Eric Levitz on Heather Cox Richardson, Political Correctness, and the Smug Epistemic Train Wreck of the Progressive Left

My title for his piece, not Levitz's

This Richardson person isn't an anomaly.

   Living in the ideologically-grounded fantasy of political correctness has been basically the central characteristic of the left since about 2013...or 1985...or 1917...depending on how you count it...

   Anong the many bizarro things about the left is that its denizens not only live in a transparently fictional fantasy world...but they think themselves to be smarter, more rational, and just generally epistemically superior to everybody else.

   This is not an anomaly.

   This is how the extremist left has conducted itself both times it has become powerful in my lifetime--the PC fad on campuses ca. 1985-1995 and the Great Awokening of the past decade.

   Every faction stretches the truth to match its ideology. Radicals are particularly bad about it. The farther you go toward the right tail of the curve, the more you find it...but only the left basically turns it into a principle. At least on the right, it tends to be recognized as an error. But leftists, being a more philosophical lot, often openly proclaim their rejection of the very ideas of truth and objectivity.