ABSTRACT
The attitudes associated with political correctness (PC) and the adversary culture are further nourished by a selective social determinism: racists, sexists, capitalists, rednecks, and homophobes chose their detestable beliefs and ways and hence can be held fully responsible. The chosen victims are helpless products of social history or circumstance, as for example violent criminals who belong to the minorities of the inner city, or selected public heroes of the adversary culture. The key question in the survival of the adversary culture is whether or not and to what degree its adherents succeed in its transmission to the younger generations. Radical feminism remains, of course, an important source of support for PC and a component of the adversary culture, though in the area too there have been some changes. American culture and society has a limited attention span and a great thirst for novelty; much of PC has been with us far too long to attract sympathetic attention and enthusiastic support.
