[lbo-talk] Mailer bloviates

[ravi]

Chip Berlet wrote:
> The frame of "Political Correctness" as currently used was an invention
> of conservatives around 1990. It was developed as a way to criticize
> multiculturalism and curricula revisions on college campuses.  
> 
> As a frame, "Political Correctness" merges:
> 
> 1) legitimate concerns about censorship and attempts to limit the
> boundaries of language and debate 
> 
> with 
> 
> 2) a hidden critique that implies that there is no merit to all claims
> that there are unresolved issues relating to race and gender and how
> power and privilege are allocated in the society; and all attempots to
> find language that is not offensive.
> 
> Progressives should think twice before using the term, and should at
> least not get sucker punched by not being aware of the roots of its
> current usage.
> 

the good thing about falling behind in my mailreading is that for the 
stuff that gets me angry/excited, further down the thread, someone 
usually has said what i would've liked to say, most often much better 
than i could have said it. thanks for the above,

	--ravi