Michael Snyder American Dream August 14, 2013
If you say the wrong thing in America today, you could be penalized, fired or even taken to court. Political correctness is running rampant, and it is absolutely destroying this nation.
In his novel1984, George Orwell imagined a future world where speech was greatly restricted.
He called that the language that the totalitarian state in his novel created Newspeak, and it bears a striking resemblance to the political correctness that we see in America right now.
According to Wikipedia, Newspeak is a reduced language created by thetotalitarianstate as a tool to limitfree thought, and concepts that pose a threat to the regime such as freedom, self-expression,individuality, peace, etc. Any form of thought alternative to the partys construct is classified as thoughtcrime.
Yes, people are not usually being hauled off to prison for what they are saying just yet, but we are heading down that path.
Every single day, the mainstream media in the United States bombards us with subtle messages about what we should believe and what appropriate speech consists of.
Most of the time, most Americans quietly fall in line with this unwritten speech code.
In fact, most of the time we enforce this unwritten speech code among each other. Those that would dare to buck the system are finding out that the consequences can be rather severe.
The following are 19 shocking examples of how political correctness is destroying America
#1The Missouri State Fair has permanently banned a rodeo clown from performing just because he wore an Obama mask, and now all of the other rodeo clowns are being required to take sensitivity training
But the state commission went further, saying it will require that before the Rodeo Cowboy Association can take part in any future state fair, they must provide evidence to the director of the Missouri State Fair that they have proof that all officials and subcontractors of the MRCA have successfully participated in sensitivity training.
#2Government workers in Seattle have been told that they should no longer use the words citizen and brown bag because they arepotentially offensive.
#3A Florida police officer recentlylost his jobfor calling Trayvon Martin a thug on Facebook.
#4Climate change deniers are definitely not wanted at the U.S. Department of the Interior. Interior Secretary Sally Jewellwas recently quotedas making the following statement: I hope there are no climate-change deniers in the Department of Interior.
#5A professor at Ball State University was recently banned from even mentioning the concept of intelligent design because it would supposedly violate the academic integrity of the course that he was teaching.
#6The mayor of Washington D.C. recently asked singer Donnie McClurkinnot to attend his own concertbecause of his views on homosexuality.
#7U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer is calling on athletes marching in the opening ceremonies at the Winter Olympics in Sochi next year to embarrass Russian President Vladimir Putin by protesting for gay rights.
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#8Chaplains in the U.S. militaryare being forcedto perform gay marriages, even if it goes against their personal religious beliefs. The few chaplains that have refused to follow orders know that it means the end of their careers.
#9The governor of Californiahas signed a bill into lawwhich will allow transgendered students to use whatever bathrooms and gym facilities that they would like
Transgendered students in California will now have the right to use whichever bathrooms they prefer and join either the boys or girls sports teams, thanks to landmark legislation signed by Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown on Monday.
The lawamendsthe states education code, and stipulates that each student will have access to facilities, sports teams, and programs that are consistent with his or her gender identity, rather than the students actual biological composition. A male student who self-identifies as female could therefore use the girls bathroom, even if he is anatomically male.
#10In San Francisco, authorities have installed small plastic privacy screens on library computers so that perverts can continue to exercise their right to watch pornography at the library without children being directly exposed to it.
#11In America today, there are many groups that are absolutely obsessed with eradicating every mention of Godout of the public sphere. For example, an elementary school in North Carolina ordered a little six-year-old girlto remove the word Godfrom a poem that she wrote to honor her two grandfathers that had served in the Vietnam War.
#12A high school track team was disqualified earlier this year because one of the runners made a gesture thanking God once he had crossed the finish line.
#13Earlier this year, a Florida Atlantic University student that refused to stomp on the name of Jesuswas banned from class.
#14A student at Sonoma State University was ordered to take off a cross that she was wearing because someone could be offended.
#15A teacher in New Jerseywas firedfor giving his own Bible to a student that did not own one.
#16Volunteer chaplains for the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Departmenthave been bannedfrom using the name of Jesus on government property.
#17According to a new Army manual, U.S. soldiers will now be instructed to avoid any criticism of pedophilia and to avoid criticizing anything related to Islam. The following is from aJudicial Watch article
The draft leaked to the newspaper offers a list of taboo conversation topics that soldiers should avoid, including making derogatory comments about the Taliban, advocating womens rights, any criticism of pedophilia, directing any criticism towards Afghans, mentioning homosexuality and homosexual conduct or anything related to Islam.
#18The Obama administrationhas bannedall U.S. government agencies from producing any training materials that link Islam with terrorism. In fact, the FBI has gone back and purged references to Islam and terrorismfrom hundreds of old documents.
#19According to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, it is illegal for employers to discriminate against criminals because it has a disproportionate impact on minorities.
It would be hard to overstate the power that all of this relentless thought training has on all of us.
And young people are particularly susceptible to the power of suggestion.
If you doubt this, just check out this video of a little boy praying to Barack Obamaas if he was a deity
It would be a huge mistake to underestimatethe power of the mainstream mediain America today.
As I mentionedthe other day, Americans watch an average of about 153 hours of television a month.
When Americans go to work or go to school, the conversations that they have with others are mostly based on content that the media feeds them.
And about 90 percent of what we watch on television is controlled by just six gigantic corporations.
But the media is not the only source that is telling us what to think.
The truth is that the messaging that comes from all of our major institutions (the government, the media, the education system, etc.) is remarkably consistent.
The
establishment wants to control what we say and how we think, and they have a relentless propaganda machine that never stops working.
The way that we all see the world has been greatly shaped by the thousands of hours of thought training that we have all received over the years. Understanding what is being done to us is the first step toward breaking free.
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