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Wash Your Mouth Out! Bite Your Tongue! The Uses of Political Correctness

Posted on October 4, 2010, 11:39 am, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under The Big Picture.

Political Correctness is an antibody that attaches itself to your diseased discourse and protects the American immune system.

Tags: Andrew Goodman, April, Barack Obama, Birmingham church bombing, Birth of a Nation, Civil War, Civil War in Virginia Month, Confederacy, Confederate History Month, Confederates, D.W. Griffiths, Douglas Wilder, Emmett Till, First Amendment, George Allen, Governor Douglas Wilder, Governor Robert McDonnell, James Byrd, James Chaney, lynching, Medgar Evers, Michael Schwerner, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, political correctness, politicalcorrectness.com, politically incorrect, Polly Toynbee, President Obama, President Woodrow Wilson, racial epithets, rape, Robert McDonnell, Sarah Palin, Second American Revolution, slavery, Sons of Confederate Veterans, Viola Liuzzo, Virginia, Woodrow Wilson
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The Case of the Missing Monuments, or None Dare Call It Treason

Posted on July 5, 2010, 10:59 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under The Big Picture.

Cruising US-1 through the South (aka the Jefferson Davis Highway in places), way too much Confederate commemoration, way too fuzzy on actual history, and virtually no offsetting commemoration of slavery and its aftermath.

Tags: African American History Monument, Andrew Johnson, Brown v. Board of Education, capitols, Chapel Hill, Civil Rights Memorial, Civil War, Cloud Cuckoo Land, Cloudcuckoo Land, Columbia SC, Confederacy, Confederate States of America, Confederates, CSA, Dixie Highway, Dizzy Gillespie, federal aid highways, Federal Highway, freedom fighters, Highway 1, highway names, James Ostrowski, Jefferson Davis, Jefferson Davis Highway, Jim Crow, Key West, Mary McLeod Bethune, monumentation, monuments, monuments at state capitols, nationhood, Old Dominion State, Oliver Hill, Palmetto State, President Andrew Johnson, President Ulysses Grant, Raleigh NC, rebels, Richmond VA, slavery, Spottiswood Robinson, Stars and Bars, state capitols, Stonewall Jackson, Strom Thurmond, trail names, treason, U.S. Highway System, Ulysses Grant, Underground Railway, University of North Carolina, US-1
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Posts Tagged ‘Confederates’

Wash Your Mouth Out! Bite Your Tongue! The Uses of Political Correctness

The Case of the Missing Monuments, or None Dare Call It Treason

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