A quote from a Civitas press release, 3 January 2006

Anthony Browne describes political correctness as a ‘heresy of liberalism’ (p.2) under which ‘a reliance on reason has been replaced with a reliance on the emotional appeal of an argument’ (p.6). Adopting certain positions makes the politically correct feel virtuous, even more so when they are preventing the expression of an opinion that conflicts with their own: ‘political correctness is the dictatorship of virtue’. [...]

‘Political correctness is essentially the product of a powerful but decadent civilisation which feels secure enough to forego reasoning for emoting, and to subjugate truth to goodness’. (p.84) [...]

‘In the long run of history, political correctness will be seen as an aberration in Western thought. [...] Finally, Western minds may be free again to reason rather than just emote, to pursue objective truth rather than subjective virtue’. (p.87)