Politically Correct "Art"

(The dictionary of "correct" PC propaganda terms)

"Art" Films Pack
Ideological Sucker Punch

By Henry Makow Ph.D.

1-19-8

In the old Soviet Union, art was considered a branch of propaganda. If a novel or movie wasn't "politically correct," it wouldn't be seen. The idea that art should reveal transcendent truths was out-of-the-question. I am noticing the same trend in the West where the Communist era term "politically correct" is now in common usage. Last week, I saw "The Kite Runner" a story set mainly in Afghanistan about a friendship between two boys and how, in the course of a lifetime, one learns moral courage. The film upheld human values and moved me to tears in a couple of places. I found myself wondering, "How did this movie get wide-release?" The answer wasn't long in coming. The hero returns to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan to rescue his friend's son from an orphanage. The Taliban are portrayed in the worst possible light, as religious fanatics who stone women and sodomize children. Without realizing it, the theater audience will assume that Muslim fundamentalism is a scourge, and the "war of civilizations" is justified. No mention here of how, with US aid, the Taliban actually liberated Afghanistan from Soviet oppression and stamped out the heroin trade. No, yesterday's "freedom fighters" are today's "terrorists." See "The Taliban are Terrorists"

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