By John Lea
What number occasions have you ever heard the word: `it’s all political correctness long past mad!’ Do you ever ponder whether schools and universities are fairly awash with trivial issues concerning the use of language or whether or not they are literally attempting to handle severe issues approximately discrimination and harassment? have you desired to resolve what all of the fuss is set? This ebook is the 1st significant learn of political correctness in put up obligatory schooling to be released within the united kingdom. For readers within the united kingdom strange with the character of the controversies in US university campuses this publication bargains a finished evaluation of the foremost issues, together with who and what was once at the back of key campaigns. For readers within the US surprising with how this cultural export has faired within the united kingdom this ebook appears on the major similarities and adjustments within the ways in which the word has been utilized in either societies. except addressing the roots of political correctness the booklet seeks to teach how the word has helped to complicate the normal obstacles among these at the political Left and people at the political correct. The ebook additionally demonstrates in transparent phrases how the word is quintessential to realizing key subject matters in cultural conception, corresponding to postmodernism and identification politics. This e-book is meant to be of curiosity to a few readers: academics operating in schools and universities; instructor educators and pupil academics engaged on programmes of preliminary instructor schooling; scholars learning undergraduate programmes in comparative politics and/or sociology and cultural experiences eventually, the ebook will search to catch the reflections of popular lecturers and educationalists bon each side of the Atlantic, who've labored in environments the place the word has impinged on points in their paintings over the past twenty 5 years. in case you imagine that `political correctness’ easily quantities to what jokes you're allowed to inform in a school room, confidently this e-book will problem you to re-evaluate.
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The point is a simple 20 • Political correctness and higher education one: if the First Amendment (‘government shall pass no law that inhibits the freedom of speech’) is a fundamental principle then anyone who would dare to interfere with it can be easily castigated as un-American. PC has been tarred with this brush on many occasions, and the irony that it is in universities where there have been the most reported restrictions on free speech has not been lost. However, some authors have sought to rise to this challenge: racist slurs do not serve any First Amendment purposes: they contribute little to self-realization, to dialogue on important matters of public policy, or to the discovery of truth.
Perhaps not surprisingly she was criticized at the time for the manner of her argument throughout the text (Lazare 1997). She dismisses the ideas of Stanley Fish, who, at the time, was defending restrictions on speech on the grounds that, in reality, free speech only protects the rich and powerful: ‘the first amendment is the first refuge of scoundrels’ (Fish 1994), and proceeds to give examples of double standards. Essentially this amounts to saying that when some groups speak out against others they are celebrated for doing so, but when others do so they are castigated.
A key feature of the second section will be to argue that PC debate in Britain seems to be much more in keeping with some of the more traditional notions of PC – that is the politics and correctness involved in establishing orthodoxies. Indeed, one possible explanation of why the literature base on PC is so great in the US is because much of that literature is an attempt to redefine, or perhaps better, to reorient the term in order that it be marshalled to defend a particular kind of higher education and form of wider social solidarity.