how effective are they in this realm?
The smart way to keep people passive and obedient
is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion
but allow very lively debate within that spectrum
even encourage the more critical and dissident views
That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on
while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced
by the limits put on the range of the debate..
~ Noam Chomsky ~
Political correctness is the narrowing of the range of acceptable opinions
to those held by a small group that enforces it
It is a attempt, often successful
to coerce the majority to accept the opinions of the enforcing group
by suppressing any contrary opinion
and making independent thought unacceptable..
The most dangerous man, to any government
is the man who is able to think things out for himself
without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos..
~ H.L. Mencken ~
I am now quite sure that 'Tragedy and Hope' was suppressed although I do not know why or by whom. ~ Carroll Quigley
