The Menace of Political Correctness

The Menace of Political Correctness
"Political correctness started out as a minor project of the international firm known as the Good Intentions Paving Company. 
What, after all, could be better intended than insisting that denigrating ethnic names (“polak,” “kike,” “spic,” “wop,” and worse) and language debasing women be debarred from public discourse and put out of bounds in civilized private conversation? 
Nothing, surely. 
But political correctness soon came to be about much more than social decorum. 
As with so many projects of the Good Intentions Paving Company, things haven’t worked out quite as planned.
Lashed up as it soon became with the campaign for a misguided equalizing in all American institutions, political correctness took a large leap forward in its ambitions. 
Criticism of any action or attempt to bring equality soon became, ipso facto, politically incorrect. Affirmative action—the rigging of admissions requirements at the country’s most prestigious universities in favor of what were deemed oppressed minority groups—was an early gambit in the campaign for equal outcomes and a boost, too, for political correctness. 
Criticizing affirmative action carried with it the penalty of being thought racist..."
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