Political Correctness gone mad!

Uber-blogger David Farrer has started a debate on Political Correctness by giving ten examples.

Now, I've always thought that Political Correctness is the modification of thought or speech to ensure conformity to an unquestionable orthodoxy. (Or more simply, not being able to say what you think as it is against the prevailing view.) My favourite example of 'Political Correctness' has to be the Treaty debate. What I have never understood is when revisionist 'experts' claim that the Treaty was used to rip off Maori in one breath, then demand that the same document guarantees special rights to Maori in the next.

Of course, to question their wisdom is to be labelled a racist. Rosa Parks questioned the prevailing wisdom, too - and look where that led.