Key elements of the 1990s moral panic about political correctness hold today:
*unrepresentative and misleading anecdotes
*conservatives and powerful portraying themselves as victims
*donor-funded conservative setting the narrative for mainstream media
*Dines D'Souza
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The biggest difference between the 1990s PC moral panic and today is that the attacks on campus are no longer rhetorical; conservative legislators are more comfortable using state power to act on this nonsense, praising free speech while shutting it downhttps://twitter.com/donmoyn/status/1374756848952340483?s=20 …
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This is not to say that legislators in the 1990s saw themselves as above the fray - but my sense is there is not the same wave of copycat legislation where the take control of governance of campus speech that we see today. https://twitter.com/RottenInDenmark/status/1383202744362672128?s=20 …
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The hosts say that political correctness was essentially a figment of the imagination of conservatives that was all based on anecdotes, but the way the hosts make their argument is with..anecdotes. The hosts are charming but this felt like preaching to the choir.
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Isn’t just this all part of a much longer ongoing strain of campus as conservative battleground of ideas? Cf Young Americans for Freedomhttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom …
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