“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, not 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 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
h/t dr0id