On Political Correctness
On Political Correctness in Universities:
” …The purpose of a liberal education is to enable young people to transcend the unique circumstances of their individual lives and become rational creatures capable of thinking for themselves. Universities aren’t there to hold up mirrors to students, affirming their identity as women or homosexuals or African-Americans. They’re there to challenge them, to teach them that these arbitrary facts about themselves are irrelevant when it comes to answering the most important question of all: How to lead a good life?”
Toby Young in “How to lose friends and alienate people” paraphrasing Tocqueville.
February 8th, 2006 at 2:23 pm
PC is about the ability to absorb the dialectic without distraction, dissent or intrusion of reality. The definition of “dialectic” having been long since abandoned as the search for truth via opposing arguments, in favor of self-evident (and imagined) truth as dogma.