This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Monday, December 12, 2016. I'm Caleb Brown.

As there is political correctness on the left, there is patriotic correctness on the right.

That from Cato Institute Policy Analysts Alex Narasta,

he argues that demanding people use specific language

to refer to groups or public policy issues

can preclude an otherwise rational debate.

And for people on the right, he argues, the bigger problem is that they don't know they're doing

it.

There is a trend on the right.

I call it patriotic correctness and every group has its own rules about the type of speech

allowed and punishing people for how they sort of step outside these bounds.

Liberals have it with political correctness.

It's a stifling, suffocating set of rules that are absurd and silly,

mostly confined to the university and the media but in Hollywood in other places.

What's different about patriotic correctness is that most people who use it aren't aware

that they have their own code of speech, that they have their own code of acceptable behavior.

And so what I wanted to do was just point that out to people and say that as bad as political correctness is there is another form of patriotic

correctness that infects an entirely different group of people, mostly a different group of people,

and it's as stifling.

Well, where does this cause, in your view, where does this cause the biggest problems or

how are people stifled the most when it comes to issues of patriotic correctness?

The biggest victims of it are conservatives.

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