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

[c b]

And no doubt those radical feminists were correcting all kinds of people
politically, but just didn't use the terms.  The point is all the people
who disdain use of "politically correct" , including Carrol Cox all over
the history of this list, are busy correcting other people's
politics.  They just have other terms for it.  Look in the archives for ten
thousand political corrections by Carrol Cox. He should be the last person
to talk about somebody else saying "politically correct".  Everybody on
this thread criticizing the use of "politically correct" thinks they are
politically correct in their criticism.  In other words, obvious hypocrisy
is rife here.

Charles

On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 9:05 PM, robert wood <wood0257 at gmail.com> wrote:


> 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!"
> >
> > j
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >
> > On Aug 21, 2013, at 8:28 PM, c b wrote:
> >
> > > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Shane Mage
> >
> > "Thunderbolt steers all things." Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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