Quote for 2008-07-18

[ri...@math.missouri.edu]

--"[P]olitical correctness" does not exist, and has never existed, as
a body of political ideas. It is not an ideology, like socialism,
liberalism, or nationalism, nor is it an organized (or disorganized)
social movement. Nor is it a world view, a moral philosophy, a
partisan organization, an intellectual trend, or even an academic
faction. As a description of political ideas, "political correctness"
expresses, literally, nothing. It is an empty vessel of a signifer
into which meaning is poured on a purely expedient and ad hominem
basis." "Enforcers of today's brittle status quo now employ
"politically correct" to describe any political position which
disputes the soundness of economic life, the validity of the assertion
that racism and sexism no longer influence our society, the
infallibility of corporate power, the nobility of right-wing culture,
the value of militarism, or the wisdom of any given policy of the
Reagan-Bush tenure."

--Jamin Raskin, from "The Fallacies of
'Political Correctness'" in January Z.

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