Virtue in a Jack-Boot: Anthony Browne on Political Correctness
Source: eurocanadian.ca
Anthony Browne’s The Retreat of Reason: Political correctness and the corruption of public debate in modern Britain is just one of a long litany of books written about the scourge of left-wing McCarthyism that has seized control of every important institution in the Anglophone world. Nevertheless the subject is of such critical importance that it deserves re-iteration and Browne’s polemic is argued concisely and persuasively. While his examples are primarily British, Canadians, Australians and Americans will quickly identify with the malaise he describes.Political correctness has been defined as a neo-puritanism that attempts to save souls through language, an Orwellian quest to eliminate thoughts by prohibiting certain words, a cultural Marxism that challenges prevailing culture and power. For Browne it is simply- an ideology that classifies certain groups of people as victims in need of protection from criticism, and which makes believers feel that no dissent should be tolerated…There are few as intolerant as those who preach tolerance…people who transgress politically correct beliefs are not seen just as wrong, to be debated with, but evil, to be condemned, silenced and spurned…Political Correctness is the dictatorship of virtue.Browne itemizes sixteen hallmarks of PC: Guilt by association, ad hominem attacks, support of censorship, according high status to victim-hood, taking offence, lack of humour, etc. Some deserve emphasis. Liberal guilt:
- The combination of Western guilt and fear of racism has all but killed off the public concern about overpopulation in the last few decades. In the US, when population growth was caused by white people having too many babies, the country’s largest environment group, the Sierra Club, campaigned to control population. But now that USpopulation growth is mainly caused by immigration, it has dropped all policies on population, and indeed its funding is dependent on never trying to tackle the immigration issue.And of course, double standards. Ever wonder why it is illegal now in many jurisdictions to publish crime figures broken down by the ethnicity of the offender but racial data is collected by colleges for admissions and hiring processes that promote visible minorities? Or that “gender profiling by police forces that targets men is perfectly acceptable, while racial profiling which targets blacks is not?”Browne observes that PC has fuelled a huge industry of charities and pressure groups that promote the PC world-view with no opposition, are fed by public taxes and are given endless uncritical air-time by the BBC. Migration Watch, on the other hand, which campaigns for less immigration to Britain, a position that has 80% public support, enjoys no taxpayer money and “is almost totally blackballed by the BBC.” Those groups whose policy aims might call for a politically incorrect solution usually shelve it.[...]Read the full article at: eurocanadian.ca
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