Retreat From Reason V

'Because the politically correct believe they are not just
on the side of right, but of virtue, it follows that those they
are opposed to are not just wrong, but malign. In the PC
mind, the pursuit of virtue entitles them to curtail the
malign views of those they disagree with. Rather than say
I would like to hear your side, the politically correct insist:
'you can't say that'.
Believing that their opponents are not just wrong but
bad, the politically correct feel free to resort to personal
attacks on them. If there is no explicit bad motive, then the
PC can accuse their opponents of a sinister ulterior
motive-the unanswerable accusations of 'isms'. It is this
self-righteous sense of virtue that makes the PC believe
they are justified in suppressing freedom of speech.
Political correctness is the dictatorship of virtue.
The end result is that the politically correct build
impregnable castles around their beliefs, which means,
like royalty, never having to justify and never having to
apologise.'



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From: 'The Retreat From Reason:
Political Correctness and the Corruption of Public Debate in Modern Britain'
by Anthony Browne