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National suicide by political correctness
by LAWRENCE SELLIN, PHD October 1, 2014
Barack Obama said "ISIL is not Islamic. No religion condones the killing if innocents."
That definition includes:
al- Qa'ida, Abu Sayyaf, Gama'a al-Islamiyya, Hamas, Hizballah,
Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Jaish-e-Mohammed, Lashkar-e Tayyiba, Al-Aqsa
Martyrs Brigade, Asbat al-Ansar, al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, Jemaah
Islamiya, Ansar al-Islam, Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, al-Shabaab,
al-Qa'ida in the Arabian Peninsula, Boko Haram, al-Nusrah Front, Ansar
al-Shari'a in Benghazi, Ansar al-Shari'a in Darnah, Ansar al-Shari'a in
Tunisia - Well, you get the idea.
As noted recently by
Diana West, Americans continue to be perplexed as to how the Obama
Administration and the media keep repeating the politically correct
propaganda that Islam has nothing to do with jihad. Such widespread,
politics- and mass-media-driven brainwashing is not new.
Just as today's politicians, journalists and academics seek to separate Islam
from its radical impact; brutal conquest, forced conversion, sex
slavery and beheadings. Past opinion-makers worked equally hard to
separate communism from its own brand inhuman impact; brutal conquest,
forced collectivization, concentration camps and mass murder.
Few Americans realize that political correctness, a policy implicitly promoted by Democrats and established as the de facto totalitarian
legal system on American universities, was designed by communists in
the 1930s to undermine western civilization and democracy while
disguising the nature of the threat.
After the successful 1917 communist revolution in Russia, it was widely believed that
a proletarian revolt would sweep across Europe and, ultimately, North
America. It did not. The only two attempts at a workers' government in
Munich and Budapest lasted only months.
As a result the
Communist International began to investigate other ways to create the
state of societal hopelessness and alienation necessary as a
prerequisite for socialist revolution.
The single, most important organizational component of
this conspiracy was a Communist think tank called the Institute for
Social Research, popularly known as the Frankfurt School. The task of
the Frankfurt School was first, to undermine the Judeo-Christian
foundation of Western civilization that emphasized the uniqueness and
sacredness of the individual and, second, to determine new cultural
forms which would increase the disaffection of the population.
Political Correctness is cultural Marxism translated
from economic into cultural terms. Just as in classical economic
Marxism, certain groups, i.e. workers and peasants, are a priori good,
and other groups, i.e., the bourgeoisie and capital owners, are evil.
In the cultural Marxism of Political Correctness certain groups are
good, such as feminist women, blacks, ethnic minorities and those who
define themselves according to sexual orientation. These groups are
deemed to be "victims," and therefore unquestionably good. Similarly,
white males and, by extension Western civilization, are determined to be
automatically evil, thereby becoming the equivalent of the bourgeoisie
in economic Marxism.
Perhaps the most important, if least-known, of the Frankfurt School's successes was
the shaping of the electronic media of radio and television into the
powerful instruments of social control which they represent today.
With the collapse of the Soviet Union, American universities now represent the
largest concentration of Marxist dogma and political correctness in the
world. This is not the academy of a republic, but Hitler's Gestapo and
Stalin's NKVD rooting out deviationists in the guise of racial, ethnic,
gender and cultural sensitivity.
The policies of the Obama Administration reflect what David Horowitz described as an unholy alliance between leftists and radical Islam. They have been brought together by
the traits they share - their hatred of Western civilization and their
belief that the United States is the embodiment of evil on earth. While
Islamic radicals seek to purge the world of heresies and of the infidels
who practice them, leftist radicals seek to purge society's collective
"soul" of the vices allegedly spawned by capitalism -- those being
racism, sexism, imperialism, and greed.
Given the existential
threat posed by such ideologies, political correctness can no longer be
considered merely a peculiarity of cowardly politicians, a biased media
or tenured radicals, but a dangerous subversive element of an
anti-American and anti-Western strategy.
But frankly, Mr.
Obama, I don't care if ISIL is "Islamic" or not. Wanting us all dead is a
sufficient reason to take the war directly and aggressively to them.
Lawrence
Sellin, Ph.D. is a retired colonel with 29 years of service in the US
Army Reserve and a veteran of Afghanistan and Iraq. Colonel Sellin is
the author of "Restoring the Republic: Arguments for a Second American Revolution ". He receives email at lawrence.sellin@gmail.com.
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