[catonsville]

It is the "little Hitlers" syndrome. In this case useless academics, pushing people around to inflate their egos. Even if they have to appear stupid in doing so.

[Hobsonphile]

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[visualops]

Such victim-status politics has given scholarship a bad name and detracted from the higher pursuits that are supposed to the mission of higher education. Let's hope Postal's attack spawns many imitators.

We can always dream.

[Congressman Billybob]

I agree with Mr. Postal's comments. Try this on for size: "One small step for men, women, gays, lesbians, transgendered, and animal lovers. One giant leap for womynkind." Sorta rolls off the tongue, doesn't it?

Congressman Billybob

Latest column, "Paying the Wrong Piper," discussion thread on FR. Article is also on ChronWatch.

[wizardoz]

Holy Cow. I know Colleen Brice. She was probably still a grad student then. She's a nice woman, but.... I mean, always smiles at you in the hallways, when she disagrees, she does so in the politest, gentlest way she can... always notices if you've gotten a haircut or are wearing a new outfit... but I can't say this surprises me. She was in charge of me the first time I taught a Ling 101 class, and it was evident what her politics were. Of course, they were pretty much the same as everyone else in the department.

Ling departments are notorious for being ridden with women who wear long dresses and flat sandals, dangly earrings but little make-up, and own lots of cats. But every department has its flavor.

Sociology departments have much more butch women, fat, with mullets.

Anthropology departments feature long haired men who have dogs, and don't bathe.

Philosophy departments also require men to have a ponytail, but they don't have as many dogs and don't smell quite so bad.

English departments feature much more middle-class, soft looking lefties.

And of course, in Engineering everyone's Indian and in Computer Science, they're all Asian. You can tell what department you are walking through by the hair and the smell, I'm tellin' ya.

[Verginius Rufus]

Well, well, what a coincidence. French general Paul Aussaresses just happens to be mentioned in an article in today's Wall Street Journal about Chile ("What Really Happened in Chile 30 Years Ago," by James R. Whelan, on page A11):

"...French secret service agents who had waged France's savage war in the 1950s against Algerian independence forces coached secret police organizations in Chile--and also Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay. The man who headed Chile's secret police, Manuel Contreras, said recently that Gen. Paul Aussaresses, former head of the French intelligence service, personally trained Chilean agents in Brazil. In his monumental work, 'Modern Times,' historian Paul Johnson wrote that the French terror units headed by Gen. Aussaresses 'murdered and tortured prisoners, and on a wide scale. In this case, neither liberal France nor the international community raised a whimper of protest.'"

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Indeed, these textbooks, which go back as far as 1969, should have shown more sensitivity when it comes to the recognition of gay feelings.

Doesn't going back to that year, and no further, show an oralsexist bias?

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Sometimes the efforts to ward off stereotypes become just nonsensical, as when the authors complain that men appear too often with cars and that they are always the ones fixing them. "No females fix cars in any of the ten textbooks, while 53 males do so."

So, let's hear it: how many women reading this post want to become auto mechanics?

[WOSG]

Another point: The same underlying 'impulse' for this linguistic code is the one animating the 'hate speech' codes.

Many EU places (and canada) have now implemented so-called "hate speech" laws, and invariably they are letting real hate-mongers (Villepan!) go while some reasoned people who express strong moral convictions at variance with PC dogma are jailed merely fo expressing views. In short, 'hate speech' codes attack freedom of speech. The LSA codes do the same wrt academic freedom of expression.

[monkey]

Language is organic, not prescribed. And it is complete. If it is stifled in one place, it will billow out in another. Note teenage girl's use of "gay" to mean dysfunctional, impaired - queer.

Language changes, but it follows the culture. One might ask what political correctness has to do with linguistics (the study of language).