John Cleese: Political Correctness Can Lead to an Orwellian Nightmare

George Carlin – Political Correctness is fascism pretending to be Manners

Political correctness is thought control and it brainwashes people into these dishonest f~~~wits that are too scared to be “offended” yet, when they get out in the real world, they can’t handle it. They need their “safe spaces.”

It’s like when you go to church and you pretend to be someone you’re not so everyone thinks you’re a good Christian or, perhaps more accurately, so nobody thinks you’re a bad person. It’s the new matriarchal religion/cult without the incentive of heaven and hell is here on earth.

That’s exactly what i hate about political correctness. It’s blatantly dishonest speech. If I’m fat, i wanna be called fat. I don’t wanna be called “curvy” or “big boned.” Same if I’m retarded, stupid, or handicapped.

Political correctness is thought control and it brainwashes people into these dishonest f~~~wits that are too scared to be “offended” yet, when they get out in the real world, they can’t handle it. They need their “safe spaces.”

What I find interesting is that a state of being will get a new term for it, to be able to be spun as positive somehow. Well, the nature of the state ends up catching up to the positive spin, so they end up using yet another term to replace it. You will see “impaired” for a disability being replaced also.

And the complaints about the needs for “safe spaces” is absurd also. If you want a safe space, unplug from the Internet, put a “do not disturb” sign on your door, and mind your own business. If you want others in it, then get some friends, and screen them and have some standards. I personally value my interests more than the need to have others in my space, so I don’t put up with things.

What I find interesting is that a state of being will get a new term for it, to be able to be spun as positive somehow. Well, the nature of the state ends up catching up to the positive spin, so they end up using yet another term to replace it. You will see “impaired” for a disability being replaced also.

Spot on. ‘Retarded’ (which has become a horrible word) was replaced by ‘developmentally delayed’ – which means exactly precisely the same thing – and for a couple of decades now, if you call a kid in the system ‘DD’ they’ll throw a punch just like if you call them a retard. The problem is the attitude, not the language, and political correctness is about controlling language. It can also be used to justify the most atrocious evils as long as you use the correct language to describe them, eg the feminists using PC language to give refugees/migrants a rape pass.

Disclaimer: have not had a change to watch the videos yet.