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, nor 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 to co-operate with evil, and 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.
Two firefighters and a Spanish woman have died in a massive explosion caused by a "pocket of gas" in a six-storey building in Paris.
The woman died in hospital and at least 46 others were said to be injured, nine of them critically, including a third firefighter, in the blast in the 9th arrondissement of the capital on Saturday morning.
One of the firefighters was trapped under the rubble of the destroyed building for two-and-a-half hours before being rescued by colleagues."At 8.37am the fire brigade was called to 6 Rue Trévise to investigate a gas leak. While they were there a dramatic explosion occurred," Castaner said. He praised the courage of the firefighters who risked their lives to save people. He said one firefighter had remained under the rubble for two and a half hours before being rescued by colleagues.© Carl Labrosse/Agence France-Presse/Getty ImagesAn overhead view shows debris and vehicle wreckage following the explosion.
Rémy Heitz, the Paris public prosecutor, said an investigation had been launched into the tragedy. The origin of the explosion was a "pocket of gas". He added that the tragedy appeared to be "accidental" but that police experts would verify the exact reason for the explosion.
The blast and subsequent fire destroyed a bakery on the ground floor and destroyed apartments above. It seriously damaged several neighbouring buildings and shattered windows for 100 metres around.
The explosion, which happened just before 9am, was heard a mile away. Dozens of firefighters, police and ambulances rushed to the scene and rapidly sealed off surrounding streets, many of them cloaked in a thick cloud of acrid smoke.
The bakery owner, Hubert Beatrix, watched shocked as dozens of firefighters struggled to put out the blaze and evacuate residents of nearby buildings.
"I have no idea what happened. There's no gas in my shop apart from a small supply for heating. My ovens are electric," Beatrix said. "The shop was closed, luckily for me and my customers. Someone called me to tell me about this, but I still don't know what happened."
The bakery was almost entirely destroyed, leaving a few columns holding up the rest of the six-storey building.
The nearby Place de l'Opera was cleared to allow three emergency helicopters to land in order to evacuate injured people.
Hundreds of Transportation Security Administration officers, who are required to work without paychecks through the partial government shutdown, have called out from work this week from at least four major airports...TSA spokespeople, meanwhile, insist everything is completely normal although absenteeism has "increased by 200% to 300%," according to Marketwatch.
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