If our so-called culture war seems all on the side of the right,
there's no reason. It is all in their heads. From the beleaguered -
some would say baffled - silence on the left, this book at long
last emerges with a devastating diagnosis of the "debate" over
political correctness. Written with refreshing clarity and wit,
"Political correctness" describes a cultural non-phenomenon brought
into being by the desires of new-conservatives. Nostalgic for the
simple moral logic of the Cold War, the conservative right has
created an evil empire within and conferred upon its enemies - from
multiculturalists to postmodernists and poststructuralists - an
agenda that demands action from the high-minded. What clearly marks
this as a projection, Richard Feldstein points out, is the moralism
attributed to the forces of political correctness by their
conservative critics. And where, in fact, do we find the obsessive
fixation on judgement, morality, and correct and appropriate
behaviour, that might make political correctness so reprehensible?
It is, Feldstein argues, a central feature of right-wing thinking,
projected onto those who reject such black-and-white, good-and-bad
views as naive. "Political correctness" defines this procedure in
comparison with the process of psychological projection, in which
consciousness transfer onto others what it cannot tolerate. In the
case of cultural projection, Feldstein says, the transference is
often intentional. This book is not just an essential tool to
understanding the way the right deploys this powerful weapon; it is
a guide to resisting the cynical use of these tactics in our
media-saturated society, one that acknowledges the complexity of
life in our multicultural, postmodern world.
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