Kathleen Parker is the stealth copy of Ann Coulter/Michelle Malkin. Lesser known and with a more kindly style she pushes the same Right-wing drivel as the above mentioned Whores of the GOP Base. One often has to read down a few paragraphs before the bell tolls and you realize Parker is just as over the top as the other two. Perhaps we will be seeing more of Kathy after the GOP nominee is picked and they have to move from sucking off The Base to pretending to be centrists. But Kathy fell out of form the other day and got right to it.
You Can’t Say That. Ever.
Kathleen Parker
WASHINGTON — The latest smack-down of former Harvard President Lawrence Summers should extinguish any remaining doubt that political correctness is the new McCarthyism… For thinking improper thoughts, Summers the Blasphemer was banished into the outer darkness. There’s no debating that he was punished for saying something that made a special group feel bad — the new blacklisting offense. To be called a sexist, racist or homophobe today is tantamount to being a communist sympathizer 50-60 years ago.
I have been screeching online from the mountaintop for 14 years that Political Correctness is the issue that has caused the conservative ascendancy we have suffered for a generation – and all I hear is my echo here every week or so. More straight Republican levers have been pulled over this issue of "Liberal McCarthyism" and "Liberal Nazis" than any other issue beyond the GOP base. It has worked better than any political propaganda in American history.
This is especially onerous in that the primary form of political correctness these days is not from liberals, but from conservatives screeching about Democrats being unAmeircan, unpatriotic, troop non-supporting, "betray us" calling seditious cut and run cowardly traitors. Worse PC than anything liberals ever thought about.
Parkers’ first false premise is that Summers was forced to resign over his single statement that Girls are bad at math. Not true. The controversy included many similar fopahs regarding sexism, Affirmative Action and abandoning Israel, not to mention the even more important issues of his arrogant leadership and vocal intolerance of opinions he does not agree with, i.e., his own foray into PC. He resigned and went on to make more money as a director with the D.E. Shaw Group. BTW, Summers has been subsequently asked back as a Harvard Director and has accepted.
Parkers’ second and more dishonest false premise is that the faculty of a private university giving a no confidence vote to it’s director – who later voluntarily resigned – is no different than McCarthyism. Political Correctness concerns administrative reprimands in education and the workplace for what is said. McCarthyism was about THE GOVERNMENT using criminal statutes to throw people in jail and deny them work for what is thought. Nazism was about taking over the world and putting people of inferior races, religions and ethnicity in ovens for Christ sake.
Parkers’ conclusion is the same as it has been since Rush Limbaugh and the rest of Talk Radio made PC their central issue twenty years ago and ran with it to mind boggling success. Liberals are McCarthyite Nazis who want to put YOU in jail for what YOU think. Sadly, enough of the apolitical, non-partisan, moderate, disengaged, independent voters have sucked enough of this propaganda up to have put the Radical Right in charge of this country for a generation. Most people are mostly stupid. So please, think before you accuse others of political incorrectness, or better yet use the puerile namecalling generator instead.