In the past week we have seen three different events on the National scale that have driven a great deal of conversation in this country. First there was the Don Imus imbroglio. Second there was the Duke Lacrosse players vindication. Third there was the mass murder at Virginia Tech University.

When looking at these three recent events the question arises as to whether or not they have anything in common. Is there any ideological mortar that serves to give some unitary meaning to these diverse current events? I believe there is.

Before looking at what I consider to be the thread of continuity that runs through these events I would first like to notice that others are looking for a thread of continuity in these events as well. Senator Barack Obama drew a connection in a speech in Wisconsin on Monday between the violence that occurred in Blacksburg, Virginia with the verbal violence that occurred on the Don Imus radio program. Sen. Obama’s contention is that we need to work on ending all these violences. The Senator from Illinois didn’t mention anything about the violence of false accusation in the Duke Lacrosse case. To be honest this speech read like a upscale version of Rodney King’s, “Can’t we all just get along,” homily, but beyond the seeming incongruity in linking offensive speech with thirty-two dead people we should at least give the Junior Illinois Senator kudos for attempting to find some continuity in these events that would turn these isolated happenings into a meaningful whole.

So the Senator was correct to look for linkage but woefully inadequate in the linkage he construed. The linkage doesn’t lie in Government officials telling us of the need to play nice but rather the linkage is the connection with political correctness that all these events have. Political correctness is the mortar that serves to give a whole meaning to these otherwise random events.

Political correctness is the petrol that drives the engine of the Worldview of Cultural Marxism. Cultural Marxism (neo-marxism) is a Worldview that has been embraced by much of the elite in the West and is seeking to reach hegemony, and the simplest explanation of what it is, is to simply note that it is the opposite of Christianity. Where Christianity emphasizes order, Cultural Marxism emphasizes chaos. Where Christianity emphasizes transcendent meaning, Cultural Marxism emphasizes subjectively created meaning. Where Christianity emphasizes objective knowable Truth, Cultural Marxism emphasizes process philosophy / theology. Where Christianity emphasizes hierarchal distinctions (men are different than women, God created a plurality of people groups thus cherishing variety, parents are different than children, Kings are different than peasants, scholars are different than students, etc.) Neo-Marxism emphasizes a radical egalitarianism (men and women, Kings and peasants, Scholars and students, parents and children, people groups… are all the same) where distinctions must be overturned. Because Cultural Marxism is radically opposed to the culture that Christianity creates Culture Marxism works to absolutely invert Christian culture so that all categories that Christian culture creates are stood on its head. The result of this is that male headship is attacked (in order to negate male leadership), the attainment of children’s rights are pursued (in order to negate parental rights), male and female roles are obliterated (giving us a gender blender society), the perverted replaces the virtuous so that what was once thought to be virtuous is not thought to be perverted (and so perversion dare not be attacked as perverted), and the ignorant are hailed to be genius.

Neo-Marxism in its pursuit of the perfect anti-Christ culture has given us the destruction of the author one finds in deconstructionism because if authorial intent is allowed to survive then the author has place of privilege over the reader and in a egalitarian society the primacy of the author over the reader will never do. Since Cultural Marxism is driven by process philosophy / theology the only tradition that is allowed is the tradition of no tradition. As such Neo-Marxism seeks to cut off every generation from every previous generation with the consequence that the respect for the aged that one should find in Christian culture is a replaced with disdain for the aged. In the end Cultural Marxism is the anti-culture culture and produces the anti-civilization civilization where the pervert is King.

Much more should be said here concerning Cultural Marxism but connections still have to be made.

Now, Political correctness is the fuel that serves and drives this Worldview. Political correctness works in the concrete to advance what Cultural Marxism teaches in the abstract. As such political correctness works, to bring social change by means of media outlets, educational propaganda, advertising subtleties, and political legislation. Through these concrete means political correctness works to redress what it claims are the historical injustices brought about by Christianity and Christian culture. The consequence of this action is that it first works to inculcate in people a sense of injustice and victimhood that only can be relieved by following its plan of action to punish those perceived by the Cultural Marxist to be part of the group who preyed upon the victimized group. So in the land of the politically correct any group that can make any kind of case that it has been victimized or abused by the remnants of Christian culture are to be listened to, while the perceived victimizers need not even try and make a case that their alleged victims are mistaken.

Now, after setting the backdrop we can see how all these events spoken of at the beginning are all connected by the prevailing currents of Cultural Marxism and political correctness. With the Duke case the young men were guilty for no other reason than because they were white males. White Males have been victimizers forever in Western Christian culture. As Whites they were guilty of victimizing blacks just by their ethnicity and as males they were guilty of victimizing a female just by virtue of their maleness. In the Virginia Tech case political correctness prevented legislation in the Virginia State house that would have allowed students to carry permitted concealed weapons on campus. Everyone knows that guns have been the means by which victimized people have been oppressed (not to mention that guns are in the way of Cultural Marxism running the table in the West) and as such guns cannot be allowed on University campuses in Virginia because they are a symbol of oppression and all people must be equally defenseless. Finally the Imus case becomes a part of this only because of the double standard employed in the way it was handled. Political Correctness allows the victimized group to speak in degrading ways (hip hop lyrics) but does not allow the perceived victimizers to speak in the very same way (Don Imus’ vulgar language).

So, there is a common thread that unites all these events into one cohesive whole and that common thread is Cultural Marxism and political correctness. If it had not been for Political Correctness those Duke men would have never been charged. If it had not been for Political Correctness very possibly there would not have been as many dead bodies in Blacksburg, Virginia. If it had not been for Political Correctness the deserved firing of Don Imus would not have been greeted with such outrage over the hypocrisy of those calling for his head.

The internal problems we have experienced as a Nation in the last week are not disconnected. These events are united by the anti-culture culture’s attack on culture. It would be well to keep in mind that, ‘A house divided against itself cannot long stand.’