Chapter 23 by James Garside

Chapter 23 by James Garside

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Chapter 23 by James Garside
Chapter 23 - There’s Nothing Correct About Political Correctness

Chapter 23 - There’s Nothing Correct About Political Correctness

But it is political

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Jul 29, 2024
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“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.” ― Philip K. Dick

Freedom of speech means nothing without freedom of thought. I read it on a t-shirt so it must be true.

The moral majority is neither of those things

Have you ever noticed how the ‘moral majority’ isn’t moral and there’s more of us than them?

How friendly fire isn’t friendly?

And how there’s nothing correct about political correctness?

…Sorry, wrong meeting.

I subscribe to the ‘Sooty and Sweep’ theory of politics: regardless of which puppet you prefer they’ve all got someone’s hand up their arse.

When I say ‘subscribe to’ I mean ‘invented.’

Political Correctness is an oxymoron

Political Correctness is an oxymoron.

Political.

Correctness.

These are two words that should never go together.

Liars and master manipulators shouldn’t get to decide what words we can and cannot use.

They won’t e…

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