Open AccessPolitical Correctness oder Tugendterror?
Author(s) -
Susanne Moser
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
labyrinth
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2410-4817
pISSN - 1561-8927
DOI - 10.25180/lj.v19i1.127
Subject(s) - political correctness , virtue , correctness , politics , political science , order (exchange) , human rights , law , law and economics , sociology , political economy , economics , computer science , finance , programming language
Political Correctness or Virtue Terror?Discussing the different meanings of the concept of political correctness, the author argues that it is a part of a profound change in culture within Western democracies that has led to a differentiation and deepening of human and fundamental rights. At the same time, it is shown that political correct-ness was adopted by the political right and used as a fight against this differentiation of human and fundamental rights in the Western liberal democracies, in order to defame them by linking the corre-sponding prohibitions of discrimination and equality measures with virtue terror.