2PC4U. The campus debate over multiculturalism is being joined outside the halls of ivy, giving proof that what thrives in darkness withers in the light. Attacks on “politically correct” (PC) thinking have appeared in the New York Times, Newsweek, and, most recently and most notably, New York magazine. Liberal commentators writing in liberal publications are expressing their disgust with the new academic theology that they—and its practitioners—readily admit is essentially the Marxism discredited everywhere else in the world. I’ll hazard the opinion that this liberal reaction against PC-ness is the revival of the traditional recognition of liberalism’s Western roots. Diversity is not truth.
John Taylor’s remarkable New York cover story, “Are You Politically Correct?” (Jan. 21) might as easily have appeared in NR. I asked Mr. Taylor if the PCs have begun demanding his reeducation. “Not yet,” he told me. “So far I’ve received positive comments, although the joke at New York is we won’t be surprised if some gender feminists chain themselves to my desk.”
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