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Revised on January 11^th, 2026

(Presented as a public service of Resources & Technology Symposia of Colorado's china–resources.net web–Site.)

Lindsey V. Maness, Jr.
Consulting Geologist
12875 West 15^th Drive
Golden, CO 80401–3501
Tel: 303–717–1020
E–Mail: LVManess@GMail.com

Politically–Correct Toilets don't Flush!

Political–Correctness asserts that anything that is different or deviates from the official line is incorrect (i.e., wrong!), and that anyone whose opinion differs is blocking human advancement (therefore, deserving of censure and repression). The very assertion of "correctness" eliminates any reasonable difference of opinion or civil discourse.

Both the term, Politically Correct (PC), and the movement were started by Mao Tse-Tung during the time he was considered a near-deity, both in China and among many of the naive, idealistic youth of the world. It was also the precursor to massive repression of all knowledge and expertise in China and to the resulting widespread starvation and extreme loss of human liberties and lives there, and in like–minded countries (e.g., Cambodia). Mao's cult of personality and profound distrust of the very concept of rights and freedoms of individuals were best expressed in official "politically–correct thought." From the rewriting of human history and literature, through the purging of language, and on into debasing the very concept of individual human rights, the PC Movement in America has faithfully honored the precepts of its founder to the present day.

In spite of often–vicious repression, skeptics of the "Politically–Correct" or "PC Movement" abound. It is probably not an accident that Mao's movement and term gained such a strong following among the American Vietnam–era draft–dodgers who took over most of America's academia, first by force and later by exclusionary tactics. The irony and tragedy is that American (indeed, Western) academia's prior history encouraged individual freedom of thought and expression, both anathema to PC reality. Universities are always fertile ground to recruit naive, rebellious, students anxious to be given "correct" answers they can parrot back for approval (good grades, social acceptance, etc.): thinking for oneself is so hard ... and even harder to teach.

The youth of today, in spite of pressure to the contrary by their peers and trusted teachers, need to learn to think clearly, rationally and logically for themselves. The PC–Movement is a hoax, along the same lines as religious cults, promising answers to all questions to those who vow unquestioning obedience. No more powerful gift can one give oneself than the ability to think clearly and to formulate a methodology to search for one's own truth.

In academia, where PCism is most onerous, a counter–culture free–speech movement is gaining momentum. This movement is prominently exemplified by a group called "FIRE," an acronym for the "Foundation for Individual Rights in Education." To see for yourself some of the ludicrous extents the PC crowd has tried to enforce on what they consider their home turf, contact FIRE, following.

FIRE Foundation for Individual Rights in Education
437 Chestnut Street, Suite 200
Philadelphia, PA 19106-....
Tel: 215-717-3473 Fax: 215-717-3440
E-Mail: fire@thefire.org Web-Site: http://www.thefire.org

Mark Twain was of the opinion that the best way to expose a fraud was through the use of humor. Like Mark Twain's death, the benefits of Political Correctness have been greatly exaggerated. In fact, many consider PC's "benefits," especially those which have been enacted into law (e.g., environmental extremism), to be liabilities that have led, inexorably, to both an erosion of our individual freedoms and of our standard of living. At the very least, most Americans would agree that the PC laws mandated on Americans to use "water–saving toilets" that must be flushed repeatedly, and that often clog, has been a counter–productive irritant in our daily lives. In that respect, PC toilets (and PC showers that dribble water) are a daily violation of my personal right to the Pursuit of Happiness enshrined in the US Constitution.

Speaking personally, it is the very height of irony that I, a Conservative Republican, was awarded a Chinese medal declaring me a "Friend of the People" when, in America, the PC crowd consider me an enemy of the people. My being a geologist who seeks the earth's bountiful resources to benefit the people of the earth has led to both praise (in modern–day China) and condemnation (from America's PC)! Of course, the older Chinese experienced the devastating consequences of "political–correctness" run amok; our PC crowd hasn't (yet!). One of my purposes in writing this piece is to encourage readers to think for themselves, rather than to let others (whether PC or not) think for them: if enough people think for themselves, the PC-movement will die a well–deserved death.

Without further ado, the sanctimonious sophistry that is PC follows.

Politically–Correct Toilets Don't Flush!

Politically–Correct Double–Talk

"Enemy of the People" = "Enemy of the Environment" and vice–versa.
"Politically Correct" = "Environmentally Correct" and vice–versa.
"Entrepreneurial Professor" = "Non–Teaching Research Professor" and vice–versa. These PC Heroes do not teach: their classes (if any) are taught by graduate students. These PC Heroes start their own businesses using taxpayer money, facilities, equipment, etc., to which they take title, in whole or in part. A private entrepreneur risks his own money: an entrepreneurial professor risks the taxpayer's money. Such ventures have good odds of surviving because their initial funding is a snap, no pay–back, facility rates are prestigious and dirt–cheap, access to motivated (and poorly paid) employees (students), preferential rates and terms on government contracts, can use .org (the PC "Stamp of Approval") on their web–sites, etc.
The Good Guys are always labeled by the media as "Democrats" or "Liberals." The Bad Guys are always labeled as "Conservatives." The really absurd PC views are best exemplified when the new rulers of former Communist Regimes are called "liberals," while the doctrinaire Communists they replaced are branded as "Conservatives." It is expecting a bit too much of anyone who is PC, even a journalist, to be literate enough to label an anti-Communist as a Conservative and an old-style Communist forced out of office as a Reactionary. Only the PC can blithely call Communists Conservatives. Remember, to the PC: Good = Liberal; Bad = Conservative.
They, Them, Their, pronouns that replace the "Deprecated" male pronouns, He, His, etc. Even when discussing a man, the pronouns "He" and "His" are unacceptable. However, when discussing a female, it is considered poor form not to use the appropriate feminine pronoun. It is perhaps asking too much literacy of the PC to use the singular pronoun "One" when a singular gender–neutral pronoun is desired? Of course, that usage already is well–established and would deprive the PC of their right to gut the English language by "deprecating" at will: of course, it would also deprive the PC of the pleasure of seeing the grimaces on the faces of the non–PC when forced to hear and read PC expressions.
Fairness in Employment. This PC–Concept is sometimes really slippery, and almost always invokes "preferences" based upon an officially–recognized PC class. After long, drawn–out court battles on behalf of a female sports journalist who demanded equal access in male locker rooms with male reporters, our courts ruled in her behalf. The result has been that nude male athletes are subject to the presence of female reporters while showering, changing clothes, etc. To illustrate just how slippery this PC concept is, male reporters are barred from the locker rooms of female athletes to protect their privacy. If the issue really is about fairness and equality, then the gender of reporters would be irrelevant in both male and female locker rooms.
Diversity. A PC catch–word, especially popular with the media, that implies someone is racist or sexist, or both.
Preferences. The PC concept that equality is impossible without creating special classes of people who are granted advantages over others not in a special class. The idea is that only by focussing on factors such as race, sex, ethnicity, sexual preferences, etc., can we declare such factors irrelevant.

Gender–Correct. Usually used in the sense of lacking gender–correctness, implying that someone is provably sexist unless a specific number of females is immediately hired. Relies on pseudo–scientific misapplication of statistics. Often is proposed by a team of high–priced lawyers seeking a big judgment against someone with deep pockets, or against someone who has the audacity to challenge PC doctrine.
Racially–Correct. Usually used in the sense of lacking racial–correctness, implying that someone is provably racist unless a specific number of minorities is immediately hired. Relies on pseudo–scientific misapplication of statistics. Often is proposed by a team of high–priced lawyers seeking a big judgment against someone with deep pockets, or against someone who has the audacity to challenge PC doctrine.
Environmentally–Correct. Someone who believes that all extractive industries are, by definition, irreparably harmful to the Goddess "GAIA" (earth), that all farm, ranches, fisheries, etc., must be closed down, forthwith, and that after all this is accomplished we will all live in paradise.

PC Euphemisms generally replace short non–PC expressions that everyone understands with longer PC words connected by a hyphen with the word "challenged." This is supposed to be less hurtful to the person so described, but being called "weight–challenged" makes me fighting mad: just say I'm fat and leave it at that!

Politically–Correct (A person who follows, without question, the PC–line)
Ethically–Challenged (A PC liar, cheat and thief. His heart is in the right "PC" place.)
Fascist Enemy of the People (A non–PC liar, cheat and thief. His heart is not in the right "PC" place.)
Sexist Pig (A non–PC male.)
Strong Feminist (A man–hating PC female.)
Weight–Challenged (Fat.)
Hirsute–Challenged (Bald.)
Intellectually–Challenged (Stupid.)
Gender–Challenged (A Transvestite.)
Strength–Challenged (Weak.)
Age–Challenged (Too Old or Too Young.)
Sexual Orientation (PC phrase enabling the avoidance of the non–PC word "homosexual.")
Deprecated (PC for removing a word, idea, concept or thing from the English language.)

Politically–Correct Freedoms and Rights

PC Freedom of Speech is only for the PC. Everyone else, shut up!
PC Freedom of the Press is only for the PC. Non–PC press is trashed.
PC Freedom of Religion is a misnomer. Religion is the opiate of the masses.
PC Freedom to Vote is not for the ignorant: only the PC are not ignorant.
PC Freedom of Association can exclude certain classes, but not others.
PC Right to Life applies only to certain ages and classes of people, animals, etc. For example, when there is a conflict, the needs of people are subordinate to the needs of "threatened" or "endangered" plants and animals. Also, the unborn have no rights at all.
PC Right to Liberty is dependent upon preferences based on age, sex, "sexual orientation," race, religion, ethnicity, etc.
PC Right to Pursuit of Happiness specifically excludes those with non–PC motives. PC "Water Saving Toilets" all too often don't flush, forcing Joe Citizen to deal with the unnecessary mess. In like manner, PC "Water Saving Showers" dribble rather than refresh and clean quickly: the results are more time spent in the shower and starting each day in a bad, rather than good, mood. The sociological impacts upon society of PC cures to imaginary ills have not been studied, but must be considerable. Many of us remember former President Jimmy Carter's mandate that 1/2 of fluorescent bulbs be removed from all governmental offices and the following "National Malaise," which was probably largely what is now termed "Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)", easily cured with well–lit work places. In like manner, PC–encouraged federal mandates to eliminate phosphate from detergents has resulted in dingy clothes (certainly) and an upsurge (probably) in incidents of skin diseases (e.g., necrotizing fasciitis, which two decades ago was almost unknown), head lice, etc.
PC Right of Access to the Disabled. (Selective in practice.) This right of access applies to privately–owned restaurants (e.g., McDonalds), businesses, and government buildings, but not to Wilderness Areas, in specific, and not to government–owned land, in general. The wholesale closure of roads on government–owned lands has been a burden, not just on the ordinary healthy citizen who desires access (which, until recently was readily available), but also on the disabled, to whom road closures have been absolutely exclusionary. The PC claim to be a protector of the rights of access to the disabled, but it is obvious that their sympathies do not extend beyond McDonald's to the Great Outdoors (where the disabled have been deprecated). It is also tragic that the closure of roads in National Forests, etc., has prevented the quick and easy extinguishing of forest fires and have led directly to the deaths of fire fighters.

The PC movement is Democratic: you must be a Democrat (or a Leftist) to be PC!

Democrats try to impose the rights of groups ("classes") over the rights of individuals.
Republicans believe passionately in the rights and responsibilities of individuals.

PC Heroes.

Earth First! (People Last!)
Earth Liberation Front! (Enslave and Impoverish People and deprive them of non–PC Recreation! Burn, Baby, Burn!)
Greenpeace (Greenbacks used to finance courageous assaults on peaceful people earning a living from the bounty of the earth.)
The Greens Party (An European Political Organ dedicated to shutting down the world's non–PC industries.)
Hacktivists (Self–styled PC–commandos who invade the privacy of the non–PC and vandalize their computers to silence them. This is equivalent to sneaking into someone's home and committing arson as intimidation. With modern hacking software and trusting computer users, the "intellectually–challenged Hacktivists" usually find such vandalism easy and give the added bonus of a feeling of intellectual superiority over the unsuspecting victim.)
The Monkey-Wrench Gang (PC Thugs who proudly endanger the lives and health of those who earn their livings from the earth's bounty.)
"Best–Available Technology". Use of Best–Available Technology in remediation of pollution is enshrined in the environmentalists' Walhalla. It forces mining firms to incur huge fees (shut 'em down!), delays operations and is a constantly–changing target. Usually the Best–Available Technology has been recently developed by a non–teaching research professor (PC hero!) who "needs the money more than the private sector does." Best of all, the ostensible "Best–Available Technology" often does not work and makes matters worse, which also has its benefits for PCdom. For example, the Summitville Gold Mine (an environmental cause celebre) did not leak toxic water until the impoundments were "improved" using the Best–Available Technology mandated by federal regulators. Each such "improvement" had its immediate consequence, ad nauseum. The only real beneficiaries of the Summitville debacle (post environmental "improvements") were the farmers downstream, who found that the acid water from the mine significantly improved their crop yields (their soil has a too–high pH, which the acid lowered). The streams in the area have always been acidic (having a locally–developed ecosystem), because of the naturally–occurring sulfur in the rocks oxidizing into sulfurous and sulfuric acid. The bottom line is that the whole environmental cleanup of Summitville has been an expensive boondoggle of massive extent. Reason and science need to prevail, not PC pseudo–science and uninformed hysterical rhetoric. Even now, there is much of value to mankind on Summitville, including huge deposits of clays for bricks, tiles and pottery: the reality is that no miner in his right mind would touch Summitville with a ten–foot pole because of the associated environmental hysterical.
No–Fault Legal System Fundamental to the PC view of the universe is that all people are without power or responsibility: to the PC, people are buffeted about willy–nilly by forces beyond their control and they have a right to sue whoever has the deepest pockets.

No Personal Responsibility. This PC Concept enables a woman who buys a cup of hot coffee and spills it on herself while driving to sue the seller (McDonald's) for big bucks, and win!
Sue the Entity With the Most Money. If the person at fault has little or no money (or if it is the one who is suing!), sue the nearest party with the deepest pockets. With our PC court system, it makes sense for the party sued to settle without letting the case go to court.
Never Admit Fault: Never Apologize. The very concept of "correctness" is irreparably harmed when one says: "I was wrong: Please accept my sincerest apology." It is so much better to let the bastard you hurt suffer and seek revenge than it is to be civil, courteous and polite. Besides, everyone knows that "Manners" is an outmoded concept, long–since deprecated.

PC Enemies.

Sexists. (Selective. Refers only to males: women cannot, by PC–definition, be sexist.)
Racists. (Selective. Refers only to white people: people of color and other "minorities" cannot, by PC–defintion, be racist.)
Miners, Oil Men, Geologists, Geophysicists, Foresters, Ranchers, Farmers, etc. The real reason for the PC causes of eliminating roads and for expanding "Wilderness Areas" is to prevent any extraction of natural resources by the non–PC. That society and people need these resources to survive is considered irrelevant and, probably, false (by the PC). To the PC, if a miner digs a hole 3' by 3' by 3' to extract aquamarines (e.g., on Mount Antero, CO) for profit, an unforgivable assault on the earth has been made, generating scars on the earth that will never heal. However, if a self–labeled "PC environmentalist" digs the exact same 3' by 3' by 3' hole to extract aquamarines for a profit, then social justice with no harm to the earth is done! And the PC–Environmentalist will feel not just justified, but "morally" obligated, to force that miner off the mountain, using any means necessary (from irritating vandalism and blocking access to the potentially deadly cutting of auto brake lines, rolling of large stones toward the geologist, etc.).
Boy Scouts Scouts are taught to think for themselves: this, alone, is enough to cast them outside the PC sphere of the acceptable. Parents want their boys to be led by Role Models of masculine virtue: the quaint idea is that during their formative years, boys will tend to emulate their leaders and become responsible citizens with admirable qualities. Parents do not want their male boys to be controlled by homosexual men who, by definition, prefer to sodomize (a "deprecated" word) other males and who suffer from AIDS as a result. The PC–view is that one's "sexual–orientation" is irrelevant, even though the BSA made the rule in response to prior tragedies and their devout (Constitutionally–protected) religious belief that homosexuality is biblically–condemned as a perversion. The words "Morally Straight in the Boy Scouts oath are fighting words to the PC, who consider everything to be relative (i.e., no such thing as "right" and "wrong"). The BSA has also been sued on numerous occasions when homosexual scoutmasters abused (sexually) their positions of trust by sodomizing boys: when the courts simultaneously rule that the BSA must and must not, then PC–lawyers will be happy (and prosperous). And the BSA will be doomed.
Strict Heterosexuals The media reports extensively the lurid details of murders of homosexuals by heterosexuals. In contrast, the media reports little or nothing of the far more numerous incidents of torture–sodomy–murder of young males by homosexuals. To even acknowledge that such occurs would not be PC: it has been deprecated.
Republicans The rights of individuals are above the rights of groups for, without individual rights there can be no group rights or any rights at all.
Professors who expect their students to think. Actually, anyone who encourages others to think for themselves is an implacable enemy of the PC, but none so much as the academic who actually teaches.
Non–PC polluters are Environmental Enemies. PC polluters are not Environmental Enemies. People intentionally drink beer, but not a witch's brew of chemical and radioactive poisons: which pollutant do you think results in severe punishment and which gets expressions of sympathy?

COORS Brewing Company, owned by Conservatives (not PC), is crucified in the press, politically, etc., and forced to pay huge fines every time some of their beer spills into Clear Creek. Governmental data bases list COORS Brewery as a dangerous pollution source.
The Colorado School of Mines, with a strong PC–contingent of non–teaching research professors, received sympathy and offers of assistance when it spilled (several times) carcinogenic halogenated hydrocarbons and radiogenic waste in Clear Creek. Governmental data bases do not list CSM as a pollution source, not at all. Never has, never will, because CSM is public sector and, therefore, a "Good Guy" to the PC. It is regrettable that governmental data bases about pollution sources routinely omit non–profit PC "Good Guys" while listing taxpaying non–PC "Bad Guys." If the goal was truly to correct and prevent pollution, listing and enforcement would be impartial and even–handed.

Any for–profit Firm is not PC. (Profit is sleaze. Capitalism is evil!) The irony is that tax–subsidized non–profits compete with taxpayers for the same contracts and often depend upon the same governmental data bases.

Taxpaying entities (individuals, companies & corporations) pay higher rates and endure more onerous terms when purchasing governmental information.
Non–Taxpaying Entities (e.g., 501C3 & 501C6 nominally "non–profit" corporations) pay lower rates (often free!) and enjoy preferential terms when acquiring governmental information.
Carter–Era Regulations (with the force of law) ostensibly intended to "Level the Playing Field" often require that certain types of contracts be awarded only to universities and non–profits (usually university–affiliates), which can subcontract to whomever they please (usually to or through PC "non–teaching research professors"). Do these regulations really "level the playing field," or do they give the playing field to a preferred (PC) team?
.org (Non–Profit PC) is good. .com (For–Profit non–PC) is bad. The internet evolved to take into account the PC–sensibilities codified in Carter–Era Regulations.
Pornography The display of nudity (unless it is tax–subsidized "art" displaying homosexuality, bestiality, feces–clad religious figures, etc.) is considered anti–feminist and, therefore, not PC.

PC–states (e.g., California) have rolling blackouts, which they blame on the non–PC, especially the energy producers. Since the PC don't produce anything except rhetoric, loss–of–rights and poverty, the PC rules and regulations designed to close all sources of energy couldn't be to blame, could they? Texans are fond of saying: "Let the PC Bastards Freeze in the Dark." And so it shall be, because energy not produced cannot be consumed.

The PC have declared nuclear energy to be an enemy of the environment.
The PC have declared hydroelectric dams to be enemies of the environment.
The PC have declared energy from coal to be an enemy of the environment.
The PC have declared energy from natural gas to be an enemy of the environment.
The PC have declared transmission lines to be an enemy of the environment.
The PC have declared geothermal energy to be an enemy of the environment.
The PC have declared CO₂ gas to be an enemy of the environment. That humans generate CO₂ gas to keep warm, to generate electricity, etc., is unacceptable to the PC.
The PC have declared methane (CH₄) to be an enemy of the environment. They just haven't found any way to stop bovine flatulence, termite digestion and other natural methane sources (yet!). Since the primary PC–assumption is that mankind is at the root of all evil (i.e., every perceived wrong is caused by people), the logical PC–method of controlling methane emissions is by international treaty, federal law, governmental regulation, and the like. When the cows, termites, etc., ignore PC–regimentation attempts, the result will be cries of dismay about how non–PC scapegoats (take your pick!) are ruining the environment and must be punished! It couldn't be that Pogo was right (in a different context) when he said: "We have met the enemy and he is us."

PC–Science

(aka Money Cows for PC Non–Teaching Research Professors)

Global Warming (Not Good Science, but good to keep the grants rolling in and to use to meet anti–people PC goals). Geologists know from the rock record that changes in climate are normal and inevitable, and that climate changes predate (relatively recent) human presence on earth. The assertion by environmentalists (spouting the PC view) that all hypothetical climate changes are due to the activities of mankind, and therefore justify limiting (among other rights–eroding cases) emissions of CO₂ gases, are absurd. In contrast, it has been repeatedly demonstrated that the earth is a superb buffering mechanism (e.g., excess CO₂ gases are absorbed by plants and the ocean).
Food Safety

ALAR (An innocuous chemical used to preserve apples.) The PC crowd was able to bankrupt a large portion of an entire US agricultural sector by publishing sensational (untrue) claims of danger.
Irradiation (Uses radioactivity to preserve food, which does not, itself, become radioactive or in any way toxic.) Properly implemented, irradiation would have prevented innumerable illnesses, slowed the development of drug–resistant bacteria, bestowed a far longer shelf–life on foods, etc. The implementation of this technology was originally slowed by reasonable concerns about safety, which have long–since been shown to be far overblown. Recent attempts to approve irradiation to preserve foods have been thwarted by environmentalists, who have made it a PC–cause celebre.
E-Coli Escherischia Coliformia is a bacterium that occurs naturally in the intestines of many animals. While most strains of E-Coli are beneficial to the host (by improving digestion), some mutants are quite dangerous. PC initiatives, especially regarding "Organic Foods," have caused several lethal outbreaks of E-Coli which would not have otherwise occurred. Other diseases (e.g., Salmonella) have similarly been unnecessarily (easily preventably) deadly to people.

Pseudo–Science Run Amok, as when a representative of the Greens Party prominently alleged that beryllium in Kosovo proved the presence of a "Secret Nuclear Reactor." If beryllium is even present in measurable quantities in the air of Kosovo, it is almost certainly a by-product of smelting lead and zinc ores. Such hysterical claims lead to extreme measures (e.g., a military assault) that detract from rational, measured steps to correct the ills of society. A book could be written about the fear–mongering pseudo–science tactics employed so effectively by environmentalists. Of course, the media's role is to prominently report each new dire pseudo–scientific prediction and not to report any views other than the PC!

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