For at forstå det Store Svindel af politisk korrekthed, så må vi først fatte tilbagegangen for den arbejdende klasse (selvbetegnende som "middelklassen"), det vil sige dem som er nød til at sælge deres arbejdskraft for at tjene deres levebrød. Det arbejdende folks del af den nationale økonomi har været faldende i 46 år:
Kommentar: I oversættelsen er brugt det arbejdende folk og ikke arbejderklassen som er et ord som ikke længere er rigtigt betegnede for det som der reelt beskrives i artiklen. De fleste af dem som vil beskrive sig selv som middelklasse (altså ikke tilhørende eliten eller er på fattiggården) vil ikke se sig selv som arbejderklasse som hører en anden tid og tankegang til.
Så hvor henne er den velstand som er blevet skabt endt? I hænderne på den 0.1%:
Kommentar: Denne artikel er blot delvis oversat til dansk af sott.net fra: The Great Con: Political correctness has marginalized the working class
Let's look at political correctness and identity politics through the lens of class warfare and class consciousness. Those enjoying enormous gains in wealth and income have a problem: they must fragment and distract the bottom 95% who have lost income and wealth to the top 5%, lest the bottom 95% realize:
1. We have lost the undeclared economic war
2. We have more in common economically with others in the bottom 95% than we do with our neofeudal technocrat/ managerial overlords.
This unifying class consciousness would threaten the wealth, power and perquisites of the neofeudal technocrat/ managerial class, so they had to undermine an economic awareness of class. They found the perfect weapon in identity politics and political correctness.
What better way to fragment the working class than to carve it into cultural subclasses that could be manipulated into declaring war on each other? What better way to mask the collapse of working class political agency than to distract the bottom 95% with fake-Progressive double-speak about "empowerment," "safe spaces" and "micro-aggression"?
The heart of the Great Con of identity politics and political correctness is a tragic irony: the more wealth, income and power that slip through the fingers of the bottom 95%, the more their overlords rely on social "empowerment," as if a "safe space" on campus is a substitute for real political and economic agency. That's the Great Con of political correctness: using worthless speech acts about empowerment to distract the working class from its disempowerment in the real world. No amount of "safe space" and happy talk about empowerment can replace meaningful opportunities for economic security and advancement--precisely what is abundant for the protected technocrat/ managerial class and scarce for the unprotected 95% that's been sold down the river.
The propaganda beauty of class-consciousness-destroying political correctness is its deceptive claim of "progressive." If you set out to design the perfect tool to enforced neofeudalism (the political and economic dominance of the protected few at the expense of the exploited many), you'd choose an Orwellian fake-Progressive agenda of cultural fragmentation and conflict that undermines any class consciousness of shared economic disempowerment.
This is why the protected technocrat/ managerial class is freaking out about Trump's victory: the inchoate sense that the few have profited at the expense of the many is an expression of an emergent class consciousness that has the potential to threaten the neofeudal dominance of the New Nobility and its self-serving technocrat/ managerial class.
So when the protected class of well-paid institutional "progressives" speak darkly of "reversing 40 years of social progress," what they're really saying is we're terrified that the bottom 95% might be waking up to our Great Con of identity politics and political correctness.
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