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The Politics of the Forked Tongue: Authoritarian Liberalism
 
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The Politics of the Forked Tongue: Authoritarian Liberalism (Paperback)

by Aidan Rankin (Author)
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  • Paperback: 175 pages
  • Publisher: New European Publications (Jan 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1872410162
  • ISBN-13: 978-1872410166
  • Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 13.8 x 1.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 734,158 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"The definitive study of a new threat to individual liberty and freedom of thought; far more insidious than previous threats because it is presented under the false banner of liberalism." Michael Gove, The Times. "Rankin cuts through with razor-sharp clarity the dishonest cant we call 'political correctness'. He provides a defence of freedom and tolerance that is both welcome and overdue." Zac Goldsmith, The Ecologist."

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'The Politics of the Forked Tongue' reveals how political correctness is being used to reinforce an authoritarian pseudo-liberalism. Women and ethnic minority groups are used to justify an order which could verge on fascism and shows little or no concern for people as people.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Some worrying aspects of PC., 10 April 2003
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This penetrating book is written from a traditional liberal perspective. It both explicates and laments the take-over of teritional liberalism by Psuedo-Liberals, people who use it to further their own ends. Liberalism is a freedom loving creed but the doctrine that is replacing it, Political Correctness, is essentially totalitarian. Rather than promote freedom of association, it regulates and restricts relationships. Whereas liberals believe there is a significant division between the public and private areas of our lives, the new liberals have a slogan,"the private is public." They want to poke in even our most intimate relationships and tell us how we should talk to each other and what we can or cannot say to each other.
Dr. Rankin, explains:"These politics were until recently associated with the "loony left" and so the butt of dry humour, have now become intellectual orthodoxies. Identity politics(which replaced economic beliefs with the far-left)has assumed increasing prominance in public life, at the same time as the left-wing world view is struggling for recognition. At a time when the idea of public ownership and public service is under attack, the nationalised race and sex discrimination bureaucracies expand and acquire new powers.
Traditional liberalism has an impoverished political vocabulary and a loss of will, which means it can no longer defend freedom against this rise in "Totalitarian" thought and practice.
While watch the statue of Saddam being pulled down in Bagdad and freedom and Democracy proclaimed our own freedom and our Democracy is being eaten away by Political correctness.
Dr. Rankin, alerts us to a hidden connection: "The underlying similarity between Political Correctness is that they are both based on a deterministic belief in "Progrees", both seek wholly materialistic solutions to human problems and both are "Internationalist" in the sense that they do not care for local custom or the differences between nations." As mrs. Thatcher famously said, "There is no such thing as society".
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5.0 out of 5 stars Opening up political correctness., 3 May 2003
This is a new look at a common subject. Rankin sheds light on this modern totalitarian movement and shows its links with globalisation.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A light into Plato's Cave., 12 Aug 2003
As Plato was the first authoritarian(Communist not tory, as some misguided people think) this excellent study of political correctness, exposes that sort of ideology constructed out of abstract ideas and theories and shows what happens when fanatics try to apply them to real people. This book was so very helpful to my Politics course, I have no hesitation in recommending it to others who wish to understand what is going on around them.
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