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...want to help them better use existing data, and enhance training in accumulating data, so these nations can make better decisions about their health programs," said Eliot T. Putnam '61, a deputy director of the project...
Nineteen ninety-one: Time magazine warns that "a growing emphasis on the nation's 'multicultural' heritage exalts racial and ethnic pride at the expense of social cohesion." Nineteen sixty-one: Carleton Putnam warns that "there has been no case in civilization in which the white race has comingled with the black without the resulting degradation of the white civilization...
Thirty years ago, Putnam dwelt on a few professors who felt they couldn't speak freely. He ignored the young activists locked up without trial in a Jackson jail. Today, D'Souza dwells on a few students and professors at a few colleges who feel they can't speak freely. He ignores the founding of a "White Students Association" at Temple University, the race riots at UMass, the fraternity t-shirts at Syracuse whose slogan is "Club faggots, not seals...
...figures involved are different, of course. Putnam's heroes were unabashed racists who probably did face repression on some campuses. D'Souza's heroes are professors like Stephan Thernstrom, who are simply too cowardly to stand up to legitimate criticism of their scholarship, preferring to cancel their courses and then complain of "though control...
...there's another big difference--besides the fact that Carleton Putnam was more honest about his intentions. It's that the anti-PC movement of 1961 ended up losing the battle for public opinion. The anti-PC movement of 1991, on the other hand, seems to be winning...