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Article: COLUMN: Political correctness poisons free speech
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- University Wire
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- February 2, 1999
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William S. Lind
University Wire
02-02-1999
(Minnesota Daily) (U-WIRE) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. -- Political correctness is intellectual AIDS. Everything it touches, it sickens and eventually kills. On America's college campuses it has diminished freedom of speech, warped curricula, politicized grading and replaced intellectual integrity with vapid sloganeering. In classroom after classroom, professors offer an ideological rant, which students are compelled to regurgitate to get a grade: The vomit returns to the dog. These places -- and they are many -- are no longer universities, but small, ivy-covered North Koreas.
Just what is political correctness? The politically correct people on your campus ...