From: David Buchanan (DBuchanan@ClassicalRadio.org)
Date: Sun Sep 05 2004 - 01:36:11 BST
Ant and all McMOQers:
Ant McWatt said:
Just to add to David's comment here, I would certainly be interested in
discovering the history of the term "political correctness". As a student
of mine once remarked, it was probably just invented by a spin-doctor with
right-wing sympathies to undermine non-conservative views. It is a process
of stigmatisation employed by politicians or other commentators to avoid
having a full and proper debate with views they seek to denigrate. As such,
I'd definitely agree with the sentiment that the use of the term "political
correctness" is a blight on [the] intellect.
dmb says:
As I understand it, leftists used the phrase to mock themselves and each
other and then it was picked up and blown out of all proportion by their
critics on the right, who liked to construe political correctness as the new
McCarthyism.
Ant said:
For anyone who wants to explore further this "angry-white-men" thing with
being "PC" may I recommend Michael Moore's "Stupid White Men" published by
Penguin in 2001 and my present read of choice, Bill Hick's "Love All the
People" (published this year) which contains a number of his previously
unpublished letters and manuscripts...
dmb says:
Bill Hicks is a genius. The best comics in the world are shallow cowards
compared to him - and they'll be the first to tell you that. He's a comic's
comic. I can't heap enough praise and I'm glad to know you like him too. But
if you're interested in a more scholarly look at the PC wars and the whole
angry-white-guy thing, there is Russell Jacoby's DOGMATIC WISDOM. As an
Intellectual Historian, his book intelligently puts the clash in the context
of multiculturalism and competition on campus.
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