The liberal vision

That world view [that gives birth to PC] is liberalism, the belief in equality and non-discrimination as the ruling principles of society. Liberalism attacks all the larger wholes--natural, social, and spiritual--that structure man's existence, because those larger wholes create differences and distinctions which violate the rule of equality and non-discrimination. Liberalism attacks God, truth, religion, objective morality, standards of excellence, social traditions, the family, parental authority, sex differences, nation, ethnicity, and race. It aims at a world of liberated, equal human selves, with no God above them and no country or culture around them, free to interact on a basis of total freedom and equality with all other human selves on earth. To achieve this universal freedom and equality, the ability of actual peoples to define and govern themselves must be eliminated. Democratic and constitutional self-government must be replaced by the regime of the global elite, a regime that is beyond criticism and democratic accountability because it represents and embodies the very principle of liberal goodness: the equality of all.

That's the liberal vision. Political correctness is one of the weapons by which this vision is imposed, it is not the vision itself.

"George MacDonald Fraser, the ruin of Britain, and the possibility of true resistance to liberalism." By Lawrence Auster, View from the Right, 1/14/08