Word: mccarthyism
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...arguments of the Left by presenting a well-reasoned position, defending it to the best of their ability, and logically dissecting their opposition. It is only in this manner that the orthodoxy of "political correctness" will fall. Only then will we be able to bid farewell to the intellectual McCarthyism of the extreme Left and welcome reason and rational arguments to everyday campus discourse...
Gordon said that sending copies of the letters to all law school students was tantamount to McCarthyism...
Something had to replace the threat of communism, and at last a workable substitute is at hand. "Multiculturalism," as the new menace is known, has been denounced in the media recently as the new McCarthyism, the new fundamentalism, even the new totalitarianism -- take your choice. According to its critics, who include a flock of tenured conservative scholars, multiculturalism aims to toss out what it sees as the Eurocentric bias in education and replace Plato with Ntozake Shange and traditional math with the Yoruba number system. And that's just the beginning. The Jacobins of the multiculturalist movement, who are described...
...flyer distributed for Junior Parents' Weekend, members of the Peninsula, The Harvard Conservative Club, the Harvard Republican Club and the Association Against Learning in the Absence of Religion and Morality (AALARM) located this new McCarthyism in the phenomenon they call "Political Correctness"--commonly referred...
...course, as many historians are quick to point out, there was a certain level of legitimate concern about Soviet spies in post--World War II United States. But what McCarthyism did was to take that legitimate concern and turn it into a full-scale witch hunt...