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Friday, March 23, 2007

EU Commission President Barroso: "Political Correctness is Killing Our Freedoms"

You cannot say it enough: liberals have so destroyed the English language with their politically correct horseshit that everyone must walk on eggshells when speaking. If you say one thing that is perceived as harming someone else, even if that was not your intention, you get stung - and you could lose your job, your life, your freedom.

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso of Portugal agrees - and says that the PC movement is "killing our freedoms."

'Political correctness is killing our freedoms'

Europe's citizens must be on their guard against political correctness and moralising politicians, says the European Commission President José Manuel Barroso in an interview with The Daily Telegraph.

The former Portuguese premier and centre-Right politician is concerned that freedom can be the loser in European culture wars over climate change, cheap air travel, Islam and free speech.

"We should be aware of people who, sometimes for good reasons, try to establish what I call private moral codes, for this or that, be it climate change, religious behaviour or any kind of social behaviour," he says.

Mr Barroso, a former Maoist student firebrand who fought against the Portuguese dictatorship in the early 1970s, still regards himself as a freedom fighter, even when the calls for bans or restrictions are in a worthy cause, such as global warming or respect for Muslim communities.

"I was 18 years old when a democratic revolution came to my country. Before we could not read the books or listen to the music we wanted," he says, speaking in his 13th-floor office in the Berlaymont building in Brussels. "I am radical on these matters. If there is an excess of freedom, it is better to have excess than less." Europe has been deeply divided over controversies surrounding Islam.

Violent protests on the continent, in the Middle East and in Asia followed the publication in a Danish newspaper of cartoons caricaturing the Prophet Mohammed and the Pope faced calls to apologise after a speech on theology and the origins of Islam sparked international controversy.

But Mr Barroso backs the right to offend.

"We have to show respect for all communities but the fundamental right of freedom of expression is for me more important than other collective rights," he says.


Notice that Barroso moved from far left to center-right. He knows of what he speaks.

Europe is worse than America when it comes to PC, but America is being ruined by the left's intolerance nonetheless. We must fight and resist PCism everywhere we can.

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