Totalitarian is the insidious goal of "political correctness". It is not philosophically justifiable to make the behavior a crime. So, they slowly get people to accept that it is 1) in bad taste, 2) inappropriate, 3) hate or racially motivated, 4) a violation of "civil rights," and finally in violation of a bastardized meaning of a crime. It is not philosophically justifiable because it stands in contradiction to the right of free speech. Ayn Rand says, contradictions can not exist. Rights do not contradict. However, this movement wants one to accept abridging freedom as not abridging freedom, that we never had the right to say things that hurt other people's feelings. Rubbish! In the arena of ideas, people claiming to be offended use this emotional appeal to distract from their failure to defend their indefensible ideas, which lead inexorably to a totalitarian state. There is a difference between moral and political. The politically correct crowd denies this difference by attempting to substitute moral condemnation with political prosecution, then persecution. Those who blur the line attack the idea of the individual, without which there is no practical purpose of liberty.