Political Correctness is a term used as a pejorative to describe policies, measures, or other constraints “allegedly” instituted for the purpose of not offending those of a particular societal “behavior” preference, e.g., ISIS' nasty habit of well..., or those for whom "white" lives don't matter, or those who excuse their lifestyle choices by some nebulous assertion of genetic predisposition.
However, when politically mandated, Political Correctness becomes political expediency in disguise.
Friday, January 29, 2016
Monday, January 18, 2016
A Misappropriated Dream
"... one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places plains, and the crooked places will be made straight... and before the Lord will be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together." With this crudely transcribed misappropriation of Scripture (cf. Isaiah 40:4-5), King concluded his "I Have a Dream" Black Liberation treatise.
"Misappropriation" is not an over statement, King plagiarized liberally and habitually from a variety of eloquent and high-minded sources in so much that Ralph E. Luker, King Papers Project researcher and civil rights historian, comments:
"Moreover, the farther King went in his academic career, the more deeply ingrained the patterns of borrowing language without clear attribution became. Thus, the plagiarism in his dissertation seemed to be, by then, the product of his long-established practice" (Ralph E. Luker "On Martin Luther King's Plagiarism" 2004-12-21).
King in Black Liberation eisegetical fashion "spiritualized," i.e., read into the Isaiah passage any idea he choose rather than allowing the literal contextual messianic meaning to pervade. It is one thing to misappropriate the words of men, but quite another to misappropriate the words of God to support a social or socialist gospel.
There are consequences for misappropriating Scripture even to end that blacks are liberated from real or supposed economic, political, or social, subjugation.
By Source (WP:NFCC#4), Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=36899467 Photo of the Martin Luther King Jr Memorial in Washington DC. Taken from the National Park Service website, and identified there as a NPS photo.
"Misappropriation" is not an over statement, King plagiarized liberally and habitually from a variety of eloquent and high-minded sources in so much that Ralph E. Luker, King Papers Project researcher and civil rights historian, comments:
"Moreover, the farther King went in his academic career, the more deeply ingrained the patterns of borrowing language without clear attribution became. Thus, the plagiarism in his dissertation seemed to be, by then, the product of his long-established practice" (Ralph E. Luker "On Martin Luther King's Plagiarism" 2004-12-21).
King in Black Liberation eisegetical fashion "spiritualized," i.e., read into the Isaiah passage any idea he choose rather than allowing the literal contextual messianic meaning to pervade. It is one thing to misappropriate the words of men, but quite another to misappropriate the words of God to support a social or socialist gospel.
There are consequences for misappropriating Scripture even to end that blacks are liberated from real or supposed economic, political, or social, subjugation.
"Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity" (Matthew 7:22-23).
By Source (WP:NFCC#4), Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=36899467 Photo of the Martin Luther King Jr Memorial in Washington DC. Taken from the National Park Service website, and identified there as a NPS photo.
Sunday, January 17, 2016
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