[lbo-talk] On the term, "Political correctness"

robert wood wood0257 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 21 21:05:31 PDT 2013


I heard a narrative similar to Jim's, that the term was frequently used in a joking manner by radical feminists, probably mocking certain Maoist tendencies references to politically correct lines. robert

On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 8:52 PM, JOANNA A. <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:


> As my yoga teacher put it, "nicely done!"
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> j
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> ----- Original Message -----
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> On Aug 21, 2013, at 8:28 PM, c b wrote:
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> > The terms have not been hijacked by the right. They are used by the
> > right
> > to cast aspersions on some left wing statement of a politically
> > correct (
> > not "right") position.
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> To everyone, including cb, the phrase "politically correct" evokes the
> putrid aroma of the phrase "Party Line." But what stinks in our ears
> is music to cb's, so here's some music (to the tune of Darling
> Clementine):
>
> In old Moscow, in the Kremlin,
> In the fall of thirty-nine.
> Sat a Russian and a Prussian,
> Writing out the Party Line.
>
> O my darling, O my darling, O my darling Party Line
> No I never will forsake you, for I love this life of mine
>
>
> Leon Trotzky was a Nazi,
> We all knew it for a fact.
> Pravda said it, we all read it,
> Before the Stalin-Hitler pact.
>
> O my darling, O my darling, O my darling Party Line
> No I never will forsake you, for I love this life of mine
>
> Once a Nazi would be shotzi,
> That was then the Party Line.
> Now a Nazi's hotsi-totsi,
> Trotsky's laying British mines.
>
> O my darling, O my darling, O my darling Party Line
> No I never will forsake you, for I love this life of mine
>
> Now the Nazis, without Trotzkys,
> Stand within the Party Line.
> All the Russians love the Prussians,
> Volga boatmen sail the Rhine.
>
> O my darling, O my darling, O my darling Party Line
> No I never will forsake you, for I love this life of mine.
>
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> Shane Mage
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> "Thunderbolt steers all things." Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64
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