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“The Campaign Against Political Correctness: What’s Really at Stake?”

The Wabash Center

Author
Scott, Joan Wallach
Publisher
Change Nov/Dec (1991): 30-43
Examines the defense of orthodoxy and the campaign against political correctness on university campuses in the United States. Dangers of a conservative agenda; Analysis of paranoia, fetishism, and impostors among leaders attacking political correctness; Anti-intellectualism in U.S. life; Discrediting of critical efforts by conservatives; Role of diversity of students on college campuses in conflict; Individualism and political correctness; Change in idea of community.