“Is there no end to the political hypocrisy elected officials will throw at us? No sense of decency or patriotism in the media? No sense that re-publication of baseless attacks is actually complicity, and damages their own credibility? Is there no understanding that one-sided stories undermine civic dialogue?”
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. (Baron Bodissey, Political Correctness—The Revenge of Marxism, Gates of Vienna)
Moscow did not believe in tears - they made others have them.