An unusual article in today's Observer in which writer Julie Burchill makes a defiant defence of her "brilliant" friend the writer Suzanne Moore who has been accused of defaming a minority group.
Julie Burchill is now herself on the receiving end of hysterical invective (as she must have known she would be).
Well now they know what it is like.
For approximately twenty years the left has used the bogus cod ideology of political correctness to silence debate and shut up opponents. Over this time offenders against political correctness have been denounced in ever-nastier and dehumanising terms so that people are damaged, careers are ended, whole categories of people are negated as "nasty" and unworthy even of life (I am not exaggerating). The fact that political correctness is nothing more than censorship is irrelevant to the perpetrators.
To understand why you should realise that socialism cares nothing for individuals. The collective is everything, and ordinary people are mere economic units within a predictable theory of society. The eternal soul is dismissed as an opiate fairy-story and human personality is simply a bourgeois invention.
This is what these people are like.
This is why they must never get back in.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/13/julie-burchill-suzanne-moore-transsexuals
Update 14th January - Suzanne Moore writes an article about her previous article, but without once mentioning Julie Burchill.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/09/dont-care-if-born-woman
Those who live by political correctness shall die by political correctness, to paraphrase the old saying.
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