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The Omega Letter Intelligence Digest
Vol: 39 Issue: 19 - Sunday, December 19, 2004--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Tyranny of the Stupid
A high-school junior in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, filed a sex discrimination suit against the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association because the association refused to let him join the all-girls team.
According to the complaint, reported in the Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune and in WorldNet daily, the alleged discrimination based on Bukowski's sex violates education amendments which prohibit "discrimination based upon sex in extracurricular activities at public schools."
It gets better. Doug Chickering, executive director of the WIAA, has been standing firm in keeping Bukowski off the team, even though the girls' coach had no problem with the boy's participation.
He recently explained to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel the reasons given by the WIAA for its ban – and why girls are granted exceptions.
In his explanation is one of the most bizarre examples of political correctness it's ever been my pleasure to laugh at. Chickering said -- and I'm not making this up -- "Our investigation of court cases indicates that there are physiological differences between boys and girls."
Note that Chickering had to investigate 'court cases' to come up with this amazing discovery. Had he arrived this conclusion the old-fashioned way, well, then he'd have the ACLU and the National Organization of Women all over him.
It is politically incorrect to observe that men and women are physically different. It makes it harder for them to get jobs as cops, firemen or combat soldiers if anybody admits it out loud.
So instead, Chickering had to 'investigate court cases' in order to conclude; "These differences would strongly indicate that physical advantages would have to be given to the boys."
They 'strongly indicate' that boys have physical advantages over girls? Has he ever BEEN a boy? Did he ever play on the playground with girls? (I used to love to play baseball against the girl's team. It was the only time we could win)
This isn't intended to slam women, but it IS intended to highlight the stupidity of political correctness (PC)
PC is a communal tyranny that erupted in the 1980s. It was a spontaneous declaration that particular ideas, expressions and behavior, which were then legal, should be forbidden by law, and people who transgressed should be punished.
It started with a few voices but grew in popularity until it became unwritten and written law within the community.
Soon those who were publicly declared politically INcorrect becoming the object of persecution by the mob, if not prosecution by the state.
(In Canada, the use of politically incorrect words has already resulted in numerous criminal convictions before Canada's human rights tribunals)
The rational behind this tyranny of the stupid is to prevent people being offended; to compel everyone to avoid using words or behavior that may upset homosexuals, women, non-white, the crippled, the mentally impaired, the fat or the ugly. Giving rise to terms like 'gay', 'feminist', 'physically challenged’,’ special needs', etc., etc. ad nauseum.
Don't misunderstand. I try not to give offense and would never deliberately insult someone for the sake of causing hurt, but that isn't the same as being forced by the PC police to 'investigate court cases' in order to discover that boys have physical advantages over girls in competitive sports.
The concept (and the stupidity) of Political Correctness is not exactly new. The first use of the term in America dates back to a U.S. Supreme Court decision entitled "Chisholm v. Georgia" concerning whether a toast should be given to 'the United States' or the 'People of the United States'.
(The Court ruled that toasting to the 'United States' instead of to, 'the People of the United States' was not 'politically correct'.)
But it reached its height of stupidity in the 1980's and has crossed over to become a form of social tyranny in the hands of the minority. The consequences are incalculable.
Take the practice of abortion, for example. It is politically incorrect to refer to practitioners of abortion as 'abortionists' which has the effect of sanitizing what it is that they do. They destroy unborn babies in the womb.
It is politically incorrect to use the phrase 'pro-abortion' in favor of 'pro-choice'. Just as it is politically incorrect to use the phrase 'pro-life' in favor of the more negative-sounding 'anti-choice' or 'anti-abortion'.
A recent situation at the L.A. Times illustrates PC tyranny in action: A news review of an opera included the term 'pro-life' -- in the sense of 'life-affirming'.
However it is Times policy to use the term 'anti-abortion' in lieu of the term "pro-life", therefore the term was changed, even though the meaning was entirely different. It was a major embarrassment to the Times editors, who deny a left-leaning bias.
"Anti-abortion" has pejorative connotations alluding to a 'challenge' to women's rights, while "pro-life" symbolizes an 'active defense' of the unborn children's right to life.
Nobody wants to think about trading a woman's rights for a human life, so PC-think can't tolerate references to the unborn as being 'alive'.
The Apostle Paul spoke to this specifically, writing, "Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron. . ." (1st Timothy 4:1-2)
That is all PC-speak really is -- a 'conscience ironer'. It is a way to declassify sin as sin and reclassify it as an 'alternative' to the politically-incorrect concept of 'normal'. Hence, being a homosexual is an alternative, but normal lifestyle. It says so in your child's school textbooks, so it must be true.
Abortion is the exercise of a woman's 'rights', not the destruction of her unborn child. Hence, it is not murder and has no social or eternal consequences. Some women have had multiple abortions and claim no regret. Their consciences have been ironed, pressed AND folded.
The fact that the whole concept is stupid (a politically incorrect, but accurate adjective) only seems to bother those tyrannized. The tyrants see themselves as the 'enlightened ones' and those they tyrannize as their social and intellectual inferiors.
It was Adolf Hitler who correctly deduced that the more outrageous a lie was, the more likely it was that people would not only accept it, but propagate it.
People want to believe that they are 'enlightened' -- Hitler was an astute observer of human nature. Believing themselves to be the enlightened ones makes them feel more comfortable about the dark.
That's how Hitler conned an entire nation into becoming complicit in mass murder. By making them feel good about themselves as being the only ones with the courage to impose the 'Final Solution'.
PC-speak is another word for mass delusion. George Orwell used the concept of PC speak as the main plotline of his science-fiction classic, "1984" about a society totally controlled by 'Big Brother' by being constantly bombarded by what Orwell called 'double-speak'.
The Apostle Paul spoke of mass delusion in the last days under the ultimate tyrant of human history -- the antichrist.
According to Paul, "for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie," and explaining from his vantage point 2000 years ago, what Hitler only articulated in the past century; " That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but HAD PLEASURE in unrighteousness." (2nd Thessalonians 2:11-12)
The Apostle John says the antichrist and false prophet; "deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live." (Revelation 13:14)
What is today the tyranny of the stupid is really the tyranny of the Big Lie in its infant form. With every passing day, the pieces of the puzzle for the last days come into clearer focus.
The prophet Daniel, when he was given his vision of the last days, was told by the revealing Angel;
"Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till THE TIME OF THE END." The Angel continued; "Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but THE WISE SHALL UNDERSTAND." (Daniel 12:9-10)
The seals have been broken and Daniel's vision and prophecy are no longer 'closed up' as they've been for the past twenty-five hundred years.
The wicked continue to do wickedly, and, as PC-speak proves, by definition, none of the wicked understand.
That leaves it up to us.
"But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand." (Ezekiel 33:7)
"But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry." (2nd Timothy 4:5)
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