Political Correctness Is a Tool for Socialist Censorship and Thought Control

A police officer stands guard at the site of the New Year’s Eve stampede in Shanghai, on Jan. 3, 2015. Shanghai authorities have tightened censorship over the incident by blocking online criticism, summoning internet users, and suppressing the press. Wang Zhao/AFP/Getty Images

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In the novel “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” part of the dystopian government that George Orwell imagined was its use of the language of “Newspeak,” a simplification of the English language to serve the needs of the state. Newspeak altered thoughts, so that people were rendered incapable of thinking outside Party lines.