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- From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
- Subject: Today's Quote...
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- --"[P]olitical correctness" does not exist, and has never existed, as
- a body of political ideas. It is not an ideology, like socialism,
- liberalism, 0 or nationalism, nor is it an organized (or disorganized)
- social movement. Nor is it a world view, a moral philosophy, a
- partisan organization, an intellectual trend, or even an academic
- faction. As a description of political ideas, "political correctness"
- expresses, literally, nothing. It is an empty vessel of a signifer
- into which meaning is poured on a purely expedient and ad hominem
- basis." "Enforcers of today's brittle status quo now employ
- "politically correct" to describe any political position which
- disputes the soundness of economic life, the validity of the assertion
- that racism and sexism no longer influence our society, the
- infallibility of corporate power, the nobility of right-wing culture,
- the value of militarism, or the wisdom of any given policy of the
- Reagan-Bush tenure."
-
- --Jamin Raskin, from "The Fallacies of
- 'Political Correctness'" in January Z.
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