Word: corrects
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Therefore another goal of the committee can be seen: to incite students so heavily that the posters would be removed almost immediately. As a result of the predictable immediate removal, the committee would hope to gain martyr status, become a darling of Harvard's politically correct and wait patiently for students to form the opinion that right here at Harvard, just as in the Occupied Territories, where Palestinian freedom of expression is stifled by the Israelis in power, the discussion of the plight of the Palestinians is being squelched by the agents of the powerful international Jewish conspiracy...
...years ago, Adams House residents replaced the name "Secret Santa" with non-denominational phrases such as "Politically Correct Gift-Givers" and "Incognito Benefactors." That's a little excessive to be sure, but at least these students made an attempt to recognize the fact that there are non-Christians among...
...opinion piece titled "The Myth of `Politically Correct'" [December 11], J.D. Conner does a great disservice to the liberal values which he suggests might be advanced by the person asked whether he or she is "politically correct." It is, as Conner correctly points out, difficult, if not impossible, to find the "tyrants" of political correctness, and most students here at Harvard are commited to an inclusionary atmosphere of discourse...
This, however, does not mean that an atmosphere of "politically correct" views does not dominate, and the problem is that a majority of those conveniently assuming the protection of "political correctness" are unable to defend and advocate the underlying philosophy of liberalism against the attacks of conservatives...
While it may be a myth that there are "agents" of "political correctness" at Harvard, the sooner liberals realize the presence of an atmosphere dominated by "politically correct," the sooner they will be able to rethink and restate the liberal values underlying much of what should happen to be "politically correct" views. Nader Alexander Mousavizadeh...