I may be politically correct - but I am fed up with self-righteous wokeness

I have always been proudly politically correct. I associate this with the simple act of politeness. I treat people equally and with respect. I don’t knowingly use terms I know are hurtful to minority groups. I work to try and address my own prejudices and those built into systems where I have the power or influence to make changes.

I was always deeply frustrated with the caricature some on the right perpetuated of political correctness as anything other than this. Sadly, others seem to have adopted that caricature wholesale in the morphing of political correctness into being woke. Perhaps the right’s latest triumph is to finally manage to define the left’s approach to equalities as they have always wanted it to appear – and for the left to believe them.

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