16. My problem with anti-PC arguments is not that they are wrong but they are radically incomplete. They see PC in isolation of society
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17. In typical anti-PC tracts (see
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18. But if you look at how pervasive fear-mongering is in broader culture, PC students looking for safe space are hardly exceptional.
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19. One way to understand PC is that students (often from non-elite background) go to college & want what elites the meet have: safe spaces
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20. More broadly, anti-PC narrative sees mainstream America as pro-free speech and radical undergrads as "illiberal threat"
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21. But historically speaking, mainstream America -- including liberals -- hasn't been pro-free speech & has often been fearful & illiberal
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22. McCarthyism had broad public support (including often active co-operation by Cold War liberal).
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23. William Sullivan, the J. Edgar Hoover henchman who spied on Martin Luther King & harassed him, was a liberal Democrat.
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24. This is not to say PC is okay, but if you want to attack the culture of fear it springs from, maybe look in a mirror.
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@ProfessorEmily Yeah, PC means Politically Correct.
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