In the opening sentence of a key chapter in his new book on the academy, “
No University Is an Island: Saving Academic Freedom,” Cary Nelson, president of the American Association of University Professors and a self-identified leftist, makes an important, and conciliatory, point: “Although few students or faculty on American campuses who are on either the right or the left …are inclined to acknowledge each other’s perspective, members of both groups feel beleaguered, isolated, outcast and underrepresented in their higher education environments.” Later in the chapter Nelson allows that while political correctness is not the “all defining campus cultural force the right makes it out to be, it does operate, in some contexts absurdly.” Read more at:
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/30/political-correctness-revisited-views-from-both-sides/?th&emc=th
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