NEW BOOK ON POLITICAL CORRECTNESS


I have just received a review copy of A reader for the politically incorrect by George Zilbergeld (Published 2003 by Praeger of 88 Post Road West, Westport, CT, 06881 -- www.praeger.com -- 176pp, paperbound).

It is a great book both for exposing and explaining what PC is doing and providing the non-PC side of the story on a lot of issues. One hopes that some of the less fanatical colleges will set it as a textbook for their students out of some residual notion of fairness and balance. And if you have a college student in your family, buy a copy and donate it to him/her. I reproduce below the opening page:

“The term "politically correct" (PC) was first used by supporters of the Communist Revolution in Russia. They decided that it would be politically incorrect to speak up about the mass murders being committed by the revolutionary government, since doing so would give comfort to the enemies of the revolution. To be politically correct was to support the promised goal of absolute equality, even if the means included mass murder.

Today being politically correct does not include tolerating mass murder, bit it does include the same willingness to destroy Western civilization in order to build a more perfect world. It also involves a similar belief in the need for a self-elected elite vanguard to lead the way to this perfect future.

Current political correctness is based on the belief that liberty, until now the prime value of Western civilization, must be supplanted by a new prime value -- equality. Unlike the old revolutionaries, the new politically correct revolutionaries no longer believe that the old strategy of a violent overthrow of our government is necessary. The PC much prefer a march through the institutions of the judiciary, the bureaucracy, and, above all, the educational system. The PC believe that they will soon dominate enough of the country to complete the changes needed to create a new and better world.

The PC establishment has created an atmosphere on many college campuses and elsewhere that squelches debate on many important academic and political topics. This viewpoint has completely altered the nature of college education, making most colleges separate communities that view themselves as morally superior.... “