Darrell Castle talks about the politically correct movement and how it determines what we think by controlling what we say and the words we use to say it.

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THE THINGS WE SAY      

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. Today is Friday, April 12, 2019, and on today’s Report I will be talking about one of the many termites eating away at the foundation of Western Civilization, and that is the Politically Correct movement, specifically how that movement affects our right to speak freely. A recent quote from Paul Craig Roberts says it well: “I can remember when words now said to be offensive gave no offense to anyone. What has happened is that people have been taught to regard the words as offensive.”

I do not believe that the people who push the politically correct agenda on us have good intentions. Their intentions are the opposite of good because they want to change the way we think, the way we see reality by changing the words we use, and by changing the meaning of those words.

They are apparently doing so because they are opposed to the things which made Western Civilization the greatest civilization in history. We were once unique among all civilizations of history and our civilization was better than any other on earth delivering to us such things as; individualism, personal freedom, self reliance, capitalism, and I mean real capitalism as opposed to the crony capitalism of today, economic liberty, free thought, free speech, and the like.

It starts with controlling the words we say, the words we are allowed to use without fear of retribution, such as social media banning and de-platforming, social shaming, loss of job and with it the ability to earn our living using the best gifts that we have, along with many other things. It is just as Orwell predicted in his book “1984”, where he created the concept of Newspeak. That was a new version of the language using all kinds of new words meaning the opposite of what was familiar to us. It was then impossible to think clearly because the words were purposefully misdefined.

Examples of the misdefinition of words are numerous today, as are examples of the invention of new words to control and define us. Such terms as gender inclusivity, gender fluidity, cultural appropriation, and white privilege are spreading and becoming common thereby controlling our thought process. To some these terms are just a ridiculous joke but to others they define the world. The thinking seems to be that a person should be able to be what he thinks he is rather than how his birth defines him.

If one is born a man and he would rather be a woman then we must pretend that he is a woman. I have a certain degree of sympathy with that argument from the standpoint of human freedom. If a person wants to pretend that he is a fencepost that is fine with me as long as I am free to see him for what he is. If he or she is permitted to see himself or herself any way he or she wants then why am I not permitted to see that person anyway I want? The politically correct crowd will not allow me that freedom, however. They want to legislate that I must accept the psychologically aberrated as normal.

They demand laws, rules, and regulations governing what you say, think, and feel. We must be forced to respect, admire, and pay for the fantasies of a tiny minority. Disapproved speech will soon be criminalized in America as it has been in Europe, of that I have no doubt. The things we are not permitted to say quite possibly could be hate crimes and if so they could be criminally sanctioned.

In Michigan right now a “hate crimes database” is being created by the state’s Attorney General, working with the Department of Civil Rights to create a database of hate and bias incidents that don’t rise to the level of crime or civil infraction. The “hate crimes unit” apparently comes on the advice of the Southern Poverty Law Center,