PLATFORM : A Proper Struggle
The advocates of what unfortunately has come to be called “political correctness” are generally portrayed as aging radicals of the 1960s whose program of anti-Americanism and anti-capitalism has now found allies among women and minority students.
While there is a small element of truth to this, the advocates of political correctness are more properly regarded as civil-rights workers who have carried the struggle for equality and justice onto college campuses and, particularly, into the classroom. Just as African-Americans fought for places on buses and at lunch counters, today women and minorities are struggling for proper places in textbooks and college curricula so that their travails and achievements might be understood as a central aspect of American experience.
Viewed from this perspective, political correctness is a movement consistent with preceding national efforts of social and cultural change.
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