tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post1245732521739855752..comments2024-03-28T21:32:26.550+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: Why is political correctness utterly immune to evidence?Bruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-62540362166548150032016-05-17T22:16:43.588+01:002016-05-17T22:16:43.588+01:00@MH - I can't explain briefly - but wrote a bo...@MH - I can't explain briefly - but wrote a book about this:<br /><br />http://thoughtprison-pc.blogspot.co.ukBruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-76181856906658695972016-05-17T20:19:49.942+01:002016-05-17T20:19:49.942+01:00Professor Charlton,
Thank you for this insightful...Professor Charlton,<br /><br />Thank you for this insightful essay. At a key point, however, you dropped in an expression that I find impenetrable and it seems to be a key to understanding your full argument.<br /><br />Could you elaborate or restate the following point?<br /><br />PC is concerned exclusively with material proxy-measures of its abstractions. . .That is the distinctive move which set-apart PC from any preceding ideology.<br /><br />Thanks,<br /><br />MHMike H.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-14255454576434155712010-11-20T05:30:17.095+00:002010-11-20T05:30:17.095+00:00This is a problem caused by the evolution of "...This is a problem caused by the evolution of "education". Or devolution. <br /><br />In 1940, the average American had an eighth grade education. Are Americans more educated now? Certainly we are more highly mis-educated. <br /><br />Tocqueville described Americans as the most educated people on earth, where no one was highly educated, but almost all were literate, taking schooling for a few years when it was available, and otherwise learning through the bible and the stray volume of Shakespeare; reading periodicals and newspapers, and obtaining the habit of working from an early age. <br /><br />Constantly increasing the years of compulsory education did not bring more education, but much less. And as more students attended school for longer periods of time, the schools and the teachers became leading partners in this egalitarian model of failure. <br /><br />Never mind the students; sent to meet this false need were vastly expanded numbers of teachers and professors that should never have been permitted to represent civilization, and they know to what they owe their white collar. PC is their friend and guarantor. They fear competition, choice, and liberty in every form.xlbrlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01931950075332608449noreply@blogger.com