Political Correctness Evolving as a Reaction to the Right

Political Correctness is all the rage at the moment. There is no shortage of people combining to rant against it. Yet, is political correctness not the invention of its own opposition?

We were not told to be politically correct, it came with acceptance of a growing and diverse community made up of many races and sexualities. It makes sense then that in this community we don’t use derogatory names for our neighbours. It is only polite, and makes sense.

But then we have those who are so engrained in their views that they have to find some way to win us back 15 years of progress. Lets make acceptance ‘politically correct’, let’s make political correctness unfashionable. Lets actively incite the hatred, which was actually beginning to fade into acceptance.

I am a fan of freedom of speech and freedom of expression, but why should we allow our expressions to help reverse the many gains made. The anti-everything lobby try to convince us that political correctness is eroding our rights, but really it is that lobby which is seeking to erode the rights.

In many ways ‘PC’ has gone mad, I won’t deny that. Call me a conspiracy theorist (if that is politically correct), but in some ways it’s actually the right wing that has sent it mad.

Acceptance was maturing nicely in our society, as you should expect it to – until they begin to preach against it, calling it political correctness and demonising it. So people think they should be politically correct.

Insert Control Spiral Here.