Mark Steyn reminds us how much George Orwell got right about todays America in his book 1984. He defined political correctness in advance but called it Crimestop Crimestop means the faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought. It includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are inimical, and of being bored and repelled by any train of thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction. Crimestop, in short, means protective stupidity.
Posted on: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 17:52:40 +0000
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