Word: pc
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...whole sordid atmosphere of persecution, betrayal and paranoia. The number of conservative academics fired by the lefty thought police, by contrast, is zero. There has been heckling. There have been baseless accusations of racism. And certainly there is no shortage of the zealots, authoritarians and scramblers who view PC as a shrewd career move or as a vent for their own frustrations...
...their fans, are likely to accept a name change. Some cite tradition as all-important. Others, more convincingly, claim that calling a team "the Braves" might be a gesture of admiration towards the Indians, not a trivialization of their culture. Still others dismiss the whole matter as the usual PC haggling over semantics...
...Free speech (this principle must be ritually invoked ever since someone in the national media decided the PC hordes, whoever they are, were dripping slime on the First Amendment). Duke is as much a presidential candidate as non-entity Larry Agran, who spoke at the K-School earlier this year, the argument goes. If only someone had invited Hitler to the K-School Forum in 1932 then maybe we'd still be dealing with the Second Reich instead of the Fourth...
Unsurprisingly, these Hitler apologists have recently focused their propaganda efforts on college campuses, looking to deceive a new generation that never saw the Third Reich firsthand. This fall, college newspapers across the country received a full-page advertisement--looking suspiciously like a news feature--explaining how the PC thought police was preventing academic debate about the Holocaust's non-existence, how the photographs, documents and eyewitness accounts proving the obvious in fact prove nothing, how "Zionists and others in the Jewish community" whose "purpose was to drum up world sympathy and political and financial support for Jewish causes...
...only one who doubts that moving a few desks and creating a new title will amount to absolutely nothing? How is the new "diversity czar" (an interesting title in light of conservative accusations that PC is becoming increasingly autocratic) supposed to solve our problems? Hold more picnics? Stage a rally? Distribute a letter? Start a committee? Not exactly a recipe for success...