The Origins of Political Correctness

An Accuracy in Academia Address by Bill Lind

Variations of this speech have been delivered to various AIA conferences
including the 2000 Consevative University at American University

Where does all this stuff that you’ve heard about this morning – the
victim feminism, the gay rights movement, the invented statistics, the
rewritten history, the lies, the demands, all the rest of it – where
does it come from? For the first time in our history, Americans have to
be fearful of what they say, of what they write, and of what they think.
They have to be afraid of using the wrong word, a word denounced as
offensive or insensitive, or racist, sexist, or homophobic.

We have seen other countries, particularly in this century, where
this has been the case. And we have always regarded them with a mixture
of pity, and to be truthful, some amusement, because it has struck us as
so strange that people would allow a situation to develop where they
would be afraid of what words they used. But we now have this situation
in this country. We have it primarily on college campuses, but it is
spreading throughout the whole society. Were does it come from? What is it?

"Roy Jose Lorr" comcast.net> wrote in message
news:8fmdnSPcCJZ-Ri3anZ2dnUVZ_sytnZ2d@comcast.com...

Miller wrote:

Some are correct, like me, and some are incorrect, like you.

Get used to it.

Bret Cahill

In article <8fmdnSPcCJZ-Ri3anZ2dnUVZ_sytnZ2d@comcast.com>,
Roy Jose Lorr comcast.net> wrote:

On Feb 11, 9:36 pm, dmca...@remulak.uwaterloo.ca (David Canzi -- non-
mailable) wrote:

A Republican, for sure, but the name won't come. Mc... McC... hmmmm,
McClain maybe?

:-)

Jenny

Joe?

Bret Cahill

David Canzi -- non-mailable wrote:

Jenny6833A wrote:

Yep, the manchurian candidate.

Bret Cahill wrote:

... Uncle Joe. Your hero.