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Originally Posted by meade95
The fact that some busy-body, do-gooder PC attitude fella...
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I can't resist pointing out an irony, although it may involve beating my own drum. (Then again, it may also serve to correct a misconception.) At all events, I was one of the first writers in America to use the term
politically correct. The term was so new back in 1989 (the shorthand "PC" had yet to be invented) that I put it in quotation marks.
Back then I wrote that what some of us were objecting to was a "one-sided view of the university . . . as a forum for dissent from American power, 'dissent' being defined exclusively in leftist terms. . . . [This view] should give way to the older conception of the university as a place for learning the specific activities that enable a person to think independently, rather than the political ideologies that permit him to think 'correctly,' if he thinks at all."
What's that I hear Chris muttering in the background about chickens coming home to roost?