Whose horse is that?

Louise Erdrich, in "Holy Rage: Lessons from Standing Rock," at the website of The New Yorker magazine:

Understanding the natural world as more than just a resource for energy, or a recreational opportunity, or even a food resource, gives moral weight to the effort to contain catastrophic climate change. Imagine if Energy Transfer Partners planned to drill underneath Jerusalem. Of course, the company wouldn’t consider such a route. Yet it would be safer than drilling beneath the Missouri River.

Without saying so herself, Erdrich here reveals the bankruptcy beneath all the kvetching about Political Correctness.  The wingnuts have claimed the concept for their own but really it just depends on whose horse is being gored.  Israel is one of their favorite horses.

Putting Harriet Tubman's likeness on the twenty dollar bill would be an act of mindless obeisance to Political Correctness.  Running an oil pipeline underneath the Missouri River, however, makes perfect sense.  The Indians are against it?  They rest their case.

But don't try to tell them that the settlement project in the West Bank is unwise, illegal, an obstacle to peace, and against the long-term interests of Israel.  Anti-Semite!

The subject can't even be discussed, because a contrary view identifies a moral reprobate.

I think it's politically incorrect to point this out.