From The Telegraph:
🔴Ballet has been dropped from auditions at leading dance schools because it is rooted in “white European ideas” https://t.co/vutlRnKRDV
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) July 16, 2022
Bringing to mind the quote attributed to Voltaire:
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
Although, as Quote Investigator reports:
....Quote Investigator: Researchers have been unable to find an exact match for any of these statements in the works of Voltaire. There is a partial match using the word “unjust” instead of “atrocities”. Here is the original French statement followed by three possible translations:[1]
1765: Certainement qui est en droit de vous rendre absurde, est en droit de vous rendre injuste
Translation 01: Certainly, whoever has the right to make you absurd has the right to make you unjust
Translation 02: Truly, whoever can make you look absurd can make you act unjustly
Translation 03: Certainly anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices
The line above appeared within letter number eleven published in 1765 in Voltaire’s work “Collection des Lettres sur les Miracles” (“Collection of Letters on Miracles”). A larger excerpt appears further below.
Pertinent matches in English using the word “atrocities” began to appear by 1914. Voltaire usually received credit for these sayings, and they form a natural family although the precise phrasings and meanings vary. The following overview with dates shows the evolution:...
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Related: Saturday's "Following On Our Marxist Economist, Here's A Quote From A Crypto-Fascist " and embedded links:
Nah I lied, he's not a crypto-fascist, he's conservative in the way that being a British prison doctor and psychiatrist would tend to make you conservative.
And it's not that kind of crypto.
Here's the quote via Goodreads:
“Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.”― Anthony Malcolm Daniels, M.D. (pen name:
And back to the Telegraph tweet. a couple of the comments:
So just Drunken Twerking then?
— Royal Paine (@TheRoyalePain) July 16, 2022
