JOHN CLEESE: POLITICAL CORRECTNESS WILL LEAD TO AN ORWELLIAN NIGHTMARE
The very essence of his trade — comedy — is criticism
John Cleese says political correctness has gone too far, especially on America’s college campuses, where he will no longer go to perform. As BigThink reports, the very essence of his trade — comedy — is criticism and that not infrequently means hurt feelings. But protecting everyone from negative emotion all the time is not only impractical (one can’t control the feelings of another), but also improper in a free society.
Cleese, having worked with psychiatrist Robin Skynner,says there may even be something more sinister behind the insistence to be always be politically correct.
“If you start to say we mustn’t, we mustn’t criticize or offend them then humor is gone. With humor goes a sense of proportion. And then as far as I’m concerned you’re living in 1984.”
George Carlin - Political Correctness is fascism pretending to be Manners
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FORMER INTELLIGENCE ANALYST: POLITICAL CORRECTNESS IS A MANIPULATIVE TOOL FOR CENTRALIZING POWER
“If you push an agenda to centralize power, you need mass ignorance and effective propaganda.”
If you say the “wrong thing” in America today, you could be penalized, fired or even taken to court.
Political correctness is running rampant, and it is absolutely destroying this nation.
In his novel 1984, George Orwell imagined a future world where speech was greatly restricted. He called that the language that the totalitarian state in his novel created “Newspeak”, and it bears a striking resemblance to the political correctness that we see in America right now.
According to Wikipedia, Newspeak is “a reduced language created by the totalitarian state as a tool to limit free thought, and concepts that pose a threat to the regime such as freedom, self-expression, individuality, peace, etc. Any form of thought alternative to the party’s construct is classified as ‘thoughtcrime."
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