Found this at The Gatestone Institute, which Pirates Cove has linked to this morning. I would urge everyone to go read it, I fear it serves more as a fact than a theory. This is the essence of the Left, controlling the language is, I suppose as close to controlling thought as it gets. After all if certain ideas or opinions are never expressed, they will never be heard, or debated will they? In a matter of two or three generations, these ideas/thoughts/opinions will become more rare, and, in time, they will cease to exist at all. This is what the left wants.
For Americans who cherish free speech, this undeniable war on language and expression is jolting but not shocking. Whenever censorship slithers back into polite society, it is always draped in the mantle of “good intentions.” Fifteenth-century Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola’s “bonfire of the vanities” destroyed anything that could be seen to invite or reflect sin. The notorious 1933 Nazi book burning at the Bebelplatz in Berlin torched some 20,000 books deemed subversive or “un-German”. During Communist China’s decade-long Cultural Revolution in the 1960s and ’70s, the vast majority of China’s traditional scrolls, literature and religious antiquities went up in smoke.
All three atrocities were celebrated as achievements for the “greater good” of society, and people inebriated with “good intentions” set their cultural achievements aflame with fervor and triumph. Much like today’s new censors who claim to “fight hate” because “that’s not who we are,” the arsonists of the past saw themselves as moral paragons, too. They purged anything “obscene” or “traditional” or “old,” so that theocracy, Nazism, or communism could take root and grow. And if Western institutions today are purging ideas once again, then it is past time for people to start asking just what those institutions plan to harvest next.
Ah, the “Greater Good” Perhaps no words are more frightening to those who study history. Please go read this piece folks. This is what is coming for all of us. And only WE can stop it.