The Holocaust and PC Doctrine

Political Correctness 1.0: Teaching the Holocaust in schools is a painful but vital part of liberal education. It illustrates, in horrifying terms, what becomes possible when one group of people is treated, at the hands of a totalitarian government, without essential compassion and dignity, what happens when hate becomes a doctrine of a centralized state.

Political Correctness 2.0: There are certain groups of people who become offended and upset at the mention of the Holocaust. They have even raised questions about whether or not the Holocaust was a real historical episode. The people in these groups have some claim to status as a marginalized cultural minority, so to respect their wishes, the Holocaust will not be taught in schools.

England recently upgraded.

Semantics aside, the original, "classic" version of political correctness - which might also be described as fundamental decency and respect for one another, combined with a watchful awareness of the evil possibilities of ethnic hatred - is actually not a bad idea whatsoever.

The re-vamped version is what happens when societies are held hostage by an all-consuming need for cultural harmony at all possible cost, combined with a crippling moral relativism that prevents them from rationally discerning how one tradition may be objectively, logically better and true compared to another.

For example, Nazis. There's a bunch of political systems that are totally and without qualification better than Nazis.