# Political correctness - allowing China to dictate what we (Western nations) do or say.

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**Created:** [October 8, 2019, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-correctness-allowing-china-to-dictate-what-we-western-nations-do-or-say/841478 "2019-10-08T15:21:59Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 8, 2019, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-correctness-allowing-china-to-dictate-what-we-western-nations-do-or-say/841478/17 "2019-10-08T16:10:30Z")

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> [@BobLibDem](#):
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> Nothing to do with PC. PC is what conservatives condemn when told not to disparage people who differ from them. This is a dictatorship trying to censor criticism of itself in what used to be a beacon of freedom.

PC is thought control using mob violence, physical or economic, as the enforcement tool.

What China is doing is called consequences. Should China behave in that fashion? I don’t think we in the west could say otherwise without being hypocritical.

It does anger me that we kowtow to them though.

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