Today’s liberty quote on politically correct speech:
“No one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to produce a uniform pattern of public utterance in which the first trace of unorthodox thought immediately reveals itself as a jarring dissonance.”
Get enough of those “thou shall not say” words and phrases into the Lexicon of Forbidden Words, and it’s off to the races for fascists and other so-called liberals, who are dying to catch you in the act and/or take you to court.
As in (expletive) you, the man wrote, you gosh-darn (expletive).
Or: It’s wrong to call an African-American a (expletive) or a homosexual person a (expletive).
You may think this, but you can’t write it. You can’t even deprecate the use of such words without tiptoeing through the minefields of liberal, now mainstream, orthodoxy.
Get enough of those “thou shall not say” words and phrases into the reigning orthodoxy, and it’s off to the races for fascists and other so-called liberals.
(expletive) you, the man wrote, you gosh-darn (expletive).
or: It’s wrong to call an African-American a (expletive) or a homosexual person a (expletive).
That’s something I believe but can’t write. I can’t even deprecate the use of such words without tiptoeing through the minefields of liberal, now mainstream, orthodoxy.
Blithe Spirit 