At last, a snappy and comprehensive putdown of 'political correctness', which, according to the Intelligence Report article, has mutated into an entirely-hallucinated bogeyman, paraded by American white-supremacists under the name of "cultural Marxism." Yes, really.

The familiar knee-jerk charge of "political correctness," of which a less malignant example can be found here, is of course only conceivable by willfully ignoring the balance of power in a society. After all, no one likes to be reminded that they are, in fact, The Man, and not the rebel-alliance automatically-lovable underdog. Using the slogan "politically incorrect," it's easy for anyone in the majority to cast themselves as the lovable rebel. (And it looks great on T-shirts, of course.)

It is interesting that it's difficult to popularize the point that political in/correctness is the perfect cover for creeping racism, as the article points out is already happening.

(via catching up on Orcinus, whose essay Rush, Newspeak and Fascism is a more in-depth treatment of many related problems)