Better Dead Than Rude
John Derbyshire analyzes political correctness and its impact on modern Western society:
Derb concludes that PC is nearing the catastrophic failure point, that society at large is about to give it the boot. I'm not nearly so optimistic, but I dearly hope I'm wrong.
I was therefore glad to see us acting vigorously against Afghanistan and Iraq, imagining that these campaigns would be in the monitory style of 19th-century British gunboat diplomacy: Smash their forts, kill a few leaders, then get the marines back on board and away. I had reckoned without PC and its lunatic spawn, “compassionate conservatism.” We had, apparently, embarked on a campaign to bring to the Afghans and Iraqis the kind of consensual government they surely yearned for (all peoples being precisely equal in their collective aptitudes and desires). The results can be seen on the TV news any night of the week.
Derb concludes that PC is nearing the catastrophic failure point, that society at large is about to give it the boot. I'm not nearly so optimistic, but I dearly hope I'm wrong.
posted by Jar(egg)head at 11:58
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And again I state that we are too timid when it comes to the use of our armies. More explosions and dead bad guys, then you tell them how its going to be. Not discuss what they would like. they gave up the right to civil discussion when they flew planes into buildings.
These people want to destroy our complete way of living. You don't negotiate with that. You continue to kill as many of them as you can until the rest realize they were idiots and give up. Until they realize that daddy's home and hes got his belt out, you are wasting your time with them.
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