{"id":2969,"date":"2012-06-13T00:30:24","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T07:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2012\/06\/13\/muggle-born\/"},"modified":"2012-06-14T23:42:49","modified_gmt":"2012-06-15T06:42:49","slug":"muggle-born","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2012\/06\/muggle-born\/","title":{"rendered":"muggle born"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been writing this blog for a few years now.\u00a0 Before that I wrote a fair amount on Yahoo groups, various email lists, letters to fishwrap editors, etc.\u00a0 The 1st Am. has had its use-it-or-lose-it hooks into me since college.\u00a0 If we don’t write it, it won’t get written, and the country will be poorer for it.\u00a0 I figure it’s a duty of American citizenship.\u00a0 I’m sure the paper trail I’ve left will come back to haunt me in my dotage.\u00a0 Like the previous blog item<\/a> — which haunted me for a while before posting, I expect I’ll take some heat just as I took heat over posting the Coffman comment<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But when it comes to these matters, what other reasonable choice is there?\u00a0\u00a0 Should I be my own censor and suppress facts that I know are potentially material to sound public policy?\u00a0 Should I interrupt a reality feedback loop that could help advance a more sound leader or a more sound policy?<\/p>\n

The goal of political correctness is to get people to shut down their own inquiries and conclusions so that no judgments can issue from them about those who would take power.\u00a0 Political correctness turns sensitivity into a passive aggressive weapon that frees those who impose it from having to persuade other people on the merits.<\/p>\n

Political correctness is an excuse, a justification, a grant of legitimacy without proof.\u00a0 It is no basis for sound evolution of policy or leadership.\u00a0 People who practice political correctness are only fooling themselves.<\/p>\n

Look, I don’t like having to make the hard call where the forces of political correctness stand ready to pounce.\u00a0 I’m sure there will be a price to pay for my candor because my detractors are a most industrious group of people who won’t pass up an opportunity to attack someone who regularly hoists them on their own petards.\u00a0 Having a mythology that grants them endless fodder, and with their only requirement that something sound real, they can uncouple from objective reality at will to say literally anything they want, which they do quite often until they bump up against someone who calls them on it, at which point they usually jump in a new direction.<\/p>\n

People who don’t<\/em> grant themselves license to treat reality like soft clay have their hands full with the politically correct movers.\u00a0 It’s a game of wizzards and muggles.\u00a0 The muggles have no magic wands to wave or incantations to pronounce.\u00a0 All they can do is try to make sense of things in a blizzard of magic.<\/p>\n

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I’ve been writing this blog for a few years now.\u00a0 Before that I wrote a fair amount on Yahoo groups, various email lists, letters to fishwrap editors, etc.\u00a0 The 1st Am. has had its use-it-or-lose-it hooks into me since college.\u00a0 If we don’t write it, it won’t get written, and the country will be poorer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2969","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-free-speech","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}