University Political Correctness: Inevitable or Just Irritating?
December 16th, 2009
George Leef reviews a book on the always irritating problem of political correctness. Personally, I am very grateful to: 1. My husband for getting me out of academics and supporting me while I raised our kids and 2. the Ruth Institute supporters who allow me to do out-of-the-box thinking, to search for other intellectuals who do the same, and to bring our counter-cultural pro-marriage message to college students. We literally could not do this on an ordinary university campus. The campus pressures to conform both socially and intellectually, are simply enormous.
Categories: Political Correctness, Ruth Institute
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PC is likely a direct outgrowth of anti-discrimination laws, broadly applied. The threat of a loss of government funds, private grants, or lawsuits is too great, so an entire diversity office bureaucracy must be created to guard (and re-educate) the school.
This also explains why many religious universities are now orthodox multiculturalist, since they too are affected by local anti-discrimination laws. How better could a movement decapitate its intellectual opposition?
Just speak the truth. If the shoe fits… Today the cancer invades all, even the church, our universitties. We often have to bypass clogged arteries and infected institutions. My wife and I are celebrating our golden wedding aniversary despite bearing each other as a Cross for all these years. The nature of the suffering changes, but the tribulation gives us the opportunity to learn patience, patience breeds fortitude, then comes a conficent hope, which in the end leads to loyal fidelity, which is the esence of love.
PC would keep us from proclaiming that this is the only true way to happiness.