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Wuhan Flu Reminder: Political Correctness Kills
https://www.americanthinker.com/arti...ess_kills.html
17 Mar 2020 ~~ By Fletch Daniels
Political correctness is not just harmless virtue-signaling navel-gazing by a bored “elite” first-world populace. It is both a weapon and a disease that kills.
On January 31, on a day when the entire national press corps was fully focused on unserious impeachment theater, President Trump declared a national health emergency and implemented a travel ban to and from China.
Apparently unhappy that Trump wasn’t curled up in the fetal position, all the usual suspects on the left screamed bloody murder, convinced he was trying to distract from their important issue. Only a couple countries followed suit, since most were afraid they would be labeled as xenophobic or branded with the dreaded scarlet R.
Joe Biden called it “hysterical xenophobia.” He’s still thundering about Trump’s xenophobic bans during his occasional lucid moments.
Yet, this single action bought incredibly precious time, perhaps the most valuable commodity when trying to defend citizens from this virus.
It is the reason we aren’t already like Italy or Spain, societies that have been wrecked. It gave us time to observe and study the disease and to implement the best defensive measures. It drove home the critical importance of social distancing as the single most important step in slowing its spread.
It also bought time to overcome our bloated and ineffective bureaucracy while marshalling private industry.
Quite simply, putting American lives first while shrugging off political correctness saved many lives, the number of which we will never truly know.
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Americans were tired of the doublespeak that directly contradicted what was so obvious to them.
Luckily for America, the president was unwilling to be handcuffed by political correctness even as many other foreign leaders made fatal mistakes. We are at an inflection point in history. The Wuhan flu demonstrates once again that we can no longer afford politicians who worship at the altar of political correctness or attempt to weaponize it to overturn society. Stated another way, we no longer have the luxury of electing Democrats.
Comment:
Political Correctness will never leave us....It will never go away. It is a potent poisonous tool for the Progressive Marxist Socialist/DSA Left. The only way to contain it is to treat it as a contagious disease and isolate it to regain control of our culture. If rational people were in charge at our schools, entertainment industry, and news media we could teach young minds exactly how virulent and insidious Political Correctness is.
The phrase "Politically Correct" has its origins in Soviet observations and writing:
"Boris: Lysenkoism will feed the nation!Vitaly. But, Comrade, there is no food and the wheat crop has failed.Boris: You are factually correct, but politically incorrect."
So, political correctness isn't merely virtue signaling, although in America it does serves to demonstrate "Wokeness". It signals that you are on board with the party message, willing to toe the line. That you understand the consequences of independent thought or words. There was, under the Soviet, an implied threat to political incorrectness, and no less now in America. Wandering off the narrow path will get you harassed, or fired, or punched. Sometimes these are the actions of private individuals, as with pro-life advocates being attacked on campus, sometimes at the urging of public figures like Maxine Waters' call to harry people in the Trump administration. Sometimes, like Joaquin Castro's publishing a list of Trump diners in his district, it comes from the actual elected official.Political correctness is the denial of reality for the sake of conformity under threat.
As we see today Progressive Marxist Socialist/DSA Democrat Leftist believe that P.C. is more important fighting a pandemic that we know had it's origins in Wuhan China, than fighting the virus itself. They tell us it's Racist... It's their latest click word next to Russia, Russia....
