[carapat_virulat]

Many of the seminal writers of what the author calls The American cult of political correctness in universities, like Derrida, Foucault, de Bevoir, Butler, Adorno have all been influenced by Nietzsche.

I haven't read any of those authors nor Nietzsche, and I have no idea whatsoever about the political correctness that goes on in the USA so I'm not trying to make any kind of point.

I just find it funny that conservatives have a certain pop idea of Nietzsche as some kind of more serious Ayn Rand, while actual Nietzsche scholars have actualized his ideas in all kinds of directions.

[JackFr]

The American cult of political correctness may have paid lip service to those authors 20 or 30 years ago, but the current regime of trigger warnings and safe spaces doesn't even pretend to have an intellectual basis. It's grounded largely on the supremacy of the subjective experience, 'feelsies' if you will.

That being said, your complaint about conservatives is a bit of a straw man.

[wfo]

Pretty much dead on.

I don't think any conservatives think of Nietzsche as a more serious Ayn Rand, rather they think of Ayn Rand as serious herself. Reading Nietzsche (or any philosopher really) without the proper context these days he appears just genuinely weird. I think non-intellectual people on the left read Derrida and Foucault and it eventually turned into trigger warnings and safe spaces. Non-intellectual people on the right read Nietzsche and it eventually turned into books called things like "Atlas Shrugged" and polemics about "makers and takers".

[camgunz]

I feel some consternation whenever I see loaded language, and in this case it's "cult".

It's completely reasonable to not want your race, gender, sexual orientation, etc. attacked around your home (safe spaces), or to not have violent acts you've experienced joked about (trigger warnings).

These things are different than being against free speech; that's the strawman here.