Word: pc
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...other words, Plotz and others utilize the same rhetoric that they deride. By lumping students into a silent majority, they effectively silence that majority. The only people who are left with any real opinions at all are the "PC ideologues," the "oppressed conservatives" reading National Review in Lamont and campus critics such as David Plotz...
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...problem is that once you have asked someone "Are you PC?" they can't be anymore. The question is equivalent to "Why don't you think?" In formulating an answer, any answer, the respondent has become someone with a reasoned, perhaps a liberal, view...
...unworthy or stupid. And it doesn't mean they are totalitarian. Instead, they happen to hold the majority view that is worthy of respect. They are people worthy of being asked not "Why don't you think?" but "What do you think?" In asking this, we have moved beyond PC...
When the inquest finally comes, and all the questions are asked, and all the answers are given, don't be surprised if the PC body turns up lost...