It's Political Correctness Gone Mad, Gone Mad I Tell Ya!
Male, pale and stale right-wing politicians ranting about the evils of political correctness as if it is somehow a bad thing is so tedious. There is a habit among the right to excuse any identification and condemnation of bigoted behaviour as yet another example of political correctness gone mad. Of course, the ‘accusation’ tends to come from those who have either forgotten, or never noticed, due to their position of privilege, how absolutely rotten the wider community can be to live and work in for everyone else. Any challenge at all to the predominantly male, predominantly white, privilege construct and the cry is immediate. It is political correctness gone mad, they say. Much easier to write off the challenge to their behaviour than to look at the underlying cause of their sexism, or nativism, or racism, or homophobia etc etc
Fundamentally, calling someone PC is just another way the dissemblers try to shut down the conversation. Individuals who are at odds with the bigoted, are often called politically correct by those who resent people who not only disagree with their bigoted stance but who also attempt to put pressure on said bigot to re-examine his or her conduct. Political Correctness exists for a reason and they hate it because it challenges their privilege. Behaviours have the ability to impact in either a positive or negative way, and if we are to stop systematic abuse of privilege then a framework of acceptable non-discriminatory practice is essential. However, let’s face it, political correctness within a formalised construct of institutionalised discrimination is not what generally gets the goat of the bigot, when they sneer that you are just being PC they are pissed because you have called them out personally on their bigotry.
Bigots abound, but very few of them will admit to it. They try to sell the narrative that they are the victim when people refuse to allow then to get away with their bigoted behaviour. They are warriors against a culture of political correctness gone mad. To the bigot having the audacity to call them out is way worse than their actual bigoted behaviours. They absolutely, positively and definitively hate being challenged for their bigotry. We are all witness to the ongoing and fundamentally futile attempt by these bigots to try and prove they are not bigots. Which is impossible, because they are in fact bigots. Was that politically incorrect of me?
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