Political correctness is not a ‘liberal conspiracy’

To contribute to the ongoing debate: I have no regard for that currency of the gullible, political correctness (PC) and consider it to be little more than an intellectual straitjacket that attempts to, as JC Wilcox correctly states, “[suppress] freedom of expression and original thought”. Many of us know that it’s not easy at all to express totally original thought, and that the overwhelming majority of the human race follow prescribed thought patterns that are repeated over and over, ad infinitum. A bit like wilfully proliferating rubbish about religious plots to take over the world, in fact. That said, I agree in principle with what Mr Wilcox says about PC. However, the salient question is, to what purpose is the debate directed?
Consequently, I disagree with Wilcox’s obtusely related thesis that liberalism is “flawed” (in part due to PC in this instance), a nonsensical mantra he repeats over and over, doubtless in the earnest hope that people will eventually believe it.
Eric Bahrt also has his issues, like all of us, but he is correct in identifying context as a key component in the perennial PC discourse, and that Mr Wilcox’s obsession with “Liberal” conspiracies and of course the usual balderdash about creeping Islamofascism is pertinent here. PC is, of course, his latest Trojan horse to that end. Making such formulaic sweeping assertions without evidence is a common enough tactic, littered with non sequiturs that logically end up in a cerebral cul-de-sac.
Finally, and to return briefly to the exclusively PC discussion, as a former academic I had a number 
of arguments (in the scholarly sense) with former colleagues about this, and took them to task for buying into this Orwellian ordure. In that, Mr Wilcox and I are in agreement.
Dr Frank
Bangkok