[goldstategop]

PC has invaded literature and texts have been censored, bowdlerized, and excerpt to purge it of all offending ideas and images because the PC police genuinely believe they're doing a public service and they also think that people (especially minorities) don't want to be exposed to what are regarded as concepts and ideas that insult or degrade their dignity and self-image. If this is what the New York State Education Department is doing with its tests, I'd hate to imagine what the situation must be like in the rest of the country.

[Paul Atreides]

Remember when Winston Smith's colleague was sent to the Ministry of Love because he left the word "God" in a poem?

Newspeak was all about eliminating words that could incite unorthodoxy. That's what P.C. is all about. As in 1984, they are beginning with the children first.

[rwfromkansas]

Maybe I should pick up one of the practice ACT tests and see if they alter their literary selections. I doubt it would go that far since the ACT is produced in Iowa. But, they do tend to have an extremely liberal viewpoint....I about puked when I had to read their crappy reading selections (about touchy feely politically correct nonsense). And then, going to the science part was like being assaulted......they would have evolution in there without fail when they darn well knew not all schools worship the theory. They taught it in my school....as they should....but did not feel the need to make it a god like the ACT and many scientists make it out to be.