Reacting to the latest in the Herman Cain melodrama today, Rush Limbaugh lamented that political correctness ‘has now spread to behavior — not just speech.”
I think that’s probably awesome enough to speak for itself. But this is just a very funny thing to say. The issue with ‘political correctness’, to the extent it’s reasonable, and I think some of it is, is that speech is a protected thing in our society. So there’s a necessary tension necessarily at play. But I think we’ve always been pretty down with the idea that you can’t just take any action you want, right? I don’t like you. So I bonk you on the head. But don’t come at me with your anti-bonking ‘political correctness’! Trying to control who I am, man!
