In answer to the point you make below, Antje, any ideology--whether
you call it Political Correctness or whatever--that is imposed on
anyone is dangerous, no matter how sweet-smelling.  The old joke is
that of the communist who says, "Comes the revolution, everybody will
eat peaches and cream."  Then somebody answers, meekly, and says, "but
I don't LIKE peaches and cream."  Then our communist answers, "You WILL
eat peaches and cream!"
 
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But if we talk about ideology there is actually one thing about American
Universities/society that I don't understand at all (even at the risk of
stirring up a hornet's nest): political correctness and that all these
presumably liberal intellectuals don't see that this is merely ideology at
it's best.
 
Antje Pfannkuchen
 
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