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. Reading and writing are considered essential to this training.