Ask the Ethicalist: On Political Correctness: Are PC-Bots a Cult?

By M.L. Bartlett

Political correctness is killing America!
The Ethicalist calls out these clangingly obnoxious practitioners of political correctness (PC-Bots) in a series of letters from the offended and offenders in the form of an advice column, sort of a “Dear Abby” for the clueless.
It is satire. Offence is deliberate. Actual letters are fictional.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Sep 29, 2015
• ISBN: 9781483559476

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A Letter from the Ethicalist

Dear reader,

The following is typical of hundreds of letters I receive weekly:

"Dear Ethicalist,

"While sitting in a nice restaurant having a quiet dinner with a colleague recently, the manager approached our table and, with some urgency, said we must leave the premises and never come back. Patrons at a nearby table had complained about our offensive conversation. The manager reiterated that his establishment did not serve people like us. I have been the victim of racial slurs before, but it is my practice to rise above them. I take pride in my dignity.

"Ethicalist, my colleague and I had been quietly discussing the unusual health issue of a man who had recently returned to the United States from a remote island in the Pacific with parasites living under his skin. The parasites had grown rather large and were removed with tweezers and dropped into jars of formaldehyde for examination in a laboratory. We considered the find important to the health of residents of that island.

"Trying to alleviate the tension, I complimented the complainers on the remarkable hearing that enabled their eavesdropping on our quiet discussion of an admittedly unappetizing subject, apologized profusely and offered to pay for their dinners.

"Alas, our good intentions met with flying spit and invectives. A woman in the group, her cheeks aflame with furious indignation, screamed ‘Get out! Get out! Parasites are living beings, too!’ Then she collapsed in tears as others, while patting the poor creature on her back and head, threatened to kill us if we didn’t leave immediately.

"Another member of the group screamed, ‘Murderers! Bloody frigging murderers!’ They pelted us with green beans and other vegetables.

"My colleagues and I were astonished. Murderers?

"I asked the screamer why he had called us murderers.

Because, you ignorant bigot, you aborted a living creature that had sought asylum in a trusted developmental facilitator. A parasite has rights, man. People like you make me sick.

"Who were these people, Ethicalist? Is this a new illiberal cult?

"We left without paying our tab. Was that ethical?

"Best regards,

Bernard in LA

Readers, Bernard in LA had the misfortune to be seated next to a cheerless, schoolmarmish group, commonly known as the illiberal left, political correct-bots (PC-Bots), a bunch that maligns others for expressing opinions that they, by some addled illogic, construe as offensive. Their methods are demonization, marginalization, and delegitimization. One might postulate that this is what happens when kids are deprived of Saturday morning cartoons. Intellectual stimulation went out the window for these people when Tom and Jerry went dark.

Are they a cult? The Ethicalist leaves that to the reader to decide.

The Ethicalist has included in this book letters from PC-Bots and those struggling to get along in an illiberal PC world without getting whacked.

The reader will notice that the Ethicalist is also an astute business person, always generous with free wisdom but, having bills to pay like everyone else, looking to make a buck. He’s the owner of varied corporations, financial instruments, holding companies, schools, television and movie studios, funeral homes, pharmaceutical companies, and cannabis farms and sincerely appreciates and celebrates his Constitutional right to practice capitalism.

Names of advice seekers, for the most part, are never disclosed, as the Ethicalist’s ethos is discretion; however, the reader will naturally be tempted to guess the identities