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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...
...area of history that PC has scored its largest successes. The reading of history is never static. There is no such thing as the last word. And who could doubt that there is still much to revise in the story of the European conquest of North and South America that historians inherited? Its basic scheme was imperial: the epic advance of civilization against barbarism; the conquistador bringing the cross and the sword; the red man shrinking back before the cavalry and the railroad. Manifest Destiny. The notion that all historians propagated this triumphalist myth uncritically is quite false; you have...
...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...
...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...