"After political correctness burst onto the academic scene in the late
’80s and early ’90s, it went into a long remission. Now it has returned.
Some of its expressions have a familiar tint, like the protesting of
even mildly controversial speakers on college campuses.....At a growing number of campuses, professors now attach “trigger
warnings” to texts that may upset students, and there is a campaign to
eradicate “microaggressions,” or small social slights that might cause
searing trauma. These newly fashionable terms merely repackage a central
tenet of the first p.c. movement: that people should be expected to
treat even faintly unpleasant ideas or behaviors as full-scale offenses"
NOT A VERY P.C. THING TO SAY:
How the language police are perverting Liberalism
by Johnathan Chait
Thursday, March 26, 2015
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