Part of the modus operandi of those who fund and fuel this industry is to accuse anyone who dares to call attention to anti-Muslim hate speech or discrimination of engaging in "political correctness".
We therefore categorically reject any policy of quotas or positive discrimination, those pet themes of political correctness.
In interviews and in tweets, he has either confidently said that he can make up some language to get around constitutional restraints on religious discrimination or else railed about how "political correctness" has kept him from being as tough as he'd like to be.
A Tory MP has bombarded the government's equalities watchdog with a series of extraordinary letters about race and sex discrimination, in a one-man campaign against "political correctness".
And yet this, of course, isn't the point of political correctness, the speech codes meant to address or ameliorate the discrimination faced by marginalized and minority groups in our society.
The American cult of political correctness may have begun as a response to ugly practices of discrimination, but it soon morphed into a regime of taboos and dogmas.
Even the Centre for Equal Opportunities – the Belgian agency responsible for enforcing the federal discrimination legislation – warned against "over-reaction and hyper political correctness".
Progressive shifts in awareness over the years including what some have termed the discourse of "political correctness" have helped, but these shifts have also allowed systems of discrimination to learn the language of racism, and as such, how best to mask racist behaviour.
They would be much less likely today, partly because political correctness has made people more cautious (not least thanks to a series of high-profile sex-discrimination court cases) but mainly because attitudes really have changed.
It's important to recognise the benefits of positive discrimination in the labour market, rather than view legislation to combat inequality as red tape or political correctness.
