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“Nobody is capable of of free speech unless he knows how to use language, and such knowledge is not a gift: it has to learned and worked at. [p.93]”
― The Educated Imagination
― The Educated Imagination
“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.”
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“He does not despise real woods because he has read of enchanted woods; the reading makes all real woods a little enchanted.”
― On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
― On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
“People who worry about microaggressions usually have never faced macroaggressions.”
― Speechless: Controlling Words, Controlling Minds
― Speechless: Controlling Words, Controlling Minds
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