It’s a full-throated, un-nuanced, uncompromising defense of American nationalism, history and cherry-picked ideals.
Central to its thesis is the belief that nothing in America can’t be fixed by more patriotism enforced by public shaming, boycotts and policies to cut out foreign and non-American influences.
Insufficient displays of patriotism among the patriotically correct can result in exclusion from public life and ruined careers. It also restricts honest criticism of failed public policies.
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Central to its thesis is the belief that nothing in America can’t be fixed by more patriotism enforced by public shaming, boycotts and policies to cut out foreign and non-American influences.
Insufficient displays of patriotism among the patriotically correct can result in exclusion from public life and ruined careers. It also restricts honest criticism of failed public policies.
Alex Nowrasteh
“Conservatives use ‘patriotic correctness’ to regulate speech, behavior and acceptable opinions.”
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Get the patriotic correctness mug.A mental disorder characterized by a fierce self-loathing to the extent that the person wrongly assumes all other cultures and races are superior to his own. Political correctness should be more accurately called political cowardice because people who comply with PC rules ignore facts just to avoid confrontation. Confrontation is what is needed in many cases to facilitate a frank and honest discussion of problems that are facing our nation and society.
Michael Moore is an example of Political Correctness. He's the idiot that wrote a book titled "Stupid White Men" when in fact he is one of the stupidest white men around. He obviously hates himself and has good reason for that. He would do us all a favor by just killing himself instead of criticizing everyone else.
Terms such as Asian-American and African-American are meaningless because Asia and Africa are huge continents containing many countries and people of many races. When black Algerian youths were burning cars in Paris some idiot reported referred to them as African-American. How stupid is that?
Terms such as Asian-American and African-American are meaningless because Asia and Africa are huge continents containing many countries and people of many races. When black Algerian youths were burning cars in Paris some idiot reported referred to them as African-American. How stupid is that?
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A nervous system disorder involving the inability to prevent oneself from interrupting conversations they’re not a part of in an attempt to offer corrections on the subject at hand, but fail to provide anything of value because they actually know nothing of the subject.
Hey, don’t listen to them, Jordan. They don’t know anything about Rocket Science. I think they have correctile disfunction.
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-when you practice this you are practicing and participating in some unkown collective religion
-when you practice this you are practicing and participating in some unkown collective religion
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