The new "PC" - Being "Piously Correct"

[TiredTexan]

As everyone recalls, the right was absolutely unceasing in its scathing indictment and ridicule of anything "PC" ("politically correct"), complaining of the thought police, the stifling of 1st Amendment rights, etc.

Now, the right seeks to impose its version of PC, that of being "piously correct." The Dobsons, Falwells and Randall Terrys of the religious right are the new PC thought police, mandating sexual and moral conduct in every private moment, from our sexual conception to our method of death.

Maybe we could use their own language and tactics against them. Ridicule their sanctimony as the new "PC." Look up all of their old arguments against "PC" and turn them around to argue against "Pious Correctness."

Just a thought.

[havocmom]

1. Damn fine point!

Sign me up for you PC Posse!

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

2. I like it, I really like it!!

Well done!!

[TiredTexan]

5. Hello, Phoebe Loosinhouse

Welcome to DU. Love your name.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

10. Thank you . Hi back . n/t

[sendero]

3. Very nice...

... I think you're on to something!

[Kerrytravelers]

4. Well said. Very, very well said.

[TiredTexan]

6. I'm going to start looking up articles on

"political correctness." Maybe I can find some good ones.

[Kerrytravelers]

7. I'll be bookmarking and checking back on this thread!

[LittleClarkie]

8. Call them Pharasees

They'll like that.

[TiredTexan]

9. Like Pharisee Correctness

Good point

[TiredTexan]

11. There's actually a Website called PCWatch

that has all of these examples of what he calls the "creeping dictatorship of the Left." No kidding. I'll spend some time going through these and get on Lexis Nexis to see if I can find old George Will articles on this that I recall reading a long time ago when all we had to worry about was the Left forcing others to be sensitive with language. Ahhhhhh, the good old days.

Look at:

http://pcwatch.blogspot.com/

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

12. Are you sure Jesus would approve of this thread?

[LittleClarkie]

13. Oh sure

Jesus wasn't down with the Pharisees either. Hypocrisy appeared to make his teeth itch.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

14. Just want to be sure.

[TiredTexan]

15. I'll quote Lincoln...........

(and Kerry, quoting Lincoln)..........."I do not pray that God is on my side. I pray that I am on God's side."

Because I, too, am PC.

[realFedUp]

16. good tag

unfortunately following the real Jesus
has little to do with what the Christian
Taliban is pressing on this nation right
now.

Please remember that many of us are people
of faith and trying to live out the real
message in words and deeds.

[TiredTexan]

17. My 72 year old Baptist, lifelong Republican Mother

has abandoned her church and is on a tear about what she calls the Christian Talibornagains. She's furious because her church is openly advocating for Bush, injecting polictics into spirituality. She refuses to go back to church, in spite of home visits and numerous calls from lifelong friends and other churchgoers. She's spoken to the minister and her Sunday school teacher demanding a moritorium on political views in the church, all to no avail. They basically told her that if she didn't agree with Bush, she was going to hell.

She is the most Christian person I've ever met. She's kind, works to help the poor and downtrodden, and never has a bad word to say about anyone (but Bush).

If they've alienated her with their attempts to create a fascist theocracy, they have to have alienated many other Christians. It's sad.

[ComerPerro]

18. Limbaugh was discussing today the "Dominionist Conspiracy Theory Wackos"

on the left who say that the religious right wants to establish a Dominionism in this country. Rush of course contends that this is far from the goal of the religious right, who apparently are good people who just want morlaity and decency.

hmm...

A group of radical activists who are seeking to rewite the laws of the country in order to better conform with their religious beliefs, and who seek to avoid compromise and squash out any contrary opinion.

Nope.

Doesn't sound dominonist or fascist to me...

[TiredTexan]

19. You've got a stronger stomach

than me. I can't stand to listen to that man, even when Al Franken is playing him.

[ComerPerro]

Well, I have an hour for lunch at work

And I like to eat in my car and then go for a walk. I tune in to Rush for the fifteen minutes I am eating just to hear what he is blabbing about.

I find him (and all the right wing propagandists) strangely fascinating.

[TiredTexan]

21. I really wish I could listen, but I just can't/

I get so angry, that I lose perspective. Written words, for some reason, I can take apart logically, and respond to logically. But someone lying to fool people, over and over, is more than I can stand to listen too. Especially that false sanctimony.

[TiredTexan]

20. here's a good one

http://tennessean.com/opinion/nashville-eye/archives/05/03/68393084.shtml

[NMMNG]

22. I like it

I'll have to keep that one in mind next time I see it going on...

[TiredTexan]

23. Kick once for the day crowd

nt

[KittyWampus]

24. Piously Correct! This Is Perfect, You're A Genius.

[MissMarple]

25. My first response to that is....Priceless.

:bounce: :bounce:

:bounce: :bounce:

[BigBearJohn]

26. This sums it up:

[TiredTexan]

27. Great Cartoon.................

And so true...........

[JohnOneillsMemory]

28. This is great framing. One for the military, too? 'Pridefully Correct'

Ya got to have plenty of Salute to pass as a real American, too. Thanks to the voluntary/economic draft culture of honor and glory marketing to potential recruits.

In the same way Republicans have to kiss the ring of Ronald Reagan, Americans have to 'be strong on defense.'

What being 'strong on defense' has meant in the last 100 years has not been something everyone embraces and wants more of, however.

A cultish religion of Nationalism is involved and it is harder to talk about than ecclesiastical religions. I think this is because the nationalist indoctrination process is far more successful with young children than is religion. The national myths are more immediate since they are invoked in the daily news theater every day.

Many think it important to promote a sense of human community that is not defined by weapons and borders but without being smeared as 'anti-military' or 'anti-American.'

I carry a pocket copy of the US Constitution and Bill of Rights and pull it out as a reference as a way to debate Bushies and still be 'Pridefully Correct.'