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To: greenspirit who wrote (53577)	8/31/1999 1:18:00 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

It is in a way fascinating to see how various forms of extremists express their extremism. The left seems much devoted to the PC stuff, which seems mainly oriented toward public speech; the religious right prefers to remove ideas entirely from the written culture by banning books from libraries and schools, driving disapproved teachings out of curricula, etc. From this I draw no conclusion. I am almost getting curious enough, though, to write an e-mail to my numerous relatives in academe to ask what they think of the whole PC thing. Not that it would "prove" anything, but I do value their opinions, since none of them are remotely PC and all have been in the University world for decades. I have heard them joke about it; I'm curious to know if it is something they see as a lot of shouting with no substance or a real influence on their academic lives. Maybe if/when they answer I'll have an opinion to fling around here. I have yet to encounter an exponent of political correctness on SI. Quite the opposite, in fact: ideas perceived as "PC" are frequently denounced on that basis alone. I wouldn't claim to have much perspective on the actual impact of the PC movement on self-expression in the US, since I don't live there. In the slices of American culture with which I interact I see little impact. Here, fortunately, no impact at all, unless you hang with lefties.