Over the past two decades, politicians and intellectuals have lent support to rising anti-immigrant sentiments, ethno-nationalist integralism and far-right populism by coining expressions such as ‘cultural exclusion’ and claiming to be speaking in the name of the ‘people’, often under cover of anti-political correctness. In this article I identify a series of recurrent features of such ethno-nationalist identitarian theories. The book I am critiquing, PC Worlds: Political Correctness and Rising Elites at the End of Hegemony (2019) by Jonathan Friedman, is a clear example of these trends. The scholar who had previously critiqued racialized politics and the reification of cultures now offers a book in favour of anti-immigrant ethno-nationalism and radical cultural othering. The article shows how this is the result of contradictions related to the evolution in his own thinking and situates these contradictions in regard to different theories of the nation-state. It also demonstrates how Friedman has proceeded to hollow out his own previous model, by making a distorted and normative use of it, and points out a number of weaknesses, particularly regarding the notions of ‘elites’ and ‘hegemony’. Finally, it questions the very project of conducting a study of political correctness.

在过去的二十年中，政治家和知识分子通过创造诸如“文化排斥”之类的表达并声称以“人民”的名义发言，从而支持了不断增长的反移民情绪，民族民族主义的一体化和极右翼的民粹主义。 ，通常是在反政治正确性的掩护下进行的。在本文中，我确定了这些民族民族主义的认同理论的一系列经常性特征。我批评的一本书，《PC世界：霸权末日的政治正确性和新兴精英》乔纳森·弗里德曼（Jonathan Friedman）（2019）就是这些趋势的明显例子。以前曾批评种族化政治和文化化的学者现在提供了一本书，支持反移民的民族民族主义和激进的文化异化。文章说明了这是与他自己的思想演变有关的矛盾的结果，并将这些矛盾置于民族国家的不同理论上。它还展示了弗里德曼如何通过扭曲和规范地使用它来完善自己的先前模型，并指出了许多弱点，特别是在“精英”和“霸权”概念上。最后，它对进行政治正确性研究的项目提出了质疑。