[lbo-talk] Definition of "Political Correctness"

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Tue Aug 14 14:57:49 PDT 2007


Chris Doss wrote:
>
> --- Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> wrote:
> I am criticizing
> > the US political culture
> > in general, left or right, for being overly
> > sanctimonious and holier than
> > thou in its rhetoric.
>
> I have noticed this phenomenon myself. If you read the
> archives of a lot of purportedly left lists, you get
> the idea that they think of themselves as an bastion
> of goodness surrounded by evil "scumbags,"

You and Wojtek both are spinning naked lies for which you could give no support whatever. Examples don't count. You have to somehow establish that X characterizes some list _as a whole_.

I won't be reading replies. They will just be more defenses of naked bigotry disguised as "bold independence."

Carrol



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