Criz: Today our guest is PC Poobah I am glad you could join me today.

Poo: Call me Poo, and it’s good to be here.

Criz: Okay Poo, let’s get started. The term PC or politically correct is not new, in fact before it became fashionable in the United States it was in common usage in the Soviet Union where it was used to enforce the communist political orthodoxy. In the Soviet Union citizens who didn’t fall in line were demonized, persecuted, and sometimes killed, correct?

Poo: True, however, that isn’t how we use the phrase now. In America political correctness carries two primary meanings. The surface level goal is the eradication of speech that could offend. However, it’s primarily set up for the advancement of the secular progressive agenda.

Criz: But why would you reuse a phrase that carries such heavy baggage. Especially in light of the brutal enforcement of politically correct thought that so many Russian citizens endured?

Poo: Ouch, that is just hurtful. Sounds to me like you are just intolerant of civil discourse?

Criz: No, of course not. All that I am saying...

Poo: I suppose you don’t like African Americans either.

Criz: What…I don’t….What gave you….

Poo: Got you.

Criz: Excuse me?

Poo: Think about it.

Criz: Oh I see, that’s the PC enforcement mechanism. When I say something that might offend, or something that you simply don’t like, you demonize me.

Poo: Sure, no one wants to be called a bigot or a hater.

Criz: Of course not. And they will probably self censor out of fear that they might be labeled as such.

Poo: Right, and if we can scare people we don’t agree with, by painting them as hatful or bigoted, into shutting up we win.

Criz: But what if they aren’t being hateful or bigoted. Let’s say for instance that a white man calls an American of African decent “black”. But that person doesn’t mean anything negative by it.

Poo: It doesn’t matter. What is important is how the person on the receiving end of the conversation feels. And not even that, but the entire community to which that person belongs.

Criz: You mean that even though the black person isn’t personally offended by a phrase that isn’t meant to be offensive, the entire black community can be offended for him? Isn’t that a little warped?

Poo: Of course not. The black person simply didn’t know that he should have been offended. He just needs a little more education.

Criz: Can you give me a few more examples of PC?

Poo: Sure. Lets take for instance the word “history”, see the “HIS” at the beginning of the word? Are we saying through the use of that word that history is the story of men and not women? By doing this we can create a contention between the two and make them take sides against each other.

Criz: I thought that the word history just meant “inquiry”; it doesn’t have any gender assignment.

Poo: True, but it isn’t about truth, it is about perception. If we can put a wedge between the sexes and convince women that they should be outraged victims and they need to take action, and of course that any smart woman should be politically progressive, then we can change the political landscape. We can even take it one step further by spelling the word women, “womyn” to separate them even further. Finally, we can divide the history curriculum at large universities so that each minority has its own history.

Criz: That sounds really, uhm---stupid. But shouldn’t we be working to bring people together not tear them apart?

Poo: Don’t make me demonize you.

Criz: Sorry, what do you do with people who aren’t so easily intimidated? Who won’t shut up or fall into line?

Poo: Character assassination. Dig deep enough into a person’s background and you’re bound to find something. No one is perfect.

Criz: And if you don’t find anything?

Poo: Not likely, but if we don’t find something we will make it up. There is no shortage of unscrupulous people who will make up the tawdry details of some fictitious affair. Remember Clarence Thomas?

Criz: But that didn’t work out the way you wanted it to. He was still made a Supreme Court justice.

Poo: It actually worked out pretty well.

Criz: Explain.

Poo: Do you know how many honorable but flawed people declined to go into government work because they were afraid of the “Clarence Thomas treatment”?

Criz: Seems like it would have a chilling effect. But everyone is flawed even you.

Poo: That’s the best part. I might be flawed, but since I don’t claim to have any moral compass, you can’t claim that I am a hypocrite.

Criz: That doesn’t sound right or fair.

Poo: It’s not about fairness or right and wrong, political correctness is about power.

Criz: So you would do or say just about anything to accumulate more power? That sounds sort of Machiavellian doesn’t it?

Poo: That is really hurtful.

Criz: What --- I…?

Poo: Just kidding, you guys are so gullible. ---Your right it is Machiavellian. But who in our society, other than a few academics and historians, even know what that term means? Repackage Machiavellian thought it in terms of tolerance or compassion and you can sell the American people on just about anything.

Criz: Even if it’s neither?

Poo: Especially if it’s neither. Remember, the typical American citizen just isn’t paying attention.

Criz: Wow. This has been a very revealing interview. Thank you for coming.

Poo: My pleasure.