Word: pc
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...liberal-left is beginning to repond to the right-wing campaign against "Political Correctness," as recent articles in The Crimson make clear ("PC Past and Present," October 1, "Pro Anti-Anti PC," October 2). As a member of the Harvard International Socialist Club, I am encouraged by the reaction from the Left to a well-timed and carefully organized right-wing attack...
...students with personal computers can use the network; however, IBM PC's require additional hardware to communicate with the system, which is designed for Apple computers...
THAT IS WHY "Teachers for a Democratic Culture" represents a welcome and urgently needed addition to the cast of characters currently involved in the PC fray. Unchecked, the dissenting right has engaged in many exaggerations, misrepresentations and distortions, adding fuel to 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...
...organization can therefore play an important role, not only by defending that which has been unfairly lumped as PC, but also by opposing those who engage in a sloppy, misguided witch hunt itself ultimately aimed at limiting ideas. There does indeed need to be an examination of issues of academic freedom in today's rapidly-changing universities. But it cannot be conducted only from the right. So long as this group is also willing to engage in true, substantial discussion of the issues involved in PC--and not simply whether PC exists--Teachers for a Democratic Culture can carry...
...support "Teachers for a Democratic Culture," then, not because we believe that "politically correct" views are inherently better than "politically incorrect" views, but because the group is a necessary antidote to the excesses of pc critics. The right maneuvered into a powerful position by portraying itself as an oppressed minority. Hopefully, "Teachers for a Democratic Culture" won't let them get away with...