censorship

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British

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lexicographer

linguist

is a by-product of fear, which stems not from some positive agenda, but from the desire to escape our own terrors and superstitions by imposing them on others.

The populist authoritarianism that is the downside of political correctness means that anyone, sometimes it seems like everyone, can proclaim their grief and have it acknowledged. The victim culture, every sufferer grasping for their own Holocaust, ensures that anyone who feels offended can call for moderation, for dilution, and in the end, as is all too often the case, for censorship. And censorship, that by-product of fear - stemming as it does not from some positive agenda, but from the desire to escape our own terrors and superstitions by imposing them on others - must surely be resisted. - Jonathon Green, 'Did You Say 'Offensive''' (wordwizard.com)

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