Political Correctness is Real

Barry Dredze
3 min readJun 3, 2021
4th United States Colored Infantry, Company E, about 1864 (Photo: Library of Congress)

You can tell “real” patriotism mostly by who expresses it, like when a conservative wears a flag pin in the lapel of his sport jacket or declares their loyalty to the statues of Confederate war heroes.

“Our nation is witnessing a merciless campaign to wipe out our history, defame our heroes, erase our values, and indoctrinate our children,” the most recent former president warned his cult at the foot of Mount

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Barry Dredze

Just another mortal, tweaking my cognitive map on the fly.