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...reactionaries who dismiss liberal causes as "PC totalitarianism...
...HANDS of conservative critics, the epithet "PC" becomes an eraser, making liberal ideas nothing more than knee-jerk euphemisms and real-life problems nothing more than fictions...
This eraser effect leaves space only for the world as conservative students wish it to be. This PC Scare stifles debate in its search for a monolithic community...
...editors wrote, "Feminists try to tell me that I should watch out for date rape--the same girls that are handed a box of pills and a diaphragm with their notebooks and Coop card when they come to college." Date rape, like available birth control, is a "PC" threat to this writer's oh-so-comfortable picture of the world. He thus suggests that birth control implies continuous consent to all future sexual activity, negating the possibility of date rape...
...another recent instance of denial through labels, an administrator, discussing the "PC hegemony," reportedly complained that some colleges were treating acquaintance rape like it was a serious problem, actually forcing students to attend a meeting to discuss the issue...