Quoting novelist Lionel Shriver, Clifford D. May says in
agreement that “'Political correctness' finds a new target” and that “Fiction
writing is now in the crosshairs.” These are, in fact, the title and subtitle
of May's latest article, published on September 20, 2016 in The Washington
Times.
I do not know enough about Lionel Shriver to comment on her
message, but I know enough about Clifford May to say he produced a piece that's
so politically correct, it is vintage Clifford May and vintage his own
creation, the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. What is politically
correct in what he did is that it is akin to what a space alien would do
sending a message to his home planet in which he describes the body of a Marathon runner on Planet Earth without mentioning his
legs.
To complete the analogy, it must be said that the roots of
the politically correct movement were planted by the Jews who vowed half a
century ago that they will “educate” the American public about Jewish
sensitivities. They threatened to sue, and did in fact sue, many who deviated
from the norms they put down for conversations that touch on topics considered
of interest to Jews and to Israel.
And while the Jews of yesterday were at the roots of
political correctness, the most striking manifestation of the movement as it is
expressed today, lies in the fact that you can criticize the movement all you
want, but you cannot mention its Jewish roots. The result is that today's
“Jewish educated” public knows as much about the roots of the politically
correct movement as the home planet of the space alien knows that marathon
running exists because earthlings have legs.
Clifford May saw that the best way to develop his bogus
presentation is to bury the legs of the runner at the start, and then proceed
to describe the rest of the runner. To this end, he pulled off two tricks that
helped him greatly. First, he spoke of Orwell's Newspeak, goodthink and
crimethink. Second, he spoke of the vocabulary you may find “on university
campuses and in the mainstream media.” He thus established a kinship between
the two.
Without mentioning the Jewish roots of the phenomenon,
Clifford May went on to tell what's on his mind. Being the Jew that he is,
what's on his mind is what has always been there: the mutilation of history. To
achieve it, he attributes political correctness not to the Jewish drive to
educate the public, but to a generic state of mind called orthodoxy. He does
that without specifying it was Jewish orthodoxy that did it. This deception has
allowed him to complain that those who enforce orthodoxy “have become the new
Establishment” without mentioning the word Jew even once … without asserting
that the Jews have taken over the Establishment and have become it.
This done, May repeats a history that was described by
another Jew, Richard Bernstein, to which he adds his own views. All this leads
him to say that political correctness involves subjects like sexism, homophobia
and racism; an approach that helps him hide the fact that the legs of the
movement he buried, used to be denial of the Holocaust, antisemitism, suspicion
about Israel 's
legitimacy, the reviling of Zionism, and so on.
With that reality hidden from view, May discusses Shriver's
position about the kind of censoring that political correctness has brought to
literature. He does so without mentioning that the Jews have done the same
thing to many of the great classics such as Shakespeare's the Merchant of
Venice, and have gone on to ruin the lives of thousands of people because of
what they thought and what they wrote.
Clifford May also mentions Shriver's description of the
Brouhaha that ensued following a “sombrero” party without mentioning the
brouhaha that ensued in America when someone in Europe held a show that
featured fashion based on the attire worn in Holocaust-like concentration
camps.
And he brought into the open the subject of identity
politics without mentioning that the Jews – including his own organization –
are trying at this very moment to create a new identity that will make it
possible for any convert to Judaism to claim genetic kinship with the ancient
Hebrews, thus become instant heir to the land of Palestine regardless as to who
has lived there since the beginning of time and never left.