Citat - Om begreppet 'politisk korrekthet'

'Politically correct'
is a dismissive accusation
that only makes sense
if it is opposed
to a superior alternative

Presumably
what is wrong about
'political correctness'
is that its judgements of right and wrong
are made from an angle
from a site of interest
from a position
coloured by
partisan desires

The trouble however
is that no human being
sees truth directly
stands to the side of interest
sees by more than partisan lights

'Political correctness'
is simply a pejorative term
for the condition of operating
on the basis of a partial vision
and since that is the condition of all of us
we are all politically correct

Political correctness
- the practice of making judgements
from the vantage points
of challengeable convictions -
is not the name of a deviant behaviour
but of the behaviour that everyone
necessarily practices

Debates between opposing parties
can never be characterized
as debates between
'political correctness' and something else
but as debates between completing versions
of political correctness

ur: Stanley Fish (1994) There is no such thing as free speech and its a good thing too s. 9- 79