Our friend markeris has been going off at this particular subject for a while now -- it makes for some interesting reading if for no other reason than that he lives in a different country so the politics and culture are different.
(See now, there a comment about Romani probably wouldn't have startled me so much. Not sure why.)
Anyway, a lot of his take on it seems to be that PCness is attacking the symptom and not the disease -- instead of asking why certain members of certain groups are perceived in a certain way, there is just a lot of pressure to not to talk about it.
I'm not sure how relevent that observation is to the US. But the whole topic makes me think about how much critisism Donovan Bailey got in Canada for saying in one of his post-Olympic Gold interviews that Canada was a racist culture. Never any honest dialogue over whether or not it was true -- just vitriole that he dared to say it in public.
PC and racism
(See now, there a comment about Romani probably wouldn't have startled me so much. Not sure why.)
Anyway, a lot of his take on it seems to be that PCness is attacking the symptom and not the disease -- instead of asking why certain members of certain groups are perceived in a certain way, there is just a lot of pressure to not to talk about it.
I'm not sure how relevent that observation is to the US. But the whole topic makes me think about how much critisism Donovan Bailey got in Canada for saying in one of his post-Olympic Gold interviews that Canada was a racist culture. Never any honest dialogue over whether or not it was true -- just vitriole that he dared to say it in public.