A Plague of Political Correctness

A quote from Cal Thomas in The Daily Journal, 25 September 2007

Britons give many reasons for leaving, but their stories share one commonality: life in Britain has become unbearable. They fear lawlessness and the threat of more terrorism from a growing Muslim population and the loss of a sense of Britishness, exacerbated by the growing refusal of public schools to teach the history and culture of the nation. What it means to be British has been watered down in a plague of political correctness. […]

Abraham Lincoln said no nation can exist half slave and half free. Neither can a nation be sustained if it allows conditions that result in mass emigration, while importing huge numbers of foreigners who come from backgrounds that do not practice assimilation or tolerance of other beliefs. When one factors in the high number of abortions (one in five pregnancies are aborted in England and Wales), the high birth rates of immigrants (15 times those of white Britons), it doesn't take an expert to predict that the days of the England we have known may be numbered.

The problem for Britain and the United States isn't just the change in demographics. It is the reluctance of both countries to inculcate the beliefs, history and, yes, religious ideals, which made our nations so successful that others wanted to come and be a part of them.

Belgians don't have.....#2

@LLGrandbois

You have mistaken ideas. 

1) It is true enough that Belgians do no longer have genuine freedom of speech, in a political sense.  They have it up to a point, but not when one touches on the  new dogmas of the current naive-left orthodoxy.  Then merely 'speech' can get you jailtime and/or fines.  So, Belgium is no longer a real democracy.

2) You are very wrong to think that Bush "has magically gotten more presidential powers than any previous president".  That only shows how limited your knowledge of history is, and how much the current media control your thoughts.  No previous war-time president has faced the same restrictions that Bush currently faces, and very few have faced such a hostile and even treasonous media cabal (in some cases, e.g. like the New York Times) which presents extra-judicial 'controls or limitations' as well.   

3)  Your view of the English monarchs as "celebrities" is touching, but your conclusion that monarchy (in general) helps "retain culture and tradition" does not conform with empirical observation.  The latter teaches that especially celebrities tend to conform to pc culture.  They tend to embrace it.  What "culture" are you talking about?    PC culture, no doubt.  The Belgian king (and the judiciary as well) has sworn to uphold the Constitution.  Did that stop him from signing unconstitutional legislation in recent times?  It did not.  A modern king, just like most politicians, will seek to be 'popular', NOT to be principled.  It is foolish to support institutions, like monarchy, which are INHERENTLY undemocratic in nature.  In a reasonably democratic culture, a 'bad' politician can often be removed relatively easily, but a 'bad' king will remain a 'fixture'.   Of course, if the culture itself is no longer "reasonably democratic", then all this becomes a moot point.  And whether a culture remains genuinely "democratic" is largely determined by the education system and the media!  A monarch will be totally irrelevant in that respect.  

4) The "oldest democracy" has lasted for about 230 years.  It was never perfect, but it did respect freedom of political speech, which has enabled improvement over time and also power alternation among different ideologies at regular intervals.  Rest assured that it will not last forever, and that it will eventually "be killed" from within through cultural degradation.  

1) i was right2) bush hasnt

1) i was right

2) bush hasnt had restrictions. he has been highly criticized but not restricted. left wing media relentlessly attacks him, right wing media relentlessly attacked clinton. that will never change.

3) a good reminder of the difference between democracy and monarchy to those who didnt already know this. who knew a monarchy isn't a democracy!? i still think a monarchy is a better way to retain culture, although it does have serious flaws. if the english didnt have a monarchal celebrities, many elements of their culture would be lost. their past kings would begin to be seen as villains just like our sacred founding fathers in america have been forgotten and in some cases villified by anti-europeans thanks to PC-white-male-bashing.

4) i was right again!

Belgians dont have freedom of speech

 you need to either use democracy or you will lose it.  like Bush in America that has magically gotten more presidential powers than any previous president.  when you are afraid to confront problems or are are not allowed to confront problems (as it is not PC for whites to do) you get dominated by a strong group/leader/ethnicity/etc.   considering how the 9/11 protest was handled in Brussels, it looks as if native belgians are not allowed to say what they want to say.  According to what I read at this site, Walloons are worth more than the Flemish.  Is that really democracy when one persons vote is worth more?  The English Monarchs have no power, they are permanent celebrities, and nothing more.  Yet I feel that alone, has some value to help retain cultures and traditions that some might not want to lose.  Yes, it is strange that one would toy with the possibility of a Monarchy, but you are all educated people, how long has the oldest democracy lasted?  and what killed it?

@Atheling

Indeed, deja vu....  I am grateful that you saw the connection with Thomas Jefferson, which had escaped me.   Next week I will be visiting 'Monticello' and ponder that the great man's letters, and 'his' Declaration of Independence, are still being read.  It is the principles embodied in that Declaration that became the bedrock for the Bill of Rights, including freedom of expression and the other 'amendments' to the Constitution intended to limit governmental power.  

The facile 'moral' (the lesson) is that, even today in the 21st century, there are still "frogs (make that 'white people') soliciting Jupiter for a king".   The harder lesson, or the sad truth, is that mankind does not seem to learn from its terrible mistakes. The 'adults' want to remain children.      

@marcfrans

Sounds like you'll be making a wonderful trip!

Jefferson is a hero to me, and his thoughts and writings are a source of inspiration in these dark times.

I hope you will enjoy your visit; please be sure to let me know how it goes!

Lost in a 'big forest'?

It is amazing, but in the 21st century there are still 'white people' who advocate monarchy, as Conservative Swede and Grandbois illustrate on this website.   In 'modern' Europe there are few institutions which have adopted "pc culture" more assiduously than the various remaining monarchies, including the Belgian one.  And for understandable reasons.

If life were only that simple!  Just get a "strong figure", a strongman, a 'monarch'....and the problem (of culture retention) is solved.  That seems to be the absurd reasoning.    Yep, that is the same reasoning so commonly found on the 'Arab street'.....the desire for a powerful strong leader. 

The truth is that 'white people', as well as other people, will have to win the battle of ideas and of values....in the education system, in the media, and in the ballot box!    And stop hiding behind kings, queens, and 'strong' leaders. That would be more civilised, and grownup, instead of reverting back to political childhood in the care of a big father figure.

 

@marcfrans

Deja vu...

"I am astonished at some people's considering a kingly government as a refuge. Advise such to read the fable of the frogs who solicited Jupiter for a king. If that does not put them to rights, send them to Europe, to see something of the trappings of monarchy, and I will undertake that every man shall go back thoroughly cured. If all the evils which can arise among us from the republican form of government, from this day to the day of judgment, could be put into a scale against what [France] suffers from its monarchical form in a week, or England in a month, the latter would preponderate." --Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Hawkins, 1787. ME 6:232

Losing your ancestral home

It seems like whites everywhere are being pushed out of their homes.  In places like Australia and America, the displaced natives are given generous government benefits.  I believe that it is time for whites to start giving themselves the benefits in their homelands and not give benefits to outsiders that do not want to assimilate and whom would not care if the white country (which they choose to live in over the own ancestral homeland) were to burn to the ground.  Either use Democracy to your advantage or else start the return of the king.  A strong monarchy will serve to retain culture much better than PC democracies.

I think France's last 200 years would have been better if they could have kept some remnants of the monarchy.

Maybe Belgium just needs a stronger monarch, or Wallonia needs a stronger monarch to get them to be as efficient as Flanders.

Is this article true? How

...the high birth rates of immigrants (15 times those of white Britons),...

That part, I suspect, is not true.

Following the Detroit Model

This all happened with Detroit. What will remain is a dangerous, unproductive yet expensive socialist/corrupt economy led by an incompetent (former) minority political elite that will send anyone with any skills or the means to leave fleeing. I find it fascinating that while Detroit vies with New Orleans for the highest murder/crime rate in the country, Troy, effectively a suburb comprised of white refugees from the city, has vied for the lowest crime rate in the US.