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...anti-anti-PC group is not what we have been waiting for to open up the discourse on Political Correctness...
...group is, in a sense, anti-anti-PC. Does that mean that they are pro-PC? Well, not exactly...
Nowadays, however, debate over the substantive charges of political correctness has given way to a tiresome discourse about the uses of various PC arguments. The real story is not whether there exists a pc orthodoxy, but how the anti-PC argument has itself become an issue of contention--how some have turned anti-PC charges into a rallying cry for the right, constructing in the process yet another orthodoxy of dissent...
...problem with free political speech on campus, then it should be of concern to everybody, not just the right. There has consistently been a need for a voice from the left (or at least from the center), addressing issues of intellectual orthodoxy. But because so much of this PC-talk has been dominated by the likes of the Dartmouth Review's favorite son, Dinesh D'Souza, many rational people have been reluctant to discuss the legitimate problems, for fear of association with the strangest of bedfellows...
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...