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Much of the evidence that has surfaced in support of theories of pc-totalitarianism has been drawn from a particular anecdote involving Harvard historian Stephan Thernstrom. According to Dinesh D' Souza, author of Illiberal Education, the anti-pc manifesto, three Black students charged Thernstrom with racial insensitivity in his use of slave owners' journals in teaching American history. The students, as the story goes, did not confront Thernstrom, but rather went to the administration and to The Crimson. Thernstrom, without a chance to defend himself, was branded a racist. But in this week's Nation, Jon Wiener claims to present...
...fact, almost every element of the story D' Souza tells is erroneous. "I talked with one of the students who had complained about Thernstrom," says Orlando Patterson, professor of sociology at Harvard. "She was genuinely upset about one of his lectures. This was not an ideological reaction, it was a personal and emotional one. She said she did not want to make it a political issue, and had deliberately rejected attempts by more political students to make it into a cause. She was trembling with rage at the Crimson for making this public...
Paula Ford is one of the students who complained about Thernstrom; today she is enrolled at Harvard Law School. D'Souza never interviewed her, she says. Although he reported that the students never complained directly to Thernstrom, she says she and several of her friends talked to Thernstrom after class "a couple of times"-especially after his lecture on the black family...
Besides attacking the NAS, the group's prospectus criticized Dinesh D'Souza, author of Illiberal Education and National Endowment for the Humanities Chair Lynn V. Cheney, accusing them of "blatant hypocrisy" and intolerance...
BOOKS Dinesh D'Souza fails to make the grade in Illiberal Education...