Political Correctness oder Tugendterror?

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https://doi.org/10.25180/lj.v19i1.127

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Political Correctness, hate speech, discrimination, silencing, liberalism, illiberalism

Abstract

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.

 

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The Heretical Perspectives of Jan Patočka (1907-1977)

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Published

01.09.2017

How to Cite

Moser, S. (2017). Political Correctness oder Tugendterror?. Labyrinth, 19(1), 166–179. https://doi.org/10.25180/lj.v19i1.127

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Vol. 19 No. 1 (2017): The Heretical Perspectives of Jan Patočka (1907-1977)

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