http://www.usnews.com/news/articles...st-sensitivity-resonates-with-silent-majority
"Politically Incorrect: Trump’s Battle Cry Against Sensitivity Resonates With 'Silent Majority'"
"It was the Fox News presidential debate a year ago, and Fox anchor Megyn Kelly had just challenged Trump about his remarks disparaging women. Trump's answer, Luntz says, was a stroke of genius and spelled out the animating idea behind his insurgent White House campaign.
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"I think the big problem this country has is being politically correct," the real estate mogul told Kelly. "I've been challenged by so many people, and I don't frankly have time for total political correctness. And to be honest with you, this country doesn't have time, either."
That response "was brilliant," says Luntz, who says a focus group he convened to watch the debate had an equally strong reaction. "We were dialing it and it was one of the best responses not only of that debate but any debate."
Luntz says Trump's declaration of war against political correctness – the much-maligned societal concept that one should refrain from offensive speech or action – unleashed the power of a "silent majority" fed up with what they see as touchy-feely liberalism run amok.
"When Trump uses the phrase, it is a shorthand for everything that millions of Americans feel about government, about politics, and about society and culture – that the elites decide what is proper, and everyone else has to follow the rules," Luntz says. "And the public just doesn't believe that anymore."
During Trump's meteoric rise from reality-show star to finalist competing for the Oval Office, the phrase "political correctness" shot up alongside him on the national agenda. Though it's been around for more than 220 years and became popular during the era of affirmative action in higher education, experts say, political correctness has taken on new life as a rhetorical punching bag for Trump, with his aggrieved constituency heartily cheering every blow.
In speeches, interviews and debates, the real estate mogul declared oversensitivity, fomented by President Barack Obama and the political left, is a factor in nearly every big issue facing the country – from a struggling, uneven economy and illegal immigration to the rise of violent jihadism and the scourge of the Islamic State group.
Polls show he's hitting the mark with some voters: According to a Pew Research Center survey last month, 59 percent of Americans say "too many people are easily offended" over others' language, while 39 percent believe "people need to be more careful about the language they use to avoid offending people with different backgrounds."
Yet others say the Trump-inspired backlash against an intellectual concept meant to promote tolerance and inclusion has created space for his largely white following to say bigoted, xenophobic, sexist or offensive things – even as the nation moves toward a majority-minority electorate and 53 percent of voters in the 2012 elections were women.
The phrase, "politically correct," dates to 1793, when Supreme Court Justice James Wilson complained about how U.S. citizens often failed to understand that they were the true power behind the new nation, according to the Harvard political review. His evidence: At dinner parties, a toast would too often salute "the United States," rather than, more specifically, its people – which, he reasoned, "is not politically correct."
George Lakoff, a linguist at the University of California-Berkeley, says the phrase comes from the left-right schools of thought on the role of government in society.
If parenting is the analogy, Lakoff says, the left is a nurturing model, where communication, collaboration and guidance as well as encouragement and correction are the standard. "The government is there, largely providing for everybody," he says."
This is from U.S. News and World Report, which is part of the mainstream Dinosaur media.
I wonder to what extent people now in the churches, as represented on TOL, rely upon the mainstream Dinosaur media, rather than the alternative media, mostly on the Internet? It sounds like sometimes people here are getting their ideas from the old media.
What does a Google search for "the origins of political correctness come up with?
http://www.academia.org/the-origins-of-political-correctness/
"If we look at it analytically, if we look at it historically, we quickly find out exactly what it is. Political Correctness is cultural Marxism. It is Marxism translated from economic into cultural terms. It is an effort that goes back not to the 1960s and the hippies and the peace movement, but back to World War I. If we compare the basic tenets of Political Correctness with classical Marxism the parallels are very obvious.
First of all, both are totalitarian ideologies. The totalitarian nature of Political Correctness is revealed nowhere more clearly than on college campuses, many of which at this point are small ivy covered North Koreas, where the student or faculty member who dares to cross any of the lines set up by the gender feminist or the homosexual-rights activists, or the local black or Hispanic group, or any of the other sainted “victims” groups that PC revolves around, quickly find themselves in judicial trouble. Within the small legal system of the college, they face formal charges – some star-chamber proceeding – and punishment. That is a little look into the future that Political Correctness intends for the nation as a whole.
Indeed, all ideologies are totalitarian because the essence of an ideology (I would note that conservatism correctly understood is not an ideology) is to take some philosophy and say on the basis of this philosophy certain things must be true – such as the whole of the history of our culture is the history of the oppression of women. Since reality contradicts that, reality must be forbidden. It must become forbidden to acknowledge the reality of our history. People must be forced to live a lie, and since people are naturally reluctant to live a lie, they naturally use their ears and eyes to look out and say, “Wait a minute. This isn’t true. I can see it isn’t true,” the power of the state must be put behind the demand to live a lie. That is why ideology invariably creates a totalitarian state.
Second, the cultural Marxism of Political Correctness, like economic Marxism, has a single factor explanation of history. Economic Marxism says that all of history is determined by ownership of means of production. Cultural Marxism, or Political Correctness, says that all history is determined by power, by which groups defined in terms of race, sex, etc., have power over which other groups. Nothing else matters. All literature, indeed, is about that. Everything in the past is about that one thing."
If people in the churches had listened to Dean Gotcher they might have a better understanding of Transformational Marxism, what it is and how it gave birth to political correctness. Instead, most in the churches who have ever heard of Gotcher reject him and his message about Transformational Marxism and what is called the dialectic. See I Timothy 6: 20-21, not in the translation but through Paul's use of the Greek words αντιθεσεις της ψευδωνυμου γνωσεως, antitheseis tes pseudonumou gnoseos - anti-thesis of falsley named knowledge.
The white, Christian, heterosexual males and the older culture that valued them are the thesis and the opposition to this thesis is the assertion that they are racist, sexist, anti-Semitic, and homophobic and anti-lesbian. In the Hegelian dialectic the opposition to the thesis is called the antithesis. The Greek word αντιθεσεις or antithesis, is found in I Timothy 6: 20. Other Greek words mean opposition, but αντιθεσεις is a term used by the Greek philosophy of the dialectic before the time of Christ.
