----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> To: "lbo-talk" <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 10:15 AM Subject: [lbo-talk] Mailer bloviates
> New York Post [Page Six] - July 1, 2005
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> MAILER RIPS 'TOXIC' P.C.
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> NORMAN Mailer - attacked as a "racist" by Asian American Journalist
> Association head Esther Wu after he called Times reviewer Michiko
> Kakutani an "Asiatic, feminist . . . twofer . . . token" - tells PAGE
> SIX: "While my quarrel is with Kakutani, not Esther Wu, I will remark
> that political correctness is a toxic to American freedom. Over the
> last 20 years, it has certainly leeched out much of the initiative
> and integrity of the Democratic Party. I would go so far as to say
> that political correctness is totalitarian. It violates the old
> American liberty that you can make up your own mind, and then, even
> better, proceed to change it. That freedom is worth more to a good
> many of us than being told what we can say and not say. So, the
> Republicans, despite their endless catalog of evasions and
> hypocrisies, have profited from the ideological dead weight that
> liberals have taken on. As for being a racist, or next door to one,
> my response is not printable."
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