What You Can't Say - Kirjoitus leimaamisesta ja keskustelun tukahduttamisesta

[Pyry Aho]

Tällainen kirjoitus sattui eteen. Se on yksinkertaisesti nerokas, ja painonsa arvoinen kullassa (no joo, eiväthän nuo bitit toisaalta mitään paina) niille jotka jaksavat lukea ja osaavat englantia.

Tekstissä puhutaan keskustelun tukahduttamisesta, poliittisesta korrektiudesta, leimaamisesta, sekä se sisältää runsaasti historiallisia esimerkkejä samanlaisesta poliittisesta vaientamisesta ja leimaamisesta mitä maahanmuuttokriitikot ovat kohdanneet. Suosittelen lämpimästi kaikille.

Pari lainausta kiinnostuksen herättämiseksi:

No one gets in trouble for saying that 2 + 2 is 5, or that people in Pittsburgh are ten feet tall. Such obviously false statements might be treated as jokes, or at worst as evidence of insanity, but they are not likely to make anyone mad. The statements that make people mad are the ones they worry might be believed. I suspect the statements that make people maddest are those they worry might be true. --

The prohibition will be strongest when the group is nervous. The irony of Galileo's situation was that he got in trouble for repeating Copernicus's ideas. Copernicus himself didn't. In fact, Copernicus was a canon of a cathedral, and dedicated his book to the pope. But by Galileo's time the church was in the throes of the Counter-Reformation and was much more worried about unorthodox ideas. -- I suspect the biggest source of moral taboos will turn out to be power struggles in which one side only barely has the upper hand. That's where you'll find a group powerful enough to enforce taboos, but weak enough to need them.

http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html