Political correctness 101 - What is political correctness?



OK, let it be said here that political correctness (PC) is in my humble opinion the root of innumerable problems in western culture. Its gnarled fingers reach towards some of our most respected institutions such as the police force, the army and universities. It is the primary form of brainwashing and the dominant ideology in Britain today.

It is also so immensely flawed. The video sums it up.

For an in-depth read on political correctness. Buy this book:

The Retreat of Reason: Political Correctness and the Corruption of Public Debate in Modern Britain.
 The Retreat of Reason: Political Correctness and the Corruption of Public Debate in Modern Britain
Posted on: Saturday, May 10, 2008 11:50 PM
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The umbrella in particular is remembered as the symbol of the nineteenth century’s disturbing obsession with individualism. In Bellamy’s utopia, umbrellas have been replaced with retractable canopies so that everyone is protected from the rain equally.
“In the nineteenth century,” explains a character, “when it rained, the people of Boston put up three hundred thousand umbrellas over as many heads, and in the twentieth century they put up one umbrella over all the heads.”