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- The concept that one has to shape their statements (if not their opinions) according to a certain political dogma.
#:2002 I mean, people who talk about political correctness as being a kind of thought police have no idea of what a thought police is. But political correctness does have the same mentality. It means that intellectual argument is doomed. Objective truth simply becomes a thing to jeer at, because obviously there's no such thing as objectivity�unless of course you're politically okay, in which case you can be objective. Any child can see through that, but many adults can't. � Christopher Hitchens, The Atlantic
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