It is a measure of our natural deference to America, cultural and military, that when the New York Times rang up and asked for a piece, I was thrilled. So I sat up for an hour or so, cracked out an article on Blair, Bush and Iraq, and fired it off to the charming NY […]
Political Correctness Quotes
A sobering thought is occurring to many on campus: People on the left are now getting caught in the anti-free-speech policies set up in the past 20 years to silence dissent. These speech codes and anti-bias and anti-harassment policies are based on the idea that hurting anyone’s feelings is a form of assault. Universities typically […]
Why book reviewers hate my books: “Because the books are really no good? Perhaps. But I think I’ve got a better explanation. Almost all reviewers, these days, are members of and adherents to some anxious particular sect or faction. I.e., they are lesbians and New Agers or fem-libbers or (even worse) male fem-libbers or technophiles […]
Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing their views on others. It is a heritage of communism, but they don’t seem to see this.
When fraternities, which act as primary residential units for many universities, include and exclude members as they wish, no one labels them champions of political correct, but that is, of course, precisely what they are. It is just that the “politics” by which they are made respectable is too mainstream to attract attention. When the […]
Every sect clamors for toleration when it is down… The doctrine which from the very first origin of religious dissensions, has been held by all bigots of all sects, when condensed into a few words, and stripped of rhetorical disguise, is simply this: I am in the right and you are in the wrong. When […]
Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.
Where women, oops, wopersons, no doubt personsstruate. It’s “The Language Personifesto” and a personsace to society with their personsdacious nonsense! The faculty obviously have lower IQs than Doberperson Pinschers, Gerperson Shepherds and personatees. With that personstality, they should be sent to a personsagerie where they can get treatment for a personstal illness! Would you want […]
Perhaps no wartime U-turn, though, has been more surprising than the conservative wing’s sudden, lusty embrace of political correctness in its effort to stamp out public dissent regarding the war on terrorism. The same right-wing ideologues who spent the last 10 years sounding alarms about the chilling effect of attempts to curb unpopular speech have […]
The pejorative term ‘political correctness’ was adapted to express disapproval of the enlargement of etiquette to cover all people, in spite of this being a principle to which all Americans claim to subscribe.
