that those who hold extremist views, like the racist woman in this example, experience pushback and social pressure and shame when they do express such views.

We’ve had an un-PC culture or environment before, in fact it was the norm until relatively recently. The types of comments and views that this woman expressed were very common, the norm even in huge swathes of society, and children were raised to accept them as normal, perpetuating a cycle of evil. I am old enough to remember when people would openly say that kind of stuff all the time, including schoolchildren on the playground and at church — and I was only catching the tail end if it, it had been much worse just 10 or 15 years earlier.

So yes, it’s racism, but it’s also what we and our children would see and hear a lot more of in the unPC environment that many seem to crave. Obviously that lady didn’t feel that the social stigma of PCness was sufficient to stop her from making those types of very public comments. Hopefully she will be shamed into re-thinking her views, or at least into keeping them to herself in the future.