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...results of the system's scathing inequality, excess and waste are socially devastating...
Despite the facetious double negative, two wrongs still don't make a right--or, to be more precise, excess is no answer to excess. If the right, as represented by the National Association of Scholars and their admirers, has been overly hasty to call liberal positions PC, an organization of more liberal scholars could restore some balance to the debate and provide the opportunity for both sides to have a fair hearing...
...their politically-advantageous fire. We are now realizing how the right has lumped together all too many completely different causes (environmentalism, feminism, gay rights) into one amorphous heap labeled "PC." We are finding out that the content of those "multicultural" courses, upheld by the right as the epitome of excess, were sometimes grossly exaggerated. And, as was explained recently in The Nation and Tikkun, D'Souza's retelling of the alleged political persecution of Harvard historian Stephan Thernstrom (often cited as the prime example of pc totalitarianism) was flat-out inaccurate...
More controversial has been the search for a hereditary factor underlying hypertension. Stress and diet are known to affect high blood pressure. Racism may also play a role. But "there is so much excess hypertension in blacks that it's inconceivable to me that these factors alone are the ones that balance the equation upward," says Dr. Elijah Saunders, a cardiologist at the University of Maryland Medical System. Some researchers have even suggested that African Americans have inherited a greater sensitivity to salt. But any explanation along genetic lines will have to account for the fact that modern- day Africans...
...extremely concerned about what is happening to the American family. Those of us in the sane center are always being clobbered by both the left and the right. We think of ourselves as a nation that cherishes its children, but, in fact, America treats its children like excess baggage. In all other countries, childbirth is seen as an event that is vitally important to the life and future of the nation. But in the U.S. we treat child rearing as some kind of expensive private hobby...