Language and the control of liberty
Writing in the Guardian Roy Hattersley takes those who ague against political correctness to task, he mentions the case where a 10 year old boy was taken to court for calling a classmate a “Paki” which Judge Jonathan Feinstein said was “political correctness gone mad”. Also the outburst of fictional TV detective Andy Dalziel against political correctness, which was notable because Dalziel was the first character to be allowed to get away with such policially un-correct language that I know of and was quite a shock to hear see TV actually showing what people say in true life instead of a politically correct version of it.
The whole point is as Hattersley says about thought control, control of the language leads to control of peoples thinking, which I think is Marxist credo.
“We think in words. If we use words that suggest there is something reprehensible about gays, women or ethnic minorities, that is how we come to think about them. What is more, our bad example can cause prejudice in others. Political correctness has helped change the world. It is at least in part because decent people denounce talk of poofters and queers that something approaching legal equality has been afforded to gay men. And it is because such language is still defended in the name of liberty and plain English that there are still some dark corners of society in which they are regarded as inferior.”
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