Word: mccarthyism
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...early, too ! often and with too many people." In the House, California Republican William Dannemeyer proposed an amendment to the NIH appropriations bill that would prohibit federal funding for future sex surveys, while Colorado Democrat Patricia Schroeder called the cancellation of the study "nothing less than medical McCarthyism...
Unlike the Energizer Rabbit--who walks funny and wears cool shades--the PC debate has become intensely dull. Right-wing ideologues accuse the "PC thought police" of baseless name-calling, intolerance, self-righteousness and McCarthyism. Left-wing ideologues accuse the right-wingers of--you guessed it--baseless name-calling, intolerance, self-righteousness and McCarthyism...
...opponents say that while political correctness resembles McCarthyism, PC is an internal movement to oppress, while McCarthyism was external to the universities...
...During McCarthyism, I didn't see any case of a professor being called before a committee because of what he said in class," says Thernstrom. "People got in trouble because of their political involvement in private life...It did not affect the daily life of the university...
Wilson, agrees and says PC is just another name for McCarthyism...