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Thursday, August 24, 2017

On that "Conversation" about monuments - Mark Steyn notes ....

I notice that the left media and even Fox News talk about the "discussion" on statues, or opine on the "conversation" concerning public monuments.

This Newspeak is apparently supposed to con the plebes into thinking something civil or democratic is happening. All I've seen is politicians or other apparatchiks rushing to remove statues (fearing the wrath of the mob) or actual mobs tearing things down.

If this is discussion, or conversation, then rape must be a "social event," and sticking up the local convenience store a "financial transaction."
And book burning is for keeping warm. We live in a decadent age of totalitarian narcissism.

Read the whole thing. 

Addendum:
"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

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