I suspect the following quote summarizes some of that book:
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.
— Frontpage Interview with Dr. Theodore Dalrymple: Our Culture, What’s Left Of It interviewed by Jamie Glazov [August 31, 2005]
It also leads to, “if you can’t say it, eventually you won’t think it.”
We’re now seeing the results of what’s becoming Orwell’s “Thought Crime.”
If you don’t think that Google experiments with “social media score” in China, where people who don’t tow the line lose their jobs and homes, even winding up in re-education camps, will be coming to the United States, and I believe that the existing regime will turn the USA into a totalitarian state by USING corporations, like employers and banks (much like Obama tried to do with “Operation Choke Point,) to do the dirty work.
Mark
The book also goes into identity politics and how group identity is more important than individual idenitity.etc.