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Doctor L. Scott Smith, Esq.

“Etiquette, no matter how well-meaning, cannot manipulate the marketplace of ideas for long. To argue otherwise demonstrates merely the idiocy of “political correctness””. L. Scott Smith, America Unraveling, A Politically Incorrect Analysis of Public Faith and Culture

Political Correctness: A Cultural Cancer

Cancer is not just one disease but a large group of almost one hundred diseases. Its two main characteristics are uncontrolled growth of the cells in the human body and the ability of these cells to migrate from the original site and spread to distant sites. If the spread is not controlled, cancer can result in death.

The term Politically Correct has some rather vague beginnings, some of which did not often represent what it does today. Kant’s separation of “faith” and “empirical knowledge”, for example, argues that the former is a subjective matter only. Does that make Kant the father of relativism? Nor is the ideology of Political Correctness just an American phenomenon. It aspires to undermine several Western cultures as well. Oddly enough, it is currently thought by liberals to be a brilliant Republican invention to undermine the opposition. Whatever its origin or salient progenitors, it has gotten out of hand.

No thinking or civilized person can argue with the truthfulness of its underlying intentions. Though ethnically diverse, it is to our benefit to remain united. Using terms like nigger or honky rips the fabric of unity. Indeed, we are a nation of ethnic diversity, but it is counter productive to allow cultural diversity. The terms are often misunderstood. If one argues against cultural diversity, many have the idea that one argues against ethnic diversity. It has become popular to squash any such discussions as racist or radical and falls under the umbrella of the Political Incorrect.

One might believe that many so called Politically Incorrect actions or statements are rather shallow or that their antonym, Publically Correct, is often a bit silly. And sometimes they are. But this ideology has woven itself into the American social structure so tightly that it is destroying the body of its host. The definition of cancer above aptly describes the destruction of a body (nation) by the uncontrolled growth of cells (politically correct ideology). And like a cancer, it spreads and attacks the heart of our unity and strength through a process of national, cultural decay, and if not controlled, will help result in our nation’s death.

Is that an exaggeration?

A culture is represented by its language, its approach to science, its world view, its financial structure, its economic strength, its religious foundation, and a host of other attributes. America praises itself on being philanthropic, a nation of liberty, and a bulwark of Christian values. Mr. Obama stated that America is the greatest nation on earth. One presumes it was because of these attributes. He then made a Marxist contradiction by asking his supporters to help him change it. He followed that by stating that we are not a Christian nation. As it turns out, Politically Correctness, unabated, was part of that change in a societal preponderance of relativistic thought.

Politically Correctness has infiltrated more than its shallow underbelly. It now regulates our behavior in mathematics, science, sociology, finance, and every other strata of what was our national culture. As strange as it might seem, there is a term in use now called Anti-racist Mathematics. In short, it is the idea that minorities are not given equal advantage because the discipline is discriminatory to certain classes of citizens. I graduated from the university in mathematics. It seemed to me that math was just math. I had no idea that it was ethnic or cultural. Nor was I bright enough to know the difference. Political Correctness affects Christmas, speech, identity politics, newspeak, sex, first person language, political consciousness, Xenocentrism, and a host of cultural misanthropes.

It is a cancer that has even infected our young heroes who fight our wars. And it is leveled almost entirely by people who have not been in the military. Such judgments of behavior are easy for those who have not born the stress of combat. These young combatants, who do our bidding, carry considerable weight on their backs. Temperatures are either unbearably hot or painfully cold. Hours and often days are spent in the field without facilities. Each day ends in exhaustion. One’s butt cheeks become so chaffed that walking is painful. One’s pants often become laden with excrement and urine. The average person would not tolerate the food for more than a day. Body order is appalling. The nights are filled with terror. One opines endlessly whether he will run out of ammunition or that his weapon will fail. And then there is the constant threat of death. And many either come to that fate or are seriously injured for life. The enemy is known to do appalling and barbaric things to him if he is caught. Strange illnesses attack those in a strange land, some that are un-diagnosable.

And if that is not enough, he is constantly followed by cameras and news crews who his own superiors have authorized. They transmit his every move back to a citizenry that knows not his torture but who judges him under the guise of Politically Correctness. Why? To appease whom?
Recent examples illustrate this misguided pejorative and its affect on a whole society. Navy SEALS were sent on a mission to capture and extract the ringleader of those who killed, mutilated, burned, and then hung Americans from a bridge over the Euphrates River. This barbarian, Ahmed Hashim Abed, apparently claims some little boo-boo at some point in his capture. But this is only according to Ahmed after being turned over to the Iraqi authorities. There were no witnesses. These men are now up on charges. Ringleaders of the WTC bombing are being tried in a civilian court. Many in America decry the water boarding or other mild interrogation methods of them while at Gitmo. I went through much more in Special Forces training. An adherent to the religion of Islam was trained as a physiatrist on tax payer’s dollars. Military authorities were remiss in asking questions and taking this individual to task. The result: he killed 13 people and wounded scores more as they were being processed for deployment. Our southern border remains a war zone as the administration hurries to appease Mexican elitists.

Why? The ever spreading forms of Political Correctness? A country filled with illiterate and obese pansies (Seventy five percent of our young are not eligible for the military because of this ridiculous situation)? A nation that has lost is way, its will, its integrity, its fortitude (Less than 2 percent of our nation is active military. Less than 9 percent are veterans.)? A nation who cannot remove their thumbs from their Blackberry, who cannot get their ass off the couch, watching the newest reality show or the latest football game, who cannot get themselves out of bed before noon? A nation of bodies mutilated with ink in an effort to show their individuality? And yet, at that late hour of the day, some find themselves putting on their protesting apparel and rushing to the latest political identity rally or special interest group meeting to have lunch and plan how to change their country’s values to match and indulge their own sick desires?

Yes, like cancer, Political Correctness begins from hundreds of point sources, each with eloquent arguments for its righteousness, for its virtue, for its holy grail and for its supposed point of light to the rest of the world. And it migrates from its original source to distant sites. In the meantime, it not only suppresses the traditional functioning of a culture but slowly destroys it. And like a cancer, if not controlled, will result in death.

At its heart, Political Correctness is denial. Denial has no survival value.