Is The West Taking the Soviet Way?

Political correctness not only promotes group rights over those of the individual, preferring the powers of the bureaucracy to the freedoms guaranteed by the rule of law, it has a demoralizing and dehumanizing effect on the countries that have employed it.  As Theodore Dalrymple observes:

“from the point of view of the ruling power, the less true and more outrageously false the propaganda was, the better. For to force people to assent to propositions that are outrageously false, on pain of losing their livelihoods or worse, was to crush them morally and psychologically, and thus make them docile, easily manipulated, and complicit in their own enslavement.”

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