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To: Bigg Red; ClaireSolt; denydenydeny; freedomfiter2; PzLdr

Whoops. Previous reply.


8 posted on 04/02/2007 11:17:52 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (I last updated my profile on Monday, April 2, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Bigg Red; ClaireSolt; denydenydeny; freedomfiter2; PzLdr
Did I say previous reply? I meant, "next reply". ;') [blush]

I came across this quote on Former Dodger's profile. It's apropos.
Theodore Dalrymple, in a recent interview:
"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."

9 posted on 04/02/2007 11:18:47 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (I last updated my profile on Monday, April 2, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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