Analysis Of Lindy West's Essay 'Political Correctness'

In Lindy West's’ essay, “‘Political correctness’ doesn’t hinder free speech- it expands it,” she argues against Jonathan Chait definition and political views from an interview with Audie Cornish, on National Public Radio. On the radio they talked “...about activism and political correctness on today's college campuses.” In her essay, West implies that Jonathan Chait and ‘company’ are in agreement that black Americans being killed by government people ‘are the real puppetmasters of an authoritarian regime.’ West writes this piece very sarcastically when she says ‘Right.’ after, indicating that she does not believe that. I would agree with her statement there, because there are many reasons black Americans are being killed and it could be because they are the ‘puppetmasters,’ but it could also be because of the color of their skin. Jonathan Chait's definition of political correctness is corrupted not only by his views but by the fact that he is a political columnist on an world wide newspaper, which hinders his definition because politics are crooked. …show more content…
West also states that, social media reaches even the people who don’t want to be reached, like it’s a bad thing. When it could, in fact be a good thing because people today don’t know what’s happening in the world because they’re watching the news; people get the news of the world through social media nowadays. Another thing West talks about is how people now are so paranoid of how others will react to the things they want to share. “It seems you can’t say anything any more, the aphorism goes, without the politically correct police bringing down the