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...During my time as head of HRC, conservatism on campus had a resurgence," he says, citing the publication of Peninsula and the formation of AALARM (the Association Against Learning in the Absence of Religion and Morality...
Like the writers of Peninsula, Anderson continues to emphasize Harvard's origins as a Christian university...
What if the advertisement had not attacked Jews but another, less well-represented group at The Crimson or on campus, such as gay men and lesbians, as Peninsula did? What if we had held that ad? We might be called by some, or by someone, "a paragon...
...very term "politically correct," I would argue, works not unlike the convert rhetoric of the Holocaust advertisement or the Peninsula "special" issue. Indeed, these texts themselves were heavily invested in the "p.c." debate. This debate has opened the flood gates for a covert Right-wing hostility that pretends to operate independently from structures of social, cultural and institutional power. To term an opinion "politically correct" has come to be a power play in itself that delegitimizes the content of the opinion, placing it outside debate and outside what need be debated...
JUST AS THE REASONED grammar of the Holocaust ad, Peninsula and "political correctness" tends to efface individual and personal differences, liberal arguments for multiculturalism have too often emphasized rhetorical strategies that do not translate into substantive reconfigurations of power. As Susan Faludi `81 wrote in The New York Times Magazine this weekend, the writer must "[assert] herself from behind the veil of the printed page." Faludi, a former managing editor of The Crimson and author of Backlash, was calling for public speech that actually touches people and that forces us into the public. As writers, as journalists, such a call...