Sherry, you’ll forgive me for being a bit confused by your response. You seem to be saying that, because you are liberally-minded yet not prescriptive towards those that aren’t, that the issue raised in my article doesn’t exist. This is a bit of an extrapolation, and simply doesn’t correspond with the world I see.

To be clear, it doesn’t personally bother me one jot that liberals demand we all be nice to each other, and that we criticize the destructive and prejudicial underpinnings of modern conservativism. Seen through a rational lens, political correctness is just a synonym for simple human empathy and courtesy, and I don’t find that hard.

The eye-roll reflex I referred to (which you misread as being a disdain for liberal mores) is born of weariness, not disagreement. I’m not proud of it, and it’s not something I’d ever allow to metastasize into a sympathy for right-wing politics — like it or not, I am the left-winger I claim to be, by rational choice, not blind instinct. But I am interested in where the eye-roll comes from, and how it informs the crisis that liberalism has found itself in today.