Comments on: Defining Political Correctness is Tantamount to Destroying It https://www.isegoria.net/2011/11/defining-political-correctness-is-tantamount-to-destroying-it/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Wed, 15 Jul 2026 20:16:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Bruce Charlton https://www.isegoria.net/2011/11/defining-political-correctness-is-tantamount-to-destroying-it/comment-page-1/#comment-382964 Bruce Charlton Mon, 21 Nov 2011 10:52:02 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=27265#comment-382964 Yes, defining and understanding PC does indeed destroy it. But I don’t think political correctness needs that to destroy it. to understand PC is to know it will destroy itself; however, the longer it lasts the more damage it will do — damage to human souls, I mean.

The problem with PC is not that it will destroy peace, prosperity and comfort — although it will indeed do that. So will many other forces.

The problem is that PC is evil — inherently and literally evil in the sense of actively destructive of The Good: destructive of Truth, Beauty and Virtue.

If you do not believe in evil — or transcendental Goods — then there really are no objective grounds for opposing PC. It would be more expedient to go along with it and make the best you can from it — which is of course what the intellectual elites have done en masse, since they do not believe in evil.

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