Bias Incident is a novel dedicated to satirizing Politically Correct nonsense. Why do so?
Let’s let a far better writer than myself explain. Here’s Theodore Dalrymple on why he bothered to refute the arrant nonsense of an “educationalist” he was debating:
Halfway through my own reply, however, I suddenly became bored. Why do I spend so much time arguing against such obvious rubbish, which should be both self-refuting and auto-satirizing the moment someone utters it? Why not just go and read a good book?
The problem is that nonsense can and does go by default. It wins the argument by sheer persistence, by inexhaustible re-iteration, by staying at the meeting when everyone else has gone home, by monomania, by boring people into submission and indifference. And the reward of monomania? Power.
Read the whole thing here.
