate offendedness with harassment," they argue.

But LSU's attorneys disagree that Buchanan's "embarrassing, humiliating and intimidating speech" toward a captive audience of classroom students was a valid part of her teaching approach.

U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick, who is presiding over the case, has not ruled or scheduled a hearing on LSU's and Buchanan's dueling motions for summary judgment, which ask the judge to rule in their respective favors.

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Editor, The News:

Political correctness is not only attacking our First Amendment and attempting to destroy our ability to communicate, it is putting the lives of Americans in jeopardy.

There are politically correct illnesses such as AIDS and breast cancer.

AIDS is not like, for instance, prostate cancer because a specific act must be committed before you contract AIDS.

A study by the New England Journal of Medicine suggests that diseases such as AIDS and breast cancer have strong political lobbies, such as the Red Ribbon campaign and covering everything and everybody in pink, and receive more federal money.

Dr. Ernie Bodai, a surgeon from California, got a special stamp issued that raised $50 million to fight breast cancer, which is laudatory. But he has been unable to win a similar prostate cancer stamp. He stated, The prostate cancer community is 10 years behind the breast cancer groups in terms of being acknowledged and receiving funds from the National Institute of Health. Hopefully, since this injustice occurred, he was able to receive that stamp.

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Prostate cancer strikes more men than breast cancer strikes women every year. The latest figures I have in prostate cancer 235,000, breast cancer 215,000 incidence rate per 100,000 is 172.3 to breast cancer 135.1.

Political correctness took hold when Obama was first elected and made his apology tour in the MIddle East, refusing to acknowledge that America is the greatest nation on earth. Everything is relative, is how he related to his country. Now on our campuses, some even refuse to use male or female or anything gender specific. God help us if they begin running the country.

Oh, was I allowed to say God?

Paul Dici

Ellwood City

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Political correctness has gone wild The San Luis Obispo Tribune A firestorm erupted over a costume picture that resulted in a public apology. The picture I saw had a bunch of kids in some pretty funny costumes. I did not see anything that degraded a gender, race or religion. Perhaps one of the complainers could ...

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Tell the big wigs at the Savannah Morning News to the let the Vox Populi have an entire page to itself.

If we went by the old clich that if you cant say something nice, dont say nothing at all, Vox Populi would cease to exist.

Im all for a toll bridge on to Tybee Island. That way, every time one of those pretentious people wants to come into Savannah, they can pay to come in and pay to go back home.

I hear so many negative things in the Vox Populi. I would just like to wish everyone that reads this to have a wonderful and blessed day. God bless all of you.

It is pathetic in todays world that a grown person cannot get over being called a name. This is not second grade, people. Grow up.

We in the United States should be proud with President Trump pulling out of the Paris environmental accords. We are on the same level as Syria and Nicaragua.

Pence and Trump, Tweedledee and Tweedledum.

If Kathy Griffin is the canary in the coal mine, then the American people have spoken. They dont want to have anything to do with her or so-called free speech.

The zoning issue regarding Cumberland Island is so depressingly familiar. Nature loses out to development in every case it seems. Georgia wont realize what it lost until its gone.

Liberalism and political correctness are proving to be the downfall of our republic.

When if ever can we declare America is great again?

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Vox Populi: 'Liberalism and political correctness are proving to be the downfall of our republic.' - Savannah Morning News

Liberal CNN contributorSally Kohn wants to fight terrorism with tolerance and political correctness.

President Trump demanded an end to political correctness in counterterrorism following the London terror attacks that left seven people dead and dozens more wounded. Kohn took offense at the presidents tweets and fired back, saying that political correctness are, according to her, the solutions to terrorism.

Political correctness is simple idea everyone should be treated with equal dignity [and] respect. Its not cause of terrorism. Its antidote, Kohn wrote in a series of tweets. When we make political correctness the scapegoat, we undermine values of tolerance and equality that are ALWAYS our best weapon against hate.

Of course we cant snap our fingers make all current terrorists just become more tolerant and respectful, she conceded. But long term, do we help future would-be terrorists turn toward respect, tolerance, away [from] hate? Or do we become more hateful ourselves?Our values of pluralism and inclusion and equality are under attack. The answer to terrorism CANNOT be to throw away our values.

Kohn previously took issue with then-candidate Donald Trumps call for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the United States.

Kohn claimed that Sharia law isnt a threat because even progressive Muslims adhere to it.

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CNN's Sally Kohn Wants To Fight Terrorism With 'Tolerance' And 'Political Correctness' - The Daily Caller

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Maybe we should have a Ramadan Alert. Every time this holy season comes up on the calendar, the attacks by the Jihadists increase.

This year, Ramadan began with a bang---actually several of them, as a number of Christians in Egypt were killed on their way to a monastery. On 5/26/17, they were murdered in cold blood by Islamic Jihadists who asked them to renounce Jesus Christ or die. The Christians refused---God bless them---and they were murdered for it.

Gary Bauer (Special Alert, 6/5/17) notes that about 150 people worldwide have been killed since Ramadan began on May 26. Bauer defines Ramadan as the time: when the Muslim faithful believe Allah handed down the first verses of the Koran to Muhammad.

Why are we now hearing about an increased number of attacks in the West? Robert Spencer, best-selling author on all things Islamic, told me in a radio interview that its because there are now more Muslims in the West.

I asked Spencer of Jihadwatch.org for a statement about political correctness and the war against Islamic Jihadists. He emailed me: Certainly the politically correct unwillingness to deal honestly with the motivating ideology behind the jihad threat hamstrings our ability to respond to that threat. Governments all over the West assume many Islamic institutions are moderate when they are anything but, but it would be Islamophobic to consider the evidence of that fact.

I also asked him about Ramadan and why theres so much violence during that time. He wrote me: Ramadan is the sacred month in which Muslims fast during the day and redouble their efforts to please Allah. Since warfare against unbelievers is presented in the Quran as a divine command, Ramadan sees more jihad violence than the rest of the year (which sees plenty).

The amazing thing about the Islamic Jihadist threat is the seemingly willful blindness on the part of so many in the West to see it. The radical Muslims can do anything and say, This is for Allah or Allahu Akbar, which they often do, and the willfully blind Westerners will say theres no connection between Islam and the killing. They dont acknowledge that its the Jihadists understanding of Islam that is the problem.

Spencer also told me: There are in the Quran 100 verses advocating jihad. They do not all explicitly advocate violence, but the only context in which the Quran discusses jihad is warfare against unbelievers.

A few years ago, I interviewed Andrew McCarthy, the prosecutor who put away the blind sheik for the first attempted blowing up of the World Trade Center, in 1993.

At the time, McCarthy noted a disturbing little trend---the initial voicing of the politically correct notion that Islam per se (at least the jihadists interpretation of it) had nothing to do with their violence, while they repeated the mantra, Islam is a religion of peace.

McCarthy told me: Now that seemed at the time, I thought, to be a harmless fiction because, whatever the government was saying in Washington and even whatever the government was saying on the steps of the courthouse, we were not prevented inside the courtroom from showing exactly why the terrorists committed the acts that they committed. We were never stopped from showing the nexus between Islamic ideology, Islamic scripture and Islamic terror. So whatever the government was saying outside the courtroom was a bunch of noise and propaganda, as far as I was concerned. But over time, this harmless fiction has grown to be a big problem, which today handcuffs us from dealing with a genuine threat.

McCarthy added, It started, I think, in their minds as a harmless fiction which was designed not to alienate our natural allies in the Islamic world, that is, pro-Western, pro-American Muslims who we dont want to drive into the arms of the bad guys, and there are hundreds of millions of [Muslims]. But there is a snowball effect, an avalanche effectYou keep doing this sort of stuff over the years and then the next thing you do is youre purging everything that Americans need to know about Islamic ideology. Youre taking Islam off the table, even though what any basic book of good intelligence, good warfare, good law enforcement would tell you is, its important to know what the other guy thinks so that you can anticipate what hell do next.

Today, that harmless fiction has grown, and it continues to blind many in the West. In the eyes of many liberals, Islamaphobia is worse than radical Islam. But Todd Starnes of Fox News (6/4/17) notes: You can't destroy the Muslim jihadists with candlelight vigils and benefit concerts.

May the true God keep us safe and spare us from political correctness.

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Political Correctness Handcuffs Us in the War Against Islamic Jihad - Townhall

President Trump on Sunday responded to the London terror attack, suggesting political correctness and the London mayors softresponse are contributing to strikes by radical Islamic terrorists.

Seven people were killed and dozens of others were injured in the two Saturday night attacks on and near the London Bridge. Police are investigating the incidents as terror attacks, but no terror group has yet to claim responsibility.

"We must stop being politically correct and get down to the business of security for our people. If we don't get smart it will only get worse, Trump tweeted first.

The president has from the start of his successful 2016 presidential campaign argued that the key to stopping global terror strikes is to address radical Islamic teachings and being more vigilant about allowing people into the United States from mostly-Muslim countries that are hotbeds for terror training.

"At least 7 dead and 48 wounded in terror attack and Mayor of London says there is "no reason to be alarmed! Trump also tweeted.

Trump also posted on Twitter about the attacks: Do you notice we are not having a gun debate right now? That's because they used knives and a truck!

A spokesperson for Mayor Sadiq Khan said the mayor is busy working with the police, emergency services and the government" and"has more important things to do than respond to Donald Trump's ill-informed tweet."

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Trump assails 'political correctness' in tweet on terror attacks - Fox News

Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Meyer joined Steve Doocy on "Fox & Friends" this morning to react toSaturday night's terror attack in London, in which seven people were killed and 48 others injured.

Meyer said this reinforces the need for the U.S. to take the fight to ISIS, which has claimed responsibility for the horrific terror attack.

"This is going to continue until we do something to stop it," Meyer said. "You can't go in your house and hide."

Meyer said we should be thankful as a nation that we have a president like Donald Trump who recognizes the threat.

"We have a man there who is not a bureaucrat ... who's going to be there to protect our country and puts our country first," Meyer said.

He said that terrorists are trying to change our way of life, but they underestimate the resiliency of the American people.

"You've got plenty of men and women who will wear the nation's cloth and who are willing to go over and do this a**-kicking that needs to be done," Meyer said.

He argued that political correctness impedes our ability to combat radical Islamic terror.

"The last administration wouldn't even call this radical Islam," Meyer said. "This isn't a war on Muslims, Christians. It's not a war on one religion. This is a war on terrorism."

"It's time to get busy."

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Medal of Honor Recipient: Political Correctness Hurts Us in Fight Against Terror - Fox News Insider

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.

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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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Triggered: Political-correctness hurts free speech - PCC Courier

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

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Letter: Political correctness is our downfall - The Columbus Dispatch

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.

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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.

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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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LSU students defend mascot from 'extreme political correctness' - Campus Reform

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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Polls On Political Correctness Forbes In an interview at the American Enterprise Institute on his new book The Vanishing Adult: Our Coming of Age Crisis, Senator Ben Sasse mentioned one statistic that scared the living daylights out of him. Forty-one percent of Americans under age 35, he ... and more »

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Rep. Clay Higgins is standing by a recent Facebook post callingradicalized Muslims as heathen animals and saying Americans should kill them all, telling Salon that the real problem seems to be political correctness.

We are a world at war, the Louisiana Republican said. The enemy is radicalized Islamic jihadists. The terrorists certainly take advantage of the politically correct madness that consumes the West. They revel, that many in the western world are frightened to speak freely. Ive never been accused of being politically correct. I call things the way I see them. The meaning of candid speech is frequently mischaracterized or misunderstood. This is about prioritizing national security and protecting American lives.

Every measure must be taken to eliminate radical Islamic terrorism and the threat it poses to the free world, he added. My only concern is protecting the people that live in my district, my state, and my country. We must stand strong against radical Islamic terror. The fate of the free world will be determined by the courageous, not by the intimidated.

Higgins became famous because of aweekly news segment called Crime Stoppers, one in which he would discuss local crimes and issue direct, no-nonsense ultimatums to the suspects. They were incredibly popular, even if his strong languageeventuallygot him in trouble, and he has ridden that reputation for frankness all the way to a political career.

The videos would frequently insult the intelligence and moral character of the criminals he was calling out and were replete with references to Higgins own Christian faith. In a particularly controversial video, Higgins called out individual members of the Gremlins street gang by name, referring to them as animals and calling one an uneducated, 125-pound punk thats never won a fair fight in your life.

Several family members of the individuals called out in the video took public exception to Higgins language.

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Louisiana Republican who supports instant death penalty for radicalized Muslims blames political correctness - Salon

During a Monday interview on Fox News, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) slammed tendencies toward political correctness after terrorist attacks, arguing we have to be clear-eyed about the threat we face abroad.

Cruz told Neil Cavuto that he appreciated the Trump administrations hard stance against terrorism.

He addedthat theObama administration was aware of communicationsbetween radicalized agents and people who would go on to commit terror, such as the Boston Marathon bombers and the Fort Hood shooter, but chose not to act on that information.

With terror attack after terror attack the government has had the communications, intercepted the communications, and it knew about the threat before it occurred but the administration was unwilling to act because of fears of political correctness, Cruz claimed.

He also explained how the Department of Homeland Security during the Obama years underwent a purge to alter or delete over 800 records to remove references to radical Islam or the Muslim Brotherhood.

Listen, that doesnt make any sense, he asserted, to be ignoring the red flags we seeweve gotta be clear-eyed about the threat we face abroad to prevent horrific attacks like the ones weve seen in the UK.

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