The East Germany of Our Souls

Opinion Journal ^ | 06/14/2002 | DANIEL HENNINGER

[Pokey78]

Ten years after, writers get word of the PC wars.

"It is the practice of fools."

This was the rather unhedged opinion of a humanities professor at Columbia University last week in the now famous flap over New York State's ludicrous bowdlerizing of literary excerpts on standardized tests. Most everyone has heard by now of how the state's bureaucrats felt that no student should be "uncomfortable in a testing situation," and so when the Nobel Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer writes "most Jewish women," the state ensures that the potentially discomfited teenagers instead read, "most women." Any offense imaginable was deleted from the exams.

[Arkinsaw]

Welcome to the East Germany of the soul.

Worth remembering.

[Mo1]

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[ozzymandus]

Leftists really squeal when their chickens come home, don't they? They whine about "profiling", and then they whine about old ladies being searched at airports.

[lavaroise]

I know a lot of leftists and liberals who whine at feminists, especialy amongst men. Yet these idiots keep voting for the left and gay rights... go figure. It's all PC psychological blackmail.

[aristeides]

With any luck, this war will spell the death of PC.