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According to D'Souza, the new wave of political correctness promotes conformity in the name of diversity. "PC" stands for "every kind of diversity except intellectual diversity," he said...
...Souza criticized the "PC" trend in American higher education, describing universities across the nation as competing in a kind of "cultural Olympics" with more and more ethnic groups demanding representation in the traditional curriculum...
...Morgan states that "'Yes means Yes and No means No' is the PC battle cry." I would like to ask him, if this is a political weapon, what a woman is supposed to do to protect herself. He has, in making this statement, made it okay for a woman to be ignored when she says "no," because, after all, doesn't "no" mean "just about anything," as he states...
Unlike these parents, Hart did not get the point of the flier. While trying to gainsay the allegation that there exists a PC conspiracy here (one, in fact, we never made, because conspiracy connotes a collusion which we have not witnessed yet), Hart maintains that the flier itself is a child of the complicity of Harvard conservatives. The flier belongs to Sumner and me alone, something the handout states at its bottom. But, as her article demonstrates, classification and consequent dismissal is easier than refutation...
Hart writes that conservatives define PC as "any challenge to traditional, white, male, heterosexual" ideas. She's almost semantically accurate, and deceptively so. More precisely, though, PC is "any challenge to traditional, white, male, heterosexual" ideas simply and only because the ideas belong to someone who's traditional, white, male, and/or heterosexual. In other words, PC means to dismiss rather than to disprove. Conservatives are not at all afraid of an open marketplace of ideas. We have always believed that our ideas are better (as I'm sure the non-relativist liberals have as well), and we desire only...