[On terms necessary, yet insufficient]

The article attempts a review of several problems dealing with discourses which rely in the struggle against prejudice and discrimination as an appropriate means for emancipatory purposes. The historicity inherent to claims of equality fighting against discriminatory practices makes reference to historically specific social networks. Globalization tends to standardize equalitarian discourses which then join cultural contexts in which they lack their own genealogy. In countries such as Argentina, this is what happens with the so called politically correct. While in its original environment it has shown its pros and cons regarding emancipatory fights, among us instead it presents itself as an alien import that entails as well those critical attitudes that have informed its recent history, especially those satirical in nature. In a satirical stance, emancipatory struggles find a way to pass over such limits and a modality of great narrative richness intended to recover the highest values at the expense of more crystallized and dogmatic ones. By means of satire, these struggles rediscover cultural traditions of ancient lineage in which is rooted the ethical reserve that supports them.