Reminds me of:
The Purpose Of Political Correctness Is To Humiliate by R. SCOTT CLARK on February 21, 2015 | 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. —Theodore Dalrymple, “Our Culture, What’s Left Of It”
“I think if you examine political correctness...”
At its essence political correctness is simply a new public etiquette - a set of redefined acceptable behavior.
Whereas traditional etiquette evolved naturally over the years as a way to politely coexist with others, political correctness is a fabricated set of mores and values that the left wants to shove down our throat and that results in the exact opposite of peaceful coexistence.
It’s radicalism at its core, which is the hallmark of the left - blow up the old tested and proven system and replace it with some unproven, untested, harebrained, half baked idea.