Posted on 12/17/2018 5:03:30 PM PST by marktwain
Journal-worthy ping.
Politically correctness arguably got started with interpretations of the Holy Bible, then later, interpretations of the Constitution before the ink had dried.
Super interesting..!
Duly noted and it will be repro’d in coming weeks.
Bttt
L8r
For later,,
Are you sure it was Sowell? Dinesh D’Souza wrote an article with that very title in the early ‘90s.
I remember when Marilyn Vos Savant wrote an article in Parade magazine about PC. She thought it was one thing to be sensitive to others beliefs and feelings but she also said it was asinine to actually believe this crap. (OK, I probably paraphrased it a little.)
Save to read tomorrow/ this looks good
Aimed at Western Civilization and Biblical Christianity, the twin pillars of genuine liberty.
“In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not 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...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 [Wiki attributes this to Anthony Daniels, TD is his nom de plume]
I think I recognize that quote from Dalrymple’s book The Wilder Shores of Marx, a fascinating travelogue of his journey through the outposts of communism in its death throes. This included Romania, Vietnam, Cuba, North Korea, etc. in the late eighties.
Thanks caseinpoint.
I think Marcuse was allowed to fester in academia because academia had undergone a crisis of authority. It would have been tough to sack him because of the evil he was plotting in his writings. The keepers of knowledge in a society need to be able to exercise judgment regarding who belongs in their pantheon. The univeristies had already been brought low by the long, slow subjectivizing of knowledge to the point where they could do nothing but open wide their doors to anyone who had the right credentials and claimed to be onto something new.
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