[Ramrod]

The promoters of political correctness have damaged exactly those they set out to help.....PC started as a counter-culture attack on the dominant conservative ideology in the 1960s but has now risen to become the dominant establishment ideology, and in doing so it has become a heresy of the liberalism it first espoused. Rather than tackling intolerance, it now promotes intolerance, brooking no criticism and denouncing any critics. PC has a vice-like grip on public debate and policy making, setting out what can and canââ‚Âà ‚¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚¢t be debated, and what the terms of the debate are: anything or anyone who digresses from the PC script is automatically controversial.....By condemning everyone who disagrees with them in the most extreme terms †â€ÂÂÂ� those isms †â€ÂÂÂ� the PC brigade have succeeded in making us a nervy nation, with most people anxious about what they say or think. This has fuelled politics of denial, with politicians preferring to stick their heads in the sand rather than tackle sensitive issues. And again, it is the vulnerable who end up suffering......

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