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These could be the words of almost anyone in the chic anti-PC brigade, circa 1991: an editor of Peninsula, The Salient, or The Crimson, one of your professors, or many students. The complaint that the views of a politically correct minority are dominating and corrupting American universities has become commonplace in recent months...
Only these particular words weren't written or spoken by any of the people you might suspect. They were spoken 30 years ago, by a white-supremacist in Mississippi. Meet the anti-PC brigade, circa...
...Souza describes a climate of "campus orthodoxy," quoting professors who say they do not dare to speak openly on racial issues. Meanwhile, Newsweek runs a cover story decrying "PC Thought Control." The New Republic calls multiculturalism "one of the most destructive and demeaning orthodoxies of our time...
SUCH COMPARISONS may seem crude or facile. It is true that the politics of 1991 are not those of 1961. But the subtexts, the fundamental concerns, of today's and yesterday's anti-PC crusades are remarkably similar...
Much of the evidence that has surfaced in support of theories of pc-totalitarianism has been drawn from a particular anecdote involving Harvard historian Stephan Thernstrom. According to Dinesh D' Souza, author of Illiberal Education, the anti-pc manifesto, three Black students charged Thernstrom with racial insensitivity in his use of slave owners' journals in teaching American history. The students, as the story goes, did not confront Thernstrom, but rather went to the administration and to The Crimson. Thernstrom, without a chance to defend himself, was branded a racist. But in this week's Nation, Jon Wiener claims to present...