>From: "Kirsten Neilsen" <kirsten at Infothecary.ORG>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>To: "Lbo-Talk" <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
>Subject: When the Ayes Have It, Is There Room for Naysayers? (and more on
>hitchens)
>Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 12:50:00 -0700
>also this ridiculous swipe at "politically correct" education by some
>guy named david rieff:
Son of Susan Sontag, and author of books on Bosnia and Miami, if memory serves me.
> >> The campuses, once citadels of opposition to military action,
>generally
> >> are quiet, in part, said author and commentator David Rieff, because
>this
> >> generation of students is hamstrung by the "politically correct"
>education
> >> it has received since kindergarten. "The nice kids have been taught
>that
> >> all differences are to be celebrated," said Rieff, currently a
>visiting
> >> professor at UC Berkeley, "and they're in full cognitive meltdown.
>Their
> >> homeroom teachers and guidance counselors never told them that there
>are
> >> people in the world who mean them harm."
*hilarious*. As if it takes *homeroom teachers* to tell you that there are people in the world who mean you harm.
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