Political Correctness, Not New

Repeating history. For those concerned about being muzzled by political correctness you might take some respite in how it was when the subject was slavery. 

In a book Jefferson, The Negro President, (he was called that because the population of slaves gave the slave states additional votes and him the presidency, the author writes how slave power used its political clout to silence opposition. The result being slavery was ignored as an issue in the north. Lincoln described the general attitude toward slavery:

You must not say anything about it in the free states because it is not there.  You must not say anything about it in the slave states because it is there. You must not say anything about it in the pulpit, because that is religion and has nothing to do with it. You must not say anything about it in politics because that will disturb the security of "my place."  There is no place to talk about it as being wrong, although you say to yourself it is wrong.

 Agreeing with Lincoln's description of the way the nation was made almost mute on the subject of slavery a fellow by the name of Theodore Parker wrote:

It silences the great sects, Trinitarian, Unitarian, Nullitarian: the chief ministers of this American Church---threefold in denomination, one in nature---have naught to say against slavery. The Tract Society dare not rebuke "the sum of all villainies." The Bible Society has no "Word of God" for the slave, the "revealed religion" is not revealed to him. Writers of schoolbooks "remember the hand that feeds them," and venture no word against the national crime that threatens to become also the national ruin . . . The Democratic hands of America have sewed up her own mouth with an iron thread.

Political correctness is not new to our time and will not be anymore long-lasting than it was on the subject of slavery. 

Thanks, John Jenkins
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Gatlinburg, TN

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