All hail erudition

I do so enjoy the erudition of the honourable Theodore Dalrymple. In the following quote he succinctly renders impotent the labyrinthine secret contortions of political correctness:

“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 - in an interview in FrontPageMagazine.com (August 31, 2005)

To the uninitiated, the communist threat has not disappeared with the break up of the Soviet union, it cannot because its motivating agent is a spiritual rather than an physical entity, it merely changes its shape.