From: laelth@yabbs
To: Natalie@yabbs
Subject: re: PC
Date: Sun Aug 14 01:14:54 1994
In message 248 Natalie referred to "the blight known as PC ..."

First off, let me say that I hate the term PC.  Some neo-nazi ideologue 
came up with that term in order to give some liberal college professors a 
bad name, and to degrade their thinking, their teaching, and their 
argumentation.  And it worked ... too well.

But since we have no other way to "name" this phenomenon, then we might as 
well call it PC, just so that we can communicate.  Basically, being PC 
means standing up for all the traditionally oppressed groups in our world 
and in our society.  It means defending the rights of women, of 
minorities, of gays, of people with AIDS, people with disabilities, etc.  
Is that such a bad thing?

Of course, most of the attacks against political correctness are masked 
under the guise of protecting freedom of speech.  But let's face it, the 
PC people are liberals.  They'll defend your right to say and to think 
whatever you want.  But what they won't defend is your continuing to 
exploit and oppress the weaker members of our society.  I believe that 
NAZIs have every right to pass out their literature, parade, and get 
attention in any legal way, but I cannot condone racist ACTS.  No more 
lynchings!

It's very easy in our current political climate to be very anti-PC.  But I 
ask you to consider that being anti-PC (for many) means being anti-women, 
anti-minorities, anti-gay, and a lot of other ugly things.  Is that really 
what you want to be?  I mean really, who's the victim here?  Is it the 
poor college student who's challenged by a liberal professor?  Or is it 
women who are raped, African-Americans who are denied quality education, 
gays who are beaten just for being gay, Jews who were gassed by the 
millions this century?  At whom do you want to be angry?

-laelth (a PC prophet)