{"id":1342,"date":"2015-05-24T09:45:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-24T09:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2015\/05\/political-correctness-is-simply-big-brother.html"},"modified":"2015-05-24T09:45:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-24T09:45:00","slug":"political-correctness-is-simply-big-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2015\/05\/political-correctness-is-simply-big-brother.html","title":{"rendered":"Political Correctness is simply Big Brother"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>In that it matters not whether something is true or false, we are told we <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/05\/17\/entertainment\/louis-ck-snl-feat\/index.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">must speak the acceptable words<\/a>. \u00a0 The fact is language today considered racist (like rebel, thug, and radical among others), was within my memory commonly used. \u00a0And child molestation? \u00a0There was always an \u2018ick\u2019 factor, but it was good for a laugh. \u00a0Remember the movie <i>Airplane!<\/i>? \u00a0These things are facts. \u00a0And yet when someone points them out, it is against what our Big Politically Correct Brother has demanded the past and the present be, and so a comedian who might be able to be cutting edge in some cases, is called out on the carpet for failing to have is life experience conform to the preferred unreality. \u00a0Orwell. \u00a0Prophet for all the wrong reasons. \u00a0His novel was supposed to be a cautionary tale, not a not a how to manual.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In that it matters not whether something is true or false, we are told we must speak the acceptable words. \u00a0 The fact is language today considered racist (like rebel, thug, and radical among others), was within my memory commonly used. \u00a0And child molestation? \u00a0There was always an \u2018ick\u2019 factor, but it was good for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Political Correctness is simply Big Brother<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In that it matters not whether something is true or false, we are told we must speak the acceptable words. &nbsp; 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