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Despite the facetious double negative, two wrongs still don't make a right--or, to be more precise, excess is no answer to excess. If the right, as represented by the National Association of Scholars and their admirers, has been overly hasty to call liberal positions PC, an organization of more liberal scholars could restore some balance to the debate and provide the opportunity for both sides to have a fair hearing...
...think this philosophy makes him more moderate or receptive to others' ideas: Since standards are worthless, he has explicitly announced that he sees no need to live by any theory he may advocate. Such excesses are what prompted the anti-PC movement in the first place, and it would be naive to expect them to disappear just because liberal professors have started a formal organization...
Finally, if people are afraid to discuss the issue of PC, it is probably not because they're afraid of being compared to Dinesh D'Souza...
...debate, as it exists now, is not an intellectual discourse. The confusion with the names of these groups should be enough to signal that this is not a debate substantially about issues--at least that's not what everyone talks about. Somewhere along the line, the ideas of PC, if there ever were any, got lost. Nobody talks about the literary canon anymore, or about Eurocentric ideas...
...there's another big difference--besides the fact that Carleton Putnam was more honest about his intentions. It's that the anti-PC movement of 1961 ended up losing the battle for public opinion. The anti-PC movement of 1991, on the other hand, seems to be winning...