Word: pc
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...October 1, Adam K. Goodheart wrote an Opinion piece ("PC Past and Present") in which he compared "the chic anti-PC brigade, circa 1991" to a white supremacist writer of the 1960s. He even called the writer, Carleton Putnam, "the Dinesh D'Souza of Jackson, Mississippi, circa 1961," in a reference to the opponent of political correctness and author of Illiberal Education...
...doing so, Goodheart emphasizes style and ignores substance. For example, Putnam condemned "the idea that all races are equal in their adaptability to our Western culture." D'Souza and other opponents of PC, in contrast, advocate exposing students of all races to the best of both Western and non-Western cultures...
...Crimson picked up the theme in an editorial on October 2 ("Pro Anti-Anti-PC") which said, "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...
Knowing The Crimson, I expect that there will be many more "anti-anti-PC" articles. Whatever the reason for these inappropriate attacks on Thernstrom, I hope that The Crimson will not continue to attack him in those articles. Joshua S. Kreitzer...
...underscore those predictions, technology watchers are being treated this month to an unprecedented burst of multimedia-related activity. Last week representatives of more than 70 high-tech firms, led by Microsoft and Tandy, gathered at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City to unveil the Multimedia PC (MPC), a souped-up personal computer that can play games, video and interactive programs stored on silver discs that look like audio CDs. Prices start at $2,800 -- or about $800 more than an ordinary PC. One week earlier, former archrivals Apple and IBM revealed plans to start a joint...