[D66] Policor in the usa

[R.O.]

https://theintercept.com/2020/07/18/political-correctness-destroying-america/


America today faces a terrifying danger: political correctness. It is an 
existential threat not just to the United States, but all of human 
civilization.

By this, obviously, I mean right-wing political correctness.

Maybe you’re surprised to hear this. In the U.S. media, there’s no 
shortage of lamentations about political correctness and how it chills 
debate — but they’re almost always about the threat of left-wing PC.

In reality, political correctness, or cancel culture, or whatever it’s 
called, is not a phenomenon of the left, right, or center. It’s a 
phenomenon of human nature. All humanity’s infinite tribes are prone to 
groupthink and punishing heretics. That’s why the principle of free 
thought has to be defended: It is, unfortunately, a weird and unnatural 
fit for humans.

There absolutely are examples of ugly political correctness from the 
U.S. “left,” whatever that means in a country that, by historical 
standards, doesn’t have a left. But the vast, vast majority of political 
correctness in America is conservative. Conservative PC is so powerful 
in the U.S. that much of it is adopted by both political parties and all 
of the corporate media. Indeed, right-wing political correctness is so 
dominant that it’s politically incorrect to refer to it as political 
correctness. Instead, we call it things like “patriotism,” or simply 
don’t notice its existence.

A full examination of America’s conservative PC culture would take the 
rest of your life to read. So let’s limit this to four areas where the 
right’s PC causes some of the most harm: religion, foreign policy, the 
Republican Party, and police.

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