Arguments about race, ethnicity, sex, the attack on the canon of literature, and the supposed evils of Eurocentrism are increasingly germane to Britain, whose cultural homogeneity is under threat from various single-issue groups. Amid this cultural fragmentation British English cannot remain unscathed. Words are harbingers of change, and much of today's rapid change reflects the stunning success of American-led technological innovation. But, where progress is nurtured by the wider grasp and usage of new scientific and technical language, the vocabulary of PC freezes debate, criticism, and constructive change. Sheltered from the buffeting of intellectual intercourse, a radical elite foists its loaded terminology into the language and, in the name of socio-economic justice, denies to others the right to challenge it.
Agreement is all that is permitted.
Fallacies exist in all political and philosophical systems. For the most part they are unintentional. PC, however, uses fallacy and jargon as a weapon. It is this insidious inversion of traditional intellectual discourse that makes PC so damaging. Western liberal education has traditionally sought to develop clear and precise thinking.