Why Progressives Must Fight Political Correctness
Progressivism is a movement climbing a real mountain, but it isn’t helped by political correctness — and nor are people’s lives.
By now we’re all well acquainted with the cries of anguish from the far-right as a result of political correctness, which they attack as a disguise for their real agenda against progressive and forward-looking politics. Indeed, this filters through to the general population, and many people with no real agenda complain of “political correctness gone mad”.
I have to say, they’ve got a point about it going mad.
Political correctness didn’t come out of nothing. It came to be due to liberal politicians and progressives, who placed far too much value on language and far too little on actions. They thought, many years ago, that rhetoric and a culture change would shock society into more progressive ideologies.
How wrong they were.
Still today, politicians use political correctness and rhetoric as a veil for their inaction on key issues, such as improving the rights of women and minorities, solving the problems plaguing poor and minority communities, and building a fairer society, built upon the principle of equal opportunity.
