Thumper was the rabbit
in the 1942 cartoon movie “Bambi”. His famous line, “If you can’t say anything
nice, you shouldn’t say anything at all” launched political correctness as a
religion.
Parents were
diligently trying to teach their children to be polite and I’m sure this
harmless line in a cartoon movie was never seen as malevolent, but it was. There was no character in Bambi who said “If
it isn’t true, it isn’t worth saying”.
In 1942, governments
were busy manipulating their populations to jump on the bandwagon to win the
war. Part of that was the work done by Psychologists looking to fine-tune
strategies to manipulate the public. They moved on after 1945 to bring their
schemes to advertising agencies and media companies. They were followers of BF
Skinner who introduced “operant conditioning”.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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