Letters

To the Editor:

In “The Children of Political Correctness” (Fall, 2019), H.S. Schwartz says that “political correctness has its roots in feminism.” But I think the problem originates in something much broader and deeper—the leveling effect of democracy, working in concert with human nature. The democratic spirit is being used for ill by the PC generation not so much to lift up and “render equal” the marginalized, but to bring down the powerful.

A person can feel a delicious sense of moral superiority in the leveling process, especially a young person. We now have a society (and in fact, a Democratic Party) dominated by loud, demanding women and “beta” males. Bold men are constantly brought to a state of abject apology for their insensitivity, not to mention their “shameful” state of male privilege.

This problem goes back not so much