Focus (Forum & Focus)
Jan. 12, 2008
Stifling Discourse
Forum Column - By Richard Brent Reed - Society's preoccupation with political correctness is stifling useful social dialogue.
By Richard Brent Reed
This article appears on Page 6.
Common sense is treated like a social disease nowadays and those who possess it are subject to political correction. Giving offense is the new taboo, as evidenced by the following:
In January 2005, President Summers of Harvard was denounced by 50 of his professors for suggesting gender difference in the sciences (he re...
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