From: ml (mbtlehn@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Sun Sep 05 2004 - 09:10:20 BST
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Buchanan" <DBuchanan@ClassicalRadio.org>
To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 04, 2004 6:36 PM
Subject: RE: MD Political Correctness
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dmb says:
As I understand it, leftists used the phrase to mock themselves and each
other and then it was picked up and blown out of all proportion by their
critics on the right, who liked to construe political correctness as the new
McCarthyism.
mel:
Ah there's nothing like the rhetoric of two groups of Liberals
in an argument, the Classical Liberals in the White House
and the Progressive Liberals on the outside.
Ant said:
For anyone who wants to explore further this "angry-white-men" thing with
being "PC" may I recommend Michael Moore's "Stupid White Men" published by
Penguin in 2001 and my present read of choice, Bill Hick's "Love All the
People" (published this year) which contains a number of his previously
unpublished letters and manuscripts...
mel:
Is the "Stupid White Men" work significantly better than his
other stuff? I just can get what the appeal is, he demonstrates
less intellectual rigor than Joe Piscipo with less dignity and
graciousness than Andrew Dice Clay at a funeral. It is like
drinking warm, flat diet soda...not worth the effort (and very little
at that)
> dmb says:
> Bill Hicks is a genius. The best comics in the world are shallow cowards
> compared to him - and they'll be the first to tell you that. He's a
comic's
> comic. I can't heap enough praise and I'm glad to know you like him too.
But
> if you're interested in a more scholarly look at the PC wars and the whole
> angry-white-guy thing, there is Russell Jacoby's DOGMATIC WISDOM. As an
> Intellectual Historian, his book intelligently puts the clash in the
context
> of multiculturalism and competition on campus.
mel:
Never heard of Bill Hicks, but if he can match or
exceed Stephen Wright, I'm interested.
thanks--mel
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