Political Correctness

If I were to describe what Political Correctness is I would say it is an idealistic way of looking at things, a way in which literally every human being on earth and beyond has rights to live and to have a decent life. However, like Camelot it is an ideal not a reality except in people's minds. However, it has taken hold since LBJ signed the Civil Rights Bill and before that Camelot existed with John F. Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline Kennedy. So, it is best to say it is an ideal like Camelot that people strive in the U.S. and around the world to have in real life where everyone has a chance to live instead of the way most of the world is where only if you are born with the right skin color or caste to the right family do you have any rights to even live at all.

Also, political correctness seeks to abolish slavery of all nationalities. It seeks to end discrimination of any ethnic group or sexual preference around the world.

However, in reality most of the world outside of the U.S. and Europe has a very cynical attitude towards this point of view and derides it as completely unrealistic. So, the conflict of ideas is actually dangerous and could even spark a war between the U.S. and Europe on one side and Russia on the other. We are seeing this problem develop today in Ukraine.

With discrimination either as Russian propaganda through a KGB dissemination or by other means of targeting all Jewish people in Ukraine this problem of discrimination or the killing of Jewish people in Ukraine for Russian propaganda against Ukrainians, is a threat to world wide sensibilities and harkens back to the horrors of World War II.

So, here is the paradox. In many ways places like Russia, China and many other places on earth they are similar in some ways to the way the U.S. was in the 1950s in some ways. There was no political correctness at all then in the U.S. Though there were people starting to go in this direction for example, I knew even in 1963 and 64 when the Watts riots occurred in Los Angeles of people even on my own High School football team in Glendale California that went out with baseball bats to kill gays and black with baseball bats. Though this sickened me greatly this was something that a minority still did for fun on Friday and Saturday nights wherever they could find Black or gays out then in 1963 and 1964. The Civil Rights bill I believe was signed into law by Lyndon Baines Johnson in 1964 I believe.

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So, understanding Kennedy, Johnson and their legacy brought forth the beginnings of Political Correctness and Human rights of all colors and ethnic groups and sexes. 

 

However, this is still a work in progress for most of the world and places like Russia and China have mostly made it all the way to the 1950s as far as we were in the U.S. in regard to the way they might be beginning to think about human rights.

 

So, they are about 50 years behind (at least) the U.S., Canada and Europe in this sense. And this problem could actually start a war between Russia versus U.S and Europe partly because of these differences.