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Because the unasked question "Who are the PC?" has no answer. Because the PC don't exist...
Which isn't to say that the issue hasn't generated a list of candidates. After all, the New York Times felt PC-ness was important enough to allot a full page in its Sunday "Week in Review" section to "A Campus Forum on Multiculturalism." The goal of the page was to consider "the tyranny of the politically correct...
When David A. Plotz, in his lively opinion piece last spring "`Politically Correct' Thought Control" claimed that the left wing groups "have reached virtually identical liberal conclusions on what is `correct'," he was wrong. Most of the groups he singled out don't even have positions on the PC causes celebre...
This, it seems, is the guts of Plotz's argument: "The result of this campus activism and media bombardment [by just a few radicals] is that the only voice that gets heard at Harvard is the voice of the PC." Which means that "Harvard's sheeplike liberal majority is large enough and accepting enough of this PC ideology to stifle campus debate." In the end, the blame falls on the "PC crowd...
...other words, Plotz and others utilize the same rhetoric that they deride. By lumping students into a silent majority, they effectively silence that majority. The only people who are left with any real opinions at all are the "PC ideologues," the "oppressed conservatives" reading National Review in Lamont and campus critics such as David Plotz...