Being Politically Correct, and Hating It, American Style

THE TERM "POLITICAL CORRECTNESS" is the gift that keeps on giving, and just doesn't seem to want to go away, here in the great American fun house, where nothing is as it seems. And, ironically, unless historical understanding fails, the concept of "political correctness" wasn't even invented by Americans. Didn't it come from Dystopian novels from the 1930s, and from descriptions of life in totalitarian countries, like Hitler's Germany? Brave New World, Nineteen eighty Four, Huxley, Orwell, great novels about future, horrible government tyranny and the complete loss of personal freedom, the idea being that all self expression must meet with BIG BROTHER'S approval, must not offend Der Fuhrer, must be politically correct, to ensure the survival of the self expressor. We're talking serious stuff, here. Big Brother has a TV screen in your house, and gives you orders through it. Defy Hitler, and die. That sort of stuff. One...must...be...politically....correct....Heil Hitler! Hail Big Brother!...... Then, we come to our modern American version of political correctness....So greatly do we Americans value our freedom to be rude, because we are so very good at being rude, and so often are we reminded by meddlesome, politically correct liberal, big government fascist do gooders that we must always be courteous, or "politically correct", that we the American people, or many of us, have come to hatefully resent any and all peer pressure to be courteous. We demand the right to be rude. Any social more' which demands respectful treatment of everyone, constitutes tyranny of some sort. What a laugh. For real tyranny, see Hitler. Our American political correctness is nothing other than social peer pressure to be courteous, to act decently and to treat people with respect, to use the term "African-American" instead of the "N word". American political correctness means calling a lady a "lady", instead of a "broad". Or refraining from using terms like "spic", "spade", or "queer". Gee, what horrible tyranny!American political correctness is mere courtesy, not tyranny, for which nobody goes to jail for opposing, at least, not yet. We Americans get tired of required courtesy, and miss our freedom to be disrespectful. Understandable, in a sad sort of way. What's funny is the crazy fanaticism with which paranoid Americans treat socially mandatory, expected courtesy, as if it were real tyranny.