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...PC represents the conscious abridgement of freedom of speech by those who claim to hold it most dear. But perhaps even more tragic for the pursuit of free thought on this campus, it has become a straw man for various conservatives who prefer hiding behind accusations of PC to engaging in constructive discourse...
HARVARD STUDENTS have read dozens of articles, letters and posters in recent months in which campus conservatives claim that the rampant PC orthodoxy is stifling their freedom of expression. There should be little doubt that many of these accusations are justified...
When Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel's Coordinating Council voted (by an overwhelming majority) to condemn AALARM's hateful gay-bashing posters last week, it unleashed a torrent of ridiculously vitriolic criticism. AALARM has claimed that Hillel is "a political, PC hack group," and that it has been "subverted by a radical faction." No such thing. Hillel is simply acting in the Jewish tradition of upholding the sanctity of human life--all human life...
...stereotype's just mutating," says Douglas D. Wolk '91. "What you need to do is look at the house T-shirts over a period of years, and see how stereotypes change." Dunster House T-shirts and suggestions for T-shirts have ranged anywhere from "PC-ness Envy" to "Dunster House...I live there," Wolk said...
...current public discussion of acquaintance rape, a discussion which has as its goal the reduction of rape and the appropriate prosecution of those who rape, has produced as well the extraordinary characterization of date rape as an item on the "PC" agenda, and articles which take women and feminists to task for their part in creating the conditions that allow men to rape, either out of lack of control or out of confusion...