Power play ...

... The Left's Totalitarian List. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... the ‘reasoning’ has a certain, deeply totalitarian worldview behind it. That worldview is the following: that human life, in order to become whole and completely without hypocrisy, should be an open book, that there should be no distinction between the public sphere and the private. The nearest analogy I can think of is the cult of little Pavlik Morozov in the Soviet Union, who underwent Stalinist canonisation for having betrayed his parents to the authorities for being ‘kulaks.’ This was the version of ‘telling the truth’ that the Soviet authorities tried to instil in children until very late in the Soviet Union’s day; it is the version of the denouncer, the informer, the snitch. It is also infinitely horrible, for it destroys, as it is intended to destroy, all human trust, to the benefit of the propagation of an ideology.