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...contrary, many did not conform to that benevolent stereotype. Many contributors to the Eliot e-mail list feigned outrage that “political correctness?? could impede upon their Housing Day festivities. Others dismissed her concern as baseless or even insulting to other groups who have to endure apparently more hurtful discrimination. One respondent even marshaled statistics to demonstrate the factual basis for the association between Italians and organized crime. Many did not eschew ad hominem attacks—or harassing phone calls, angry personal e-mails, and judgmental stares in the dining hall...
...lightness that makes you laugh and at the same time realize the disturbing truths of adolescent life and our education system. Maybe it’s not such a bad thing to laugh and be slightly offended at the same time. Although “political correctness?? came about as an honest means to protect each other, we, in America, have created a culture crippled by its own over-sensitivity. It’s difficult to fix problems that we are afraid to look at. Though our countries are on opposite sides of the world, we can still...
...convictions. One woman I met worried that Obama would leverage the presidency against whites. “It’s the reckoning,” she said simply.The racism of fear is subtler and more insidious than the kind of our past. It thrives on silence and political correctness??on the avoidance of the race issue at all costs, and on our willingness to pretend it is something else entirely. And it festers, for that reason, among the middle-class voters who have lost almost everything—jobs, savings, homes—and who are loathe...
...speculations are a Rorschach of the right’s views on what’s wrong with America. The consensus circles around two allegations. Some judge that elite university academics are lazy and complacent, while others have blamed the Faculty’s “political correctness??—which one alumnus defined as “exquisite sensitivity to minority issues.” Those who know that neither allegation is true leap to the conclusion that Summers was ousted by some tiny “cabal.” As the sponsor...
...position to distinguish between the reality of this complex situation and the knee-jerk hysteria that surrounds it—it is hard to interpret the post-resignation public defenses of Summers as anything but angry, reactionary pessimism. Indeed, we should remember that “political correctness?? was a concept invented by conservatives to malign progressive attempts to democratize and diversify the academy and to make higher education more hospitable to a broader range of people and ideas. Those who characterize Summers as an undeserving victim of “political correctness?? fail to apprehend...