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Simply because PC exists at Harvard, however, does not mean it is as prevalent as a few campus conservatives claim. As they would have it, any conflicting opinion is politically correct and can be dismissed...
...most egregious example of this abuse of PC name-calling in recent weeks is the characterization by AALARM co-founder E. Adam Webb '93 of the Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel as "a political, PC, hack group." The charge is ludicrous...
Moreover, this practice also has the dangerous side-effect of eliminating certain arguments from the realm of discourse just as much as PC itself does. For example, there are legitimate arguments for an Afro-Am Department, a Palestinian homeland and the continuance of sanctions before launching the recent attack on Iraq. These positions, part of the "politically correct" agenda, should not be categorically dismissed simply because they are part of that agenda...
Rather than waging a which hunt against the "politically correct" just as the PC crowd tries to root out "racists, sexists and homophobes," conservatives must keep in mind that all ideological purges quickly border on absurdity...
This dynamic can be best demonstrated by the baneful effects of PC on other elite campuses with less open-minded administrations. Amherst College has forbid the sale of Coca-Cola products on campus because of the corporation's investments in South Africa-despite Coca-Cola's brilliant record of providing scholarships for Black South Africans and other aid for the oppressed non-white majority of that racist regime...