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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; bigheadfred; ColdOne; ...
From Frontpage Interview with Dr. Theodore Dalrymple: Our Culture, What's Left Of It [August 31, 2005]:
Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to."

123 posted on 01/22/2011 5:21:32 AM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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I remember that excerpt and it is a really good analysis of what wen on back then and now. Shared lies that are obvious lies


125 posted on 01/22/2011 1:35:17 PM PST by dennisw (- - - -He who does not economize will have to agonize - - - - - Confucius)
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