Political Correctness

The tyranny of “PC culture” is real — and a threat to liberal society

Shortly after the London Bridge terror attacks on June 3, prominent left-wing pundit Sally Kohn used the occasion to tweet a defense of political correctness:

Yet only a few days earlier, there had been a flurry of reports on a very different kind of political correctness. Bret Weinstein, a biology professor at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, had been subjected to vicious harassment for objecting to a Day of Absence, in which white people were asked to stay off campus for a day. Amid calls for his firing, Weinstein was surrounded and berated by student protesters and finally informed by the police that it was not safe for him to be on campus. There was very little dignity or respect in the way he and his supporters were treated.

So which is the real political correctness?

Kohn’s defense is certainly not new or unique. A couple of years ago, New Zealand programmer Byron Clark made the same point with a Google Chrome that converted the…