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Political Correctness: the new Dictate

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007

by Michel Cruz

Political Correctness: the new Dictate

Every age has its taboos and holy grails. Even in this supposedly open age of free expression in which there are no more taboos, we have been unable to shake the shackles of censorship. No sooner had we freed ourselves from centuries of social, sexual and political restraint, imposed upon us by Church, state and class alike, than we set about creating new taboos and the gagging orders that come with them. Have the ‘liberators’ become the oppressors? (more…)