1

Just beneath the sleek and slick
virtue-signaling facade-propping trick
of smug cosmopolitan tolerance;
just behind the flimsy tinsel-thin front
of self-professed acceptance
and all-embracing respect

most make-believe liberals
are desperately keen to project

lurks the ever-present threat
of a dormant authoritarian streak
which suddenly goose steps its way
to the fore the instant
these officious creeps feel the need to police
the sorts of things plain speakers might say.

2

A brilliant system devised to sterilize speech
and suck the life out of language
a not-uncunning plot
to throttle the range and limit the reach
of permissible and possible thought

a frightening black-or-whitening
ever-tightening noose around nuance
a celebration of linguistic restriction
a catalyst for cognitive corruption
what’s PC but a sinister scheme
to hinder wisdom and stifle discussion?

Censorship by plausibly deniable means
an ongoing attempt to hamstring dissent
an evil device designed to bind and gag
irrefutable uncomfortable truths

a monstrous machine conceived
to smother both dis and unapproved views
the disguised-as-benign leading edge
of newspeak’s devious virulent wedge
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4

The insidious suppression
of both candor and freedom of speech
the sugarcoated perfection
of euphemization’s overweening reach

PC — fancying itself the zenith
of hip sophistication
and the pinnacle of verbal taste and tact —

PC — vis-a-vis the word — is in fact
nothing if not a priggish unenlightened
subconsciously frightened
language-loathing load of humourless rot

whose noxious effluence flows
from the intolerant close-minded confluence
from the cowardly tyrannical surge
that occurs where the currents of evasion
hypocrisy and thought muzzling merge.