THE CONSTANT ACCUSATION OF RACISM IS ERODING POLITICAL CORRECTNESS

THE CONSTANT ACCUSATION OF RACISM IS ERODING POLITICAL CORRECTNESS

By Domenick J. Maglio PhD. Traditional Realism

According to the “progressive media” anytime you criticize a person of color or anyone who is in the progressive’s good standing you will automatically be tabbed a “racist” or another pejorative. The same protocol is exercised with any other privileged group that has been designated as having protected status.  LGBTQ, feminists, illegal immigrants, minorities, criminals: when saying anything about these protected classes the speaker will be labeled as a homophobe, misogynist, racist, racist, racist to get the person to purposefully crawl into a hole in abject shame.

Just because a person disagrees with another of a particular protected/privileged class does not establish them as a racist. The downfall of this political strategy of name calling to humiliate a person is the strong personalities who are willing to fight back. The overuse of these terms makes them meaningless. Patriots quickly learned that political correctness was a tactic to put fear into the political arena, which would result in short circuiting freedom of speech. This results in self-censorship of opposing viewpoints.  It has achieved its objective for too long.

Donald Trump demonstrated his courage and strength in the 2016 election that was needed to rally the silent majority. Although he is an imperfect human like all of us, he has proven to be a patriot who can stand up to the vicious personal attacks. He continues to march forward to correct many of the past progressive policies that have attempted to stealthily establish socialism.

Anytime he makes a statement about anything, President Trump has been called a “racist” by anyone and everyone in the progressive media. Instead of being intimidated he has doubled down on his criticism of the person or groups making these accusations. “The Squad’s” and recently deceased, Elijah Cumming’s attacks on the border officials was countered by the president’s focusing on the hypocritical failure of progressive’s financial support of the ICE agency.

The greater the use of untrue slurs on the opposition, the less the effectiveness in tainting the reputation of a politician or individual. If everyone who disagrees with an opponent calls him a bigot, the accuser as well as the term’s power is diminished.  This is especially accurate when the accuser is not being accurate.

The emergence of President Trump’s strength not to back down from his political viewpoints has inspired others to do the same.  This has started a tsunami of government representatives and commentators beginning to stand up and fight back. Although they realize they will be attacked with hand grenades of epitaphs they continue to be inspired to stand up to counter outright lies.

The conservatives have learned that speaking up is more beneficial than putting their tails between their legs and wimping out. At least it is fostering open debate and at best is enabling progressives to revise and change their views of employing political correctness.

The PC establishment throwing of the race bomb too frequently is alienating voters.  There are too many examples where groups of progressives have repeated distortions or blatant lies to solidify a false narrative to discredit a politician. Beto O’Rourke, former candidate for president 2020, said about President Trump “he said after Charlottesville, white nationalists and Neo-Nazis and Klansmen are very fine people.” This is blatantly false.

In fact President Trump did say, “there are very fine people on both sides.” He was obviously talking about keeping Robert E. Lee’s statue in Charlottesville or not. The next day he made this crystal clear. “I was talking about people that went because they felt very strongly about the monument to Robert E. Lee, a great general. Whether you like it or not he was a gentleman and great general.”

There was no discussion of whether President Trump was talking about southerners who believed in the Confederate side in the Civil War many of which were not “white supremacists.” The media establishment chose once again to brand Trump as a racist for noting there are good people on both sides of the issue. One side saying tear down legitimate historical figures for their non-progressive ideas and the other wants to recognize them for their contributions in the actual historical context of the time.

Saying people are racist, homophobes, or misogynists, has morphed into “white supremacists, “ or whatever is the latest derogatory term. This childish progressive tactic of “political correctness” to increase citizen self-censorship is becoming too common and vicious to ignore.

It takes courage to continue to have freedom of speech. Citizens must speak up to exercise and maintain their First Amendment rights.

Domenick Maglio, PhD. is a columnist carried by various newspapers, an author of several books and owner/director of Wider Horizons School, a college prep program. Dr. Maglio is an author of weekly newspaper articles, INVASION WITHIN  and a new book entitled, IN CHARGE PARENTING In a PC World. You can see many of Dr. Maglio’s articles at www.drmaglioblogspot.com.