Word: corrections
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Simply because PC exists at Harvard, however, does not mean it is as prevalent as a few campus conservatives claim. As they would have it, any conflicting opinion is politically correct and can be dismissed...
...effect of eliminating certain arguments from the realm of discourse just as much as PC itself does. For example, there are legitimate arguments for an Afro-Am Department, a Palestinian homeland and the continuance of sanctions before launching the recent attack on Iraq. These positions, part of the "politically correct" agenda, should not be categorically dismissed simply because they are part of that agenda...
Rather than waging a which hunt against the "politically correct" just as the PC crowd tries to root out "racists, sexists and homophobes," conservatives must keep in mind that all ideological purges quickly border on absurdity...
Rather than adopt the tactics of the politically correct, then, conservatives must demonstrate the superiority of their arguments through rational discourse. Rather than throwing around the charge of PC to discredit the position of their opponents, a practice that will eventually begin to backfire, conservatives and moderates must seek to destroy the icons of the PC crowd. Just as in literature, "crying wolf" will only result in deaf ears when the Harvard community needs to be alerted to true examples of "political correctness...
Conservative polemicist Dinesh D'Souza is living every nonfiction author's fantasy: to publish at precisely the politically correct moment. Like the cavalry in an old-time western racing over the hill to save the wagon train from the murderous Indians -- oops!, misunderstood Native Americans -- Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus arrives just as public outrage is building to a peak. Liberals and conservatives alike have suddenly joined forces to ridicule the excesses of left-wing policies and posturing in academia. It is almost as if, having exorcised the legacy of Vietnam in foreign policy, Americans...