I May Be Wrong, but I Am Not Sure

My ultimate objection to political correctness is not that it combines so much of what i have spent a lifetime loathing and opposing. That's not why i'm incurring the wrath of my fellow liberals by standing on this side of the house. My real objection is that i don't think political correctness works. And i believe one of the greatest human failings is to prefer to be right than to be effective. I wouldn't class myself as a classical libertarian, but i do relish transgression, and i deeply and instinctively distrust conformity and orthodoxy. Progress is not achieved by preachers and guardians of morality, but, to paraphrase of genizematin, by madmen, hermits,