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THE PC CON

I agree that in recent years “political correctness” has turned into some sort of infectious mental disease. There are some hopeful signs, however, that the infectious agents, i.e. the incubators of such ideas, have overplayed their hands by now. The doctrine has reached such levels of absurdity in the meantime, that even the most docile people are regularly put into a state of disbelief and an increasing number of people actually begins to consider the whole shebang as nothing but a cruel joke. Even if the peak of mental insanity may have been reached, however, to really defeat the disease its root cause, i.e. its fundamental intellectual error, must be identified and eliminated.

The fundamental error, propagated relentlessly by the ruling elites all across the Western world is its egalitarian world view. They do not recognize, or rather they do not want to recognize what should be obvious to anyone with eyes to see: that every person is unique, different and unequal to all other persons, and that the same is true for every group of persons as compared to any other group. Moreover, each of these naturally different people and groups of people is faced with and must act under different external circumstances that they have inherited from and that have been shaped by their various different ancestors. Given this point of departure, then, it should be expected as perfectly normal and natural that the outcome of all this should be different as well: that is, that the achievements, the successes or the failures, of different people and different groups of people in life should be different, too.

In the egalitarian view, however, this natural, predictable and to-be-expected phenomenon of widespread and remarkable inequality represents a scandal. For if one assumes – against all empirical evidence – that all people and all groups of people are essentially equal, then the empirically observed, often massive and profound actual differences in the achievements of different persons and groups of persons and their respective ancestors must have some un-natural, i.e., morally questionable, causes that they, the ruling elites, must eliminate in order to restore mankind somehow to its allegedly original and natural state of human equality. From the egalitarian viewpoint, then, inequalities, in particular but not solely of income and wealth, do not arise from differences of personal achievements and the accumulation of such achievements through successive generations of biologically and genealogically related people, but either from cosmic luck of circumstances or by means of exploitation and discrimination and are accordingly “underserved.” And it is the “noble” task of the ruling elites, then, to rectify such inequities and injustices by means of income- and wealth-redistribution and various affirmative-action or non-discrimination laws. As well, it is up to the ruling elites to determine which differences, out of a countless number of observable differences between various individuals and groups of individuals, are to count as relevant and actionable or not, and how then to do the corrective “equalizing.” And in this endeavor, the Western power elites have concocted in the meantime a truly remarkable, and indeed remarkably perverse, rank order of people and groups of people, from the most “undeserving” and in most urgent need of making amends, all the way down to the most “disadvantaged” and entitled to the most generous compensation. There is occasionally disagreement among the reigning power elites regarding the exact location of some particular person or group of persons in this rank order. Sometimes a tie appears, and there is disagreement how to untie it. But there is almost unanimous agreement regarding the two extremes: the most deserving and the most undeserving.

The top spot of the most undeserving people is supposedly occupied by white men, and in particular white heterosexual men; and the top rank of the most deserving people is occupied by blacks, and in particular by black women and above all black lesbian women. That is: what we are essentially told to believe is this: Those people and groups of people and their respective ancestors that have apparently made the greatest contribution to human civilization, that have demonstrated the greatest ingenuity, enterprise and productivity and boast the largest amount of capital accumulation, general prosperity and common civility and thus offer the most attractive places for people to stay or go – precisely those people are supposedly in greatest need to make amends and offer compensation to all other people. And the most generous compensation they owe precisely to those of all people or groups of people, who have made the least contributions to human civilization, who show the greatest amount of social pathologies and who inhabit the least desirable locations. And why? Because the former allegedly do not deserve their superior position on account of their and their ancestors’ superior achievements, but they owe this position instead solely to cosmic luck, white privilege and exploitation; and likewise, the latter peoples’ inferior position is not the result of a lack of talent and achievement on their and their ancestors’ part, but solely the outcome of bad luck and victimhood: the victimization of blacks through conquest, colonization and discrimination by whites. – And on top of all this we are told that all biologically normal people, i.e. all heterosexual males and females, are supposed to apologize, bow down to and make amends to everyone of a different, anomalous sexual orientation.

(Incidentally: according to this view, the earlier mentioned ongoing mass migration of blacks and browns into territories dominated by whites is not a hostile invasion, then, but rather constitutes some long overdue restitution and reparation by white oppressors to their long suffering black and brown victims.)

Moreover and above: We are asked to believe all of this egalitarian nonsense by a ruling elite that is itself made up overwhelmingly of white heterosexual males and that, all the while diligently working on the destruction of their own, Western civilization with their equalizing redistribution policies, are themselves enjoying huge, highly unequal privileges and living in great, highly unequal comfort.

These elites have been amazingly successful in dumbing down their own people and managed to make them hold many patently foolish beliefs. But there are limits to the gullibility even of dull people. To ask their people to believe what the “politically correct” doctrine says about their position, rank and location in the global social fabric, is simply asking too much. It is too absurd to be believed. Indeed, it is so absurd that even many if not most of the allegedly most deserving beneficiaries of the ruling elites’ redistribution policies do not believe it.

As stated at the outset, then: Faced with increasing public opposition: of ridicule, defiance and resistance vis-a-vis the commandments of political correctness, and so as not to endanger their own legitimacy, I expect the ruling elites to retrench a bit from the current ideological frontier and tone their egalitarian message somewhat down from its present heights of absurdity. I would not even rule out a short “populist” interlude in reaction to the present state of mental derangement and insanity. But I expect any such relief to be only temporary. And I do not expect a return to normality, then, but rather the quick resumption of egalitarian causes, themes and narratives in ever new and innovative tunes and variations Because egalitarianism, and the compulsory re-distribution of income, wealth and social position, i.e. a policy of divide et impera, is part and parcel of what it is and requires to be a ruling class in control of a State.

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe

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