In the age of political correctness, that sceptics would call societal hypocrisy, the most offensive concepts have come to pass as not just acceptable, but desirable.

Concepts such as tolerance and political correctness
To say that gays will roast in hell, or that black people or women have limited intelligence is political incorrect. We don’t know what’s more offensive, Trent Lott’s going on a limp to express his true beliefs about segregation and how this country would have been better off with Strom Thurmond’s presidency, or some Republicans and racists hypocritical criticisms of his comments, when they couldn’t avoid it any longer.

An exemplary figure of that hypocrisy, late Senator Thurmond said in one speech that “All the bayonets in the Army cannot force the Negro into our homes, our schools, our churches and our places of recreation.”

It seems, though, that the bedroom was not out of reach, since Thurmond had a black daughter who he never acknowledged in public.
The concept of political correctness implies that there could be two right answers to those issues, but one of them should not be expressed in public because it could bring about a civil war.

“You are probably right. Blacks are dumber, latinos dirtier, Jews hate Christians, Muslims are all terrorist and the Koran with all its falsehood should be flushed down the toilet, and women are not good at Math. Just don’t say it out loud.”
But there are issues that don’t have two right answers. Racism is one of them. Political correctness is essentially incorrect because it assumes that you could be racist and be all right. No, if you are racist you are wrong. Talk about moral relativism!.

Political correctness also kills the possibility of debate. Many of the truths we now accept came through after heated debates and even terrible fights, death included. Now, political correctness, which is terribly patronizing so not to “offend” those “poor people” it purports to defend, shuts down the debate before it even begins.

If one does not believe in women’s inferiority, why should one believes they need defense?
Then there is the tolerance issue. My mother used to say she would not tolerate any disrespect; one normally refers to things one needs to cope with as “tolerable” and to those unbearable as “intolerable.” From the school of political correctness comes the “tolerant behavior” and soon enough schools are trying to “teach tolerance of gays, of people of other religions, etc.”

Well, would someone accept a school to tell “We will teach tolerance of blacks.”? No, nobody would accept that, because it’s politically incorrect... and morally repugnant.

To say one should tolerate homosexuals is a contradiction with a core fact: mainstream science says that sexual orientation is not a choice, in the same way race is not a choice, therefore, either one stops denigrating gays with that “tolerance” or we begin talking about tolerating blacks.

Avoiding confrontation plays into the hands of homophobes, in the same way it has played and plays into the hands of racists, and bigots of all stripes.