Monday, January 18, 2010

FLASHPOINT: ‘Political correctness’ is in eye of the beholder

This letter has interesting examples of all the intolerance that we have had in this country since it started. - - Donna Poisl

by Khwaja A. Hasan

Many letters to the editor writers in this newspaper have complained about politically incorrect language, ideas or policies as if the phrase curtails their freedom to express themselves.

Political culture over time always had a bipolar personality — tolerant and intolerant, inclusive and exclusionary. Didn’t the Puritans in Colonial times in Boston hang signs proclaiming, “No Irish need apply,” and laws prohibited Chinese immigrants from becoming citizens?

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