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During the Red Scare, simply questioning the American government made you a Communist. Today, any challenge to traditional, white, male, heterosexual hegemony makes you a PC totalitarian. Just as the "Commie" epithet was used three decades ago to suspend rational political discourse, so today is the catch-phrase "PC" bandied about carelessly to dismiss any argument conservatives find distasteful...
...same thing is happening today. There are occasional examples of over-zealous reactions to comments unfairly perceived as racist, sexist, "ableist." But anti-PC forces move too smoothly from these isolated incidents to the idea that all accusations of prejudice are unfounded "PC totalitarianism...
THOSE WHO level charges of PC totalitarianism are playing a dangerous mirror game. While conservative students scream about supposed violations of their right to free speech, it is becoming slowly unacceptable to express a liberal point of view...
Reducing every progressive cause to the "PC" epithet is a powerful conservative tool. It makes people uncomfortable about expressing liberal ideas, shuts off reasonable debate with an unanswerable charge and erases serious social problems by suggesting that they are fictitious products of some radical leftist agenda...
...striking example of this denial can be seen in some recent reactions to acquaintance rape--now declared a "PC" issue and thus an hystericized red herring presented by rabid feminists to emasculate...