I think your message got through fine, you are saying that extremes on both sides like to straw man the most obnoxious of the opposing view as representative and thus poison the well against need for self-examination and disconfirmation of held bias.

While the extreme conservative slant has always been illogical, my point at least is that the mainstream PC view as far as it has reached institutional influence is now resembling the straw-men the conservative extremists used to stand up and this is not a good thing.

What used to be tolerance, has been re-packaged as intolerance for anything subjectively perceived as offensive. We would all be better off to inject a dose of reason into the issue and revert to practicing tolerance, discourse, and education.

For who could be free when every other man's humour might domineer over him? - John Locke (2nd Treatise, sect 57)