Yes, Yes.
Especially when being “politically correctly” means being dishonest, or obtuse, or avoiding addressing a problem.
There’s no need to offend diverse groups unnecessarily. But there are times when the truth is going to offend someone.
Agreed...
Machiavelli stated that Truth is more hated than Lies. People throughout history, who state “Truth”-—get marginalized, killed, or exiled, like McCarthy, Socrates, Cicero, Apostles, and Machiavelli. Even the most perfect and gentle Jesus was killed for the “Truth”.
It has always been so——people (the ignorant masses) would rather hear lies and rhetoric, rather than Truth.
Hitler was all rhetoric and lies and look how well he did. Only a few are out of Plato’s Cave——always been just a few....but the truth does have a special ring to it.
Marxists hate truth more than anyone. Truth is like the Light is for cockroaches, for “Truth will set you Free.”