Some of the Tea Partiers are picking up the scent in the air, the scent of decomposing gefilte fish politics stinking up the country. Quick, put an ERUV around the Tea Party, before they discover the REAL PROBLEM!
It is most often being done under the guise of “political correctness” a movement that has rapidly evolved from trying to encourage individuals to be more polite to each other and more sensitive to the use of language that might offend someone to an attempt by the far left to control the speech, thoughts, and actions of the American people. These blatant attempts to turn us into unthinking drones who only parrot the ideas that are deemed correct by the PC movement are aimed almost entirely at those who support the American way of life and the freedoms that most of us cherish. The effort has proven to be far reaching with PC edicts being enforced not only on public property but in private areas such as business offices and even homes.
Some of the more recent examples include:
A pastor and his wife in San Diego County, California were ordered by the county to stop inviting friends to their home to have dinner and engage in Bible study unless they pay thousands of dollars to the government for a permit to hold a “religious assembly”. It should be noted that the school district in this same county has set aside special times during the school day for Muslim students to engage in prayer on school property. No students of any other religions are granted the same privileges.
In May of 2009 a woman who worked in a hospital in Mansfield, Texas proudly put up an American flag in her office prior to Memorial Day in order to honor the service of her husband and two sons who had served in the U.S. military and her daughter that was currently serving in Iraq as a combat medic. However, the flag did not stay up long because when she came into work one morning she found that the flag had been removed, wrapped around its pole, and unceremoniously tossed onto the floor in a corner.
The lady in question, Debbie McLucas, learned that the flag had been declared offensive by another woman who worked in the office, an immigrant from Africa, and therefore the hospital had ordered it removed. When the media picked up on the story the hospital responded to the public outcry by letting Mrs. McLucas put the flag back up.
During that same week a disabled Marine and a veteran of the Vietnam War was ordered by the President of the Homeowners Association where he lived to remove bumper stickers form his car that supported the Marine Corps. They were deemed to be “unacceptable advertising” and he was told that if they were not removed his car would be towed and he would be fined for any further displays.
There are many more examples of this type of action around the country yet they almost pale in comparison to what is happening in our institutions of public education from elementary schools to universities. The so called “progressives” have taken almost complete control of many of our schools and are enforcing their version of political correctness on students and teachers and even trying to rewrite textbooks to alter American history to make it more politically correct.
One of the most extreme examples involves a battle in the State of Texas where the 15 member Texas State Board of Education is currently considering changes to the American history textbooks used in the public schools. These same textbooks will be used not just in Texas, but in school districts throughout the United States. Radical left wing organizations such as the Texas Freedom Network, which is the state affiliate of the People for the American Way, and other similar groups, are demanding that all mention of American heroes like Nathan Hale, Daniel Boone, and General George Patton be removed from the history books.
They are also insisting that any references to Columbus Day, Independence Day, and Christmas be removed. Other actions include replacing the term American with “global citizen” and replacing the reference to “expansionism and free enterprise” with “imperialism and capitalism’. In fact, many of the changes are designed to portray the United States as an evil force in the world. However, as outrageous as this is, the demands go even further. The progressives actually want to rewrite some of our most revered documents to make them politically correct. For example, has been proposed that the wording of the Declaration of Independence be altered.
According to Mat Staver, founder of the Liberty Council, one of the most important portions of the Declaration will be eliminated in these textbooks. The section that states: “We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness” will be changed by removing everything in that sentence following the phrase “that all men or created equal”. In other words, American school children are to be prohibited from reading any reference to our “Creator” in the Declaration of Independence. As I write this article, the vote by the board is considered too close to call.
Of course, these efforts to serve up political propaganda to our students in the public schools is exactly in line with what has been happening for years in many of our institutions of higher education. Many universities have managed to eliminate most professors who do not adhere entirely to progressive ideas being promoted on the campuses. There are a growing number of cases where universities are attempting to force groups of Christian or politically conservative students off of the campus entirely.
In addition, left wing professors are openly attacking students in the classrooms who profess beliefs contrary to the beliefs espoused by these so called educators. Students are either being forced to go along with the left wing ideology they are being fed or risk receiving failing grades and in some cases denied their hard earned diplomas. Nowhere is this more evident than in a recent action being considered by the administration at the University of Minnesota.
The university has formed a “Race, Culture, Class, and Gender” Task Force that has proposed that any student applying to get an education degree from the university will be screened to make sure they comply with the political and ideological views of the Task Force that are of course far to the left of the mainstream of America. If it is found that students do not conform to these “politically correct” beliefs they will either be denied admission or forced to attend “remedial” education courses to correct their beliefs. If they still refuse to conform they will be denied a diploma. In other words, freedom of speech, thought, and action protected under the 1st Amendment of the U.S. Constitution will be officially eliminated at this taxpayer funded institution. If this takes hold I suppose we can all look forward to the “reeducation camps” that have always been a way that communist countries dealt with those who disagreed with the established order.
It is time for Americans to stand up and proclaim that we are not willing to let our Constitution die for the sake of political correctness or any other catch phrase that will deny us the liberties that the members of our military have fought and died to defend for so many years. Our fight for the preservation of our heritage of freedom does not begin or end in the halls of Congress or the confines of Washington D.C. It must be fought in the State Legislatures, in the City Councils, and even in the local school boards. It is a fight we can’t afford to lose. It must be fought for our sake and those of our children.
I don’t really see any evidence that the “Tea Party” movement is moving towards white nationalism. It’s being co-opted by the GOP, with Sarah Palin and other GOP flunkies speaking at their convention. We are going to have another 1994 style “Republican Revolution” that leads nowhere. How many times can this farce repeat itself? The Tea Partiers are just the same people who gloated over Bush winning reelection turned into sore losers. They are completely neoconed and aracial.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
ATBOTL,
Not every Tea Partier is in lockstep. The mass media wants to publicize any connections between the Tea Party and the White advocacy movement. Why not give them what they are looking for? It can only be good for us.
It is most often being done under the guise of “political correctness” a movement that has rapidly evolved from trying to encourage individuals to be more polite to each other and more sensitive to the use of language that might offend someone to an attempt by the far left to control the speech, thoughts, and actions of the American people.
This is either gross error or deliberate deception. PC was started for precisely the purpose it is not being used. PC’s excuse is “politeness” but of course has jack shit to do with politeness (what’s polite about blaming all the world’s problems on whites? What’s polite about rewriting history as the tale of evil white men? What’s polite about finding the white race collectively guilty in absentia and sentencing them to collective racial punishment? What’s polite about raising white children to be racially ashamed and subservient to non-whites? What’s polite about telling a Polack fresh off the boat he’s got some atonin’ to do? What’s polite about telling a Nigerian fresh off the boat he’s got some blamin’ to do?). PC is the heart of leftism – how polite are leftists? These are the people that scream down and physically intimidate their enemies, fornicate in public, organize pervert parades, call populists “tea-baggers,” etc. They’ve been running our culture for fifty+ years now, and it’s gotten coarser every step of the way.
Nope, politeness it ain’t. PC has NOTHING to do with politeness or civility. It has EVERYTHING to do with Lenin’s Imperative (“who? Whom?”).
PC was started for precisely the purpose it is not being used.
Make that now being used.
Great post Svigor! Of course you are right! But the Tea Party are basically “porch Masons” who can only be enlightened (illuminated, LOL) one small step at a time.
Sometime I’m going to do a post about dealing with local people. You don’t go up to folks and give them reasoned arguments. You get them talking about what they want to talk about, and carefully, carefully, ask a Socratic question here and there to steer them in a direction you want them to go, or tell them a story about how you were victimized by multiculturalism and get them to sympathize.
A very nice woman I know, a mother of four, has been friends with a Jewish family for years. Last weekend, she went to a bar mitzvah of this family’s son, and told us all about it. The Jews pushed in line ahead of her, the rabbi’s wife actually shoved her aside to get to the buffet. While she’s telling us this tale, my wife kicked me to basically warn me, “don’t say anything!”
I said, “Well, that’s why they are so rich and prominent. They got sharp elbows.” The woman said, “yeah, I guess so! Jeez!” This woman was the farthest thing from an “anti-semite,” but it appears that Jewish behaviour is something we can always count on!
I have a friend who, whenever he has a bad dealing with a Jew, he accuses him of being anti-semitic. He says, “I’m Jewish too, and it’s because of Jews like you that we had the Holocaust! You are confirming every vicious, anti-semitic stereotype about Jews being dishonest and pushy and deceptive!” He tells me they’ve never had a “comeback” when he says this. They are always dumbfounded and horrified.
The left wants to play up this “implicit whiteness” angle to discredit the TPs. The right wants to convince them that they should vote for GOP candidates. The neocons want to make sure that they are on board with the Israel first foreign policy. That last one won’t be hard because most of them already are.
I had to fly from NYC to SF next to a Jew. I couldn’t believe how he kept encroaching upon and taking over my space. He acted as if I wasn’t there and the entire row belonged to him. His bag, business books, and shoes kept getting closer and closer to me. He spilled some water on me and made bare minimum effort to clean it up. I couldn’t believe how rude and inconsiderate he was. This was his default behavior; he wasn’t trying to do this. Since it was post 9/11 I had to limit my response …