"Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." - Voltaire
CNN's Ali Velshi has been nominated for the Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf Award. The former Iraqi Minister of Information sometimes referred to as Baghdad Bob.
CNN reporter Omar Jiminez reports above a chyron reading "Fiery but mostly peaceful protests after police shooting."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjBpOWmwoNY
Ali Velshi - "I want to be clear on how I characterize this. This is a mostly a protest. It is not generally speaking unruly."
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, nor 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 to co-operate with evil, and 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.
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