Conrad would like to rob the artist of his/her individuality by making their performance
so bland that it would appeal to everyone. The problem with this is that the more appeal an artist has to a larger audience, the tendency is to reduce the performance to a vacuity.

There are certain things in every culture that are objectionable. For example, Islam's practice of "honor killings" and public beheadings. Or Christian witch-burning. (check out Martin Luther and John Wesley's attitude about this). As to cultures specifically, it was part of the Southern culture of the Forties to hang black people.

PC is a term that has lost its meaning. There is no political correctness any more. Politics is all over the map and is often confusing such as the ideas promulgated by the "Tea Baggers".

PC was used by devotees of the Right-wing to condemn those whom with which they disagreed.

The idea that the current musical artist is part of a "conspiracy" to push rigid political ideas across to anyone is specious. It has no merit.

If you analyze the development of the performing artists who make a difference in people's lives you find change and fluidity in their ideas, musically and lyrically.
The idea that their are those who are frozen in time in their political beliefs just
doesn't apply today. At the same time, those without passion or conviction in their politics or ideas make for very dull performers.

Most folkies admire Pete or Utah Phillips or Woody Guthrie precisely because they made
statements that if at least the audience may not have agreed with the sentiments, they
realized the integrity of their performance.

The cultural anthropologist is not in a state of wanting to freeze people in time although this was the tendency of Herskovitz and many stuffy folklorists. Societies are fluid,
change with the times, and can't be monolithic in their views.

The "multicultural" tolerance and pseudo-objectivity can become enabling for the
destructive tendencies of some cultures and religions and these should not be tolerated.