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Political Correctness says that we ought to do, say, and think certain things simply because “the powers that be” say so. The big shots, the people who are supposedly in-the-know, determine the parameters for civil discourse and human behavior.

But, besides the fact is that such a perspective smacks of elitism, despite the reality that it bypasses the pathways by which any good is properly discovered and promulgated, political correctness doesn’t actually effect the change it demands.

Political correctness gives certain individuals and groups a false sense of accomplishment (“Look what we did for society!”), but it does so in ways that actually violate our humanity, derailing reasonable discussion and debate. As a result, politically correct views fail to resonate with any thinking and caring people.

I would submit, therefore, that political correctness is bad for us and for civilization in general, for it fails to comprehend that there is something far more honorable that coercing others to conform, far more substantive than the intellectual snobbery that gives rise to arbitrary assertions, and far more life-altering than the force-fed views of self-proclaimed do-gooders. That something is truth.

You see, our greatest aspirations are buoyed and realized not by the commands of politically correct advocates but by the determination of all of us to locate and embody truth. Of course if there is no truth, then all of our works and claims are irrelevant at best. But if truth does exist, hope remains. Only truth can strike a cord with human beings, made in the image of the one described as the truth. While political correctness ignores or stifles this divinely planted impulse, it is the truth that sets us free.