In an interview with Front Page Magazine one Dr. Theodore Dalrymple notes that:
This quote struck a chord with me, because this is how I feel all the time. However I never get the sense that the majority of people feel this way. Even my closest friends and family, the people who are most open and honest with me, generally seem to believe most of the PC nonsense shoved down their throats. Some may quibble with one or two tenants of political correctness here and there, but I can't think of many who think the whole thing is a bunch of nonsense. Most people don't have firm convictions on the nature of reality and just follow whatever the dominant stream of thought in their community seems to be. Of course many of us will probably agree that PC propaganda doesn't actually convince us but rather seems as a lie being shoved down society's throats. Yet do any of think most people feel this way? In my experience at least, for the big majority it seems like political correctness has effectively convinced them to accept its tenants as righteous and true.
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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.
This quote struck a chord with me, because this is how I feel all the time. However I never get the sense that the majority of people feel this way. Even my closest friends and family, the people who are most open and honest with me, generally seem to believe most of the PC nonsense shoved down their throats. Some may quibble with one or two tenants of political correctness here and there, but I can't think of many who think the whole thing is a bunch of nonsense. Most people don't have firm convictions on the nature of reality and just follow whatever the dominant stream of thought in their community seems to be. Of course many of us will probably agree that PC propaganda doesn't actually convince us but rather seems as a lie being shoved down society's throats. Yet do any of think most people feel this way? In my experience at least, for the big majority it seems like political correctness has effectively convinced them to accept its tenants as righteous and true.