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Vol. 18 (2016): Political Culture

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Political Correctness in Liberal Political Culture: A Chance for Agreement or the Hypocrisy of Power?

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35757/CIV.2016.18.11
Submitted: May 15, 2020
Published: 2016-06-30

Abstract

Political correctness as a norm of behaviour in liberal political culture is criticized as a sophisticated type of modern censorship, or stronger, as an ideological tool in the hands of part of Western political and cultural elites. Nonetheless, it appears to play important and necessary functions in a democratic system. Even if we agree that political correctness is cynical and hypocritical by nature, it does not lose its value. Its ambiguous potential can be creatively used, particularly in the areas of public discourse, deliberation and public debate, but also in other important spheres of liberal political culture and, more broadly, the democratic political system.

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