Hya Dave!!!"Political correctness"-disparaging mentality has a spotlight shone on it. It's not pretty.
"According to a report done by the Data & Society Research Institute, “Far-right movements exploit young men’s rebellion and dislike of ‘political correctness’ to spread white supremacist thought, Islamophobia, and misogyny through irony and knowledge of internet culture.” Boards like “politically incorrect,” better known as /pol/, are filled with memes like tradwife girl — images that mask violent Nazi ideas, but are passed around as ironic and edgy."
“White-nationalist and alt-right groups use jokes and memes as a way to normalize bigotry while still maintaining plausible deniability..."
https://www.heyalma.com/why-is-everybody-suddenly-sharing-these-alt-right-memes/
As a reasonable bloke, I'm sure you understand that evils are inherent to both extremes of the political spectrum.
And as I have mentioned before when I was a Union Delo, I've been labeled a right wing shit hole, and a leftist ratbag, all on the same day!!
Now I have had three tinnies of VB with a mate, so I havn't really to much more to say, except that I'm sure you know I am not in the least racist, but may probably misconstrue other things I have said as mildly sexist. I don't accept that they are by the way.
Anyway have a great bloody Chrissy and a better New Year, and I'll leave you with the following link that sort of says beter what I'm trying to convey.
ps: Obviously there is also a ton of bloody stuff, for both sides of this debate on the net.....
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0239259
Abstract
Recent studies have documented a shift from moderate political attitudes to more extreme attitudes at the ends of the political spectrum. This can be seen in Political Correctness (PC) on the left, and white identitarian (WI) attitudes on the ‘Alt-Right’ (AR). While highly covered in mainstream media, limited academic research has investigated their possible antecedents and psychological correlates. The current study investigated the prevalence and psychological predictors of these attitudes. Utilising a quota-based sample of 512 U.S. participants, we found that extreme political attitudes were associated with various personality traits, social media use, and upbringing. PC attitudes were associated with agreeableness, black-white thinking, social-media use, and perceived overprotective parenting. WI attitudes were associated with low agreeableness and openness, and high black-white thinking. Our results show that extreme left and right attitudes are separated by individual differences, and that authoritarianism can be seen on both the left and the right.