Tuesday, March 12, 2024
From Political Correctness to Cancel Culture
Critics who doubt that cancel culture exists would have us believe it is simply a matter of holding individuals accountable for their opinions, for their words and thoughts. But cancel culture does exist, and it employs clearly identifiable methods and patterns that rest on an ideological framework that ultimately undermines the political community.
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The English cultural critic Theodore Dalrymple (Anthony Malcolm Daniels, Dalrymple being a pen name) had this to say about the current infection of political correctness, with which we are currently saddled.
ReplyDelete“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
Nailed it. QED.
DeleteIn March of 2013 we had DongleGate, a PC cancellation of two programmer/analysts at a Python convention. The real upshot was that the target of the cancellation was immediately hired by a competitor, the female instigator was fired, and the dust settled. Who knew that we were looking at the tip of the iceberg?
Colleges and Universities get away with this crap because the students don't know any better, and most have never learned to make their own decisions. So - cancel.
Political Correctness is a pain in the ass and oh so bloody stupid
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