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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)

is a peculiar evil in that it robs both those who dissent from the opinion (it steals from them the possibility to reveal that the censored view is the correct view to hold), and still more from those who hold the view of the censor (because they sacrifice the lively impression of truth produced by its collision with error).

The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race... posterity as well as the existing generation... those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. - John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859

is always a sign of weakness, not strength, in those who enforce it.

always a sign of weakness, not strength, in those who enforce it.

is always self-sabotaging, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.

The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion. - Henry Steele Commager

is contrary to the right of every human being to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him.

Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men... a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man! - Thomas Carlyle

is defending the tinsel world of the soap opera and the low-'grade movie against the adult competition that continually threatens to shatter it.

defending the tinsel world of the soap opera and the low-'grade movie against the adult competition that continually threatens to shatter it.

is itself the only real offense that ought to be censored.

is like an appendix. When it is inert it is useless... when active it is extremely dangerous.

Censorship is like an appendix. When it is inert it is useless... when active it is extremely dangerous

censorship, n.All

censorship