To the editor:

Political Correctness has been defined as "Fear of the Left"..in other words fear of offending your leftist friends. employers etc and holding the "wrong" views on social issues. Racism is defined as thinking one race is superior to another, and now has become a well entrenched "industry" in progressive circles.

Now, if you voted for President Trump, which I did and proudly, you are a racist..ditto if you are in favor of a wall on the southern border, don't support BLM (read its manifesto & for its conex to the Muslim Brotherhood), don't support same sex marriage or the newest offshoot, transgender bathrooms and all that entails, do support "extreme vetting" of immigrants from the Islamic world including a temporary ban, do support photo ID for anyone voting for anything or anyone.

Of course other name calling ensues, usually with a "phobia" adjective attached if you are guilty of any of the above or other "improper thinking". I would agree with the above definition of racism as it is pretty simple but now has been expanded to see a "racist" under every rock and around any corner and has become a generic word like "coke" when you order same in a restaurant..and of course the "social justice warriors" in our midst are the final judges of who or what is racist.

Heard recently that graduates of social programs at colleges are dumber when they come out than when they went in, in terms of critical thinking skills..which brings up the point that maybe college is not the only way to an education unless you want to be something like an engineer etc.

We need more auto mechanics than we do "social justice warriors"...just look at Middlebury College, UC Berkeley, Evergreen College and the others where you will be shouted down and out if you have a position other than the leftist one and also administrators who cave in to these violent urchins.

Oh yes, I am also in favor of keeping ALL Confederate Statues up, nationwide, unlike Sen Nancy Pelosi after being in Congress for 30+ years, now wants all such statues removed from Statuary Hall in DC..apparently she just now "not iced" them  and got the new "religion" of intolerance of her own political party so as to play to her base in liberal Northern California et al nationwide...and a woman's right to choose ??

Oh yeah..320,000 unborn children murdered by  the abortion "industry" last year...Iceland killing unborns with confirmed Down's Syndrome and then saying they have ended the condition and then some of you still vote for these people..and undoubtedly proudly...

Phil Stanat

Des Moines