{"id":376832,"date":"2018-09-11T01:51:39","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T00:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/doug-casey-on-the-politically-correct-movement\/"},"modified":"2018-09-11T01:51:39","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T00:51:39","slug":"doug-casey-on-the-politically-correct-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/doug-casey-on-the-politically-correct-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"Doug Casey on the \u2018Politically Correct\u2019 Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Justin\u2019s note:\u00a0<\/strong>As regular\u00a0Dispatch<\/em>\u00a0readers know, every Friday we feature no-filtered insights from Doug Casey. You see, Doug isn\u2019t just a world-class speculator. He\u2019s a rare, independent thinker and a walking encyclopedia. Best of all, he isn\u2019t afraid to speak his mind. It\u2019s no surprise that these interviews have been a favorite among our readers.<\/p>\n

Today, Doug and I talk about why the \u201cpolitically correct\u201d or \u201cPC\u201d movement is destroying America\u2026<\/p>\n\n

Justin Spittler:<\/strong>\u00a0Doug, I want to ask you about political correctness. Obviously, PC culture\u2019s nothing new, but it kind of seems like it\u2019s spreading like cancer these days. Terms like \u201cgender inclusivity,\u201d \u201ccultural appropriation,\u201d and \u201cwhite privilege\u201d are everywhere.<\/p>\n

A good example is last year\u2019s announcement by the University of Minnesota\u2026 saying it was dropping the names \u201cHomecoming King and Queen\u201d in favor of \u201cRoyals.\u201d It did this in the name of \u201cgender inclusivity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Is PC culture getting totally out of hand, or am I going crazy?<\/p>\n

Doug Casey:<\/strong>\u00a0Parts of the culture are borderline insane. There\u2019ve been news items regarding this on scores of different colleges and universities across the US. What you mentioned at the University of Minnesota was just part of a greater movement. Although I\u2019ve got to say that I find the use of \u201cRoyals\u201d objectionable. I dislike the idea of a hereditary aristocracy\u2014kings and queens and royals. They\u2019re basically just successful, silk-clad gangsters. Why the royal family in Britain is looked up to is a mystery to me. They, like all royals in the world, historically are just descendants of successful thugs.
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Justin\u2019s note:\u00a0As regular\u00a0Dispatch\u00a0readers know, every Friday we feature no-filtered insights from Doug Casey. You see, Doug isn\u2019t just a world-class speculator. He\u2019s a rare, independent thinker and a walking encyclopedia. Best of all, he isn\u2019t afraid to speak his mind. It\u2019s no surprise that these interviews have been a favorite among our readers. Today, Doug […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-376832","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}