important left terms, the opposite of reactionary. It was the bourgeois media who first started up disdain for the terms when it was a left usage. We took it instead of "you are right" , because of course "right" has the
double meaning of "rightwing" and "correct". Criticizing it gives aid and comfort to the rightwing who have disdain for it.
For example , what is it that Carrol is arguing for but something he thinks is correct above ?
Charles
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 10:04 AM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
> I believe I have responded negatively, I hope in fact I have responded
> quite
> nastily, to anyone on this list who used the term "political correctness."
> My position was that the term could not be separated from reactionary
> politics, and for leftists to use it (in any tone) was to give aid and
> comfort to the enemy. Sometimes language can be resisted, thereby wrenching
> a term from its established meaning, but this is not true of the term
> "political correctness." It is impossible to empty it of reactionary
> import.
>
> >From Harper's weekly review:
>
> ... and a federal judge ruled that the stop-and-frisk tactics employed by
> the New York City Police Department amount to racial profiling and violate
> the Constitution. "When it comes to policing," said Mayor Michael
> Bloomberg,
> who opposed the decision, "political correctness is deadly."
>
> That is (as it were) the _correct_ use of the term, and any leftists who
> uses the term gives aid and comfort to those who, like Bloomberg, use it
> for
> really vicious purposes.
>
> Carrol
>
>
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