Merry WinterLight-Festival! No Limits on PC madness?

**Fragony** · 11-04-2008, 09:09

Interesting perspective;

Originally Posted by Dr. Theodore Dalrymple

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.

Dr. Theodore Dalrymple, a contributing editor to City Journal and the author of the collection of essays "Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses" in an interview with Jamie Glazov for FrontPageMagazine.com published on Wednesday, August 31, 2005.

Excerpt at link

**CountArach** · 11-04-2008, 11:11

Originally Posted by Fragony

Interesting perspective;

Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small.

I click on this thread and this is what I see. Fragony - you never fail to amuse me. You are indeed the best satirist ever.

**Fragony** · 11-04-2008, 11:28

Originally Posted by CountArach

I click on this thread and this is what I see. Fragony - you never fail to amuse me. You are indeed the best satirist ever.

Not my words but Theodore Dalrymple's, english psychiatrist who has studied the condition.

**KukriKhan** · 11-04-2008, 13:39

I draw everyone's attention to our new Backroom Rules Sticky, recently written by Banquo'sGhost.

I quote, in part:

Please respect copyright. All external sources should be given due attribution and a link provided to the original source. An article should not be posted in its entirety, but selections placed in indents, ex or spoiler tags and linked. Presenting original sources as your own is frowned on and you will be found out.

**Tribesman** · 11-04-2008, 14:58

Nice link Frag , so you get your material from a fundamentalist website that got it from a con job website run by a conspiracy nut whose list of journalistic staff reads like a whos who of the friutcake club .

**Fragony** · 11-04-2008, 15:08

Originally Posted by Tribesman

Nice link Frag , so you get your material from a fundamentalist website that got it from a con job website run by a conspiracy nut whose list of journalistic staff reads like a whos who of the friutcake club .

What link didn't post any link must be the link you made yourself when it was me posting, the power of assumption must have taken over your senses tricking your mind into seeing things that aren't there, or did you really, actually, mean google?

**Tribesman** · 11-04-2008, 15:16

What link didn't post any link must be the link you made yourself when it was me posting, the power of assumption must have taken over your senses tricking your mind into seeing things that aren't there

Ah it must have been Kukri that added the link to your post , I suppose he must have googled the most popular source of crap for your material
Really Kukri thats not very nice linking Frags piece to a loony tunes website

**KukriKhan** · 11-04-2008, 15:21

I had help in finding the online version of that quote. It being a quote of a quote, of a quote, I also provided the original source ("Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses") - all this to bring Mister Fragony's post into compliance with Backroom Rules.

Attribution. It's not just for breakfast anymore.

**Fragony** · 11-04-2008, 15:22

Originally Posted by Tribesman

Ah it must have been Kukri that added the link to your post , I suppose he must have googled the most popular source of crap for your material
Really Kukri thats not very nice linking Frags piece to a loony tunes website

Well I sure as hell didn't, never heard of these guys.

**LittleGrizzly** · 11-04-2008, 15:29

kurki's link, on frags post doesn't work for me ?

**KukriKhan** · 11-04-2008, 15:37

Originally Posted by Fragony

Well I sure as hell didn't, never heard of these guys.

If you had given due attribution, and a link, and set off your quote as a quote, as you are supposed to do so that readers didn't falsely believe that YOU wrote that material (even though I give you credit for 2 hours later, in a separate post, finally naming the actual author), we wouldn't have this confusion.

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This was supposed to be a brief, teachable moment on posting etiquette, that has instead derailed the thread. My apologies for my part in that.