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The death throes of political correctness Many look on, aghast, at the brutal public shamings so frequently meted out to those who say almost anything mildly insensitive. They don't like threats to individual rights made in the name of sensitivity. They notice that everything the political and cultural elite disagrees with is quickly defined as bigotry. Moral pressure even induced both Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton to embrace the absurd idea that immigration law is per se racist. "A Christmas Story" is such a popular movie that two different cable networks run it for 24 hours straight around Christmas time. No doubt its latest excesses will be outdone by yet more egregious flourishes in 2017. But there is some hope even in that; cults and empires are at their most extravagant and unstable in their death throes. It surely never occurred to anyone before 2016 to write, let alone publish, a 1,500-word essay about how it is a subtly racist movie that exemplifies white privilege and conceals the ways the Northern Indiana town it was set in was built on oppression. This silly essay is just a single bullet fired in our long cultural battle over political correctness. The aggressors are members of a left-liberal-dominated elite determined to bend public morality according to their biases and hatreds. They believed until about 9 p.m. on Election Night that they had successfully established their own brand of tyrannical relativism. But there is and never has been national consensus on these matters. And the result of the election suggests that America has reached a point at which it is sick to death of being lectured by busybodies about what ordinary people may think and say in decent society. {FULL} ".....a subtly racist movie that exemplifies white privilege and conceals the ways the Northern Indiana town it was set in was built on oppression.?" Lord help us.