Nazism, Communism, Islamism and Political Correctness

There are many people who think that the solution to wrongful ideologies such as Nazism is political correctness. I have reason to doubt their claims. The real solution to bad ideas is not censorship or shaming, but real intelligence that refutes them.

I can refute Nazism in a paragraph. There is no such thing as the master race; different places did different things in their history, and during the Middle Ages the white, aryan, people were at the bottom of the world, and China was the world's top country. The Jews are not a monolithic entity, and there are all sorts of disagreements among the Jews. And if the Jews were, as Nazis claim, in control, and if the Jews were, as Nazis claim, evil, then the Nazis would be facing a firing squad. That they are instead free to spread their rubbish shows that either Jews are not in control, or that the Jews are so good that they are willing to let live the people who wish them dead. In either case, the Nazis are obviously wrong.

Communism is also easy to refute. There is no such thing as historical inevitability; people's choices will take history into any number of directions at any number of times. The businessman is not a thief or an exploiter, he is someone who gets things done. And the same problems that Marxists want to solve through class struggle can be solved much better through social mobility.

Islamism should also be confronted in the same manner. If not for America, then the people in Middle East would be practicing Communism; and if they were practicing Communism they would not be able to be Muslims at all; whereas with America as the top country they can be as Muslim as they want to be for as long as they are not killing Americans or their allies. The people who throw sulfuric acid into girls' faces for going to school – or the people who sell children into sexual slavery – have no business claiming to be moral and claiming the West to be less moral than them.

In all of the preceding scenarios, the real solution is real intelligence. It is only the lazy-minded person who thinks that censorship and shaming is the way. Use intelligence to deconstruct destructive fictions. The result will be bad ideas met with better ideas. And that is the purpose of the academic process.