The Myth Of Political Correctness: The Conservative Attack On Higher Education,New

The Classics Of Western Culture Are Out, Not Being Taught, Replaced By Secondrate And Third World Texts. White Males Are A Victimized Minority On Campuses Across The Country, Thanks To Affirmative Action. Speech Codes Have Silenced Anyone Who Wont Toe The Liberal Line. Feminists, Wielding Their Brand Of Sexual Correctness, Have Taken Over. These Are Among The Prevalent Myths About Higher Education That John K. Wilson Explodes.The Phrase 'Political Correctness' Is On Everyones Lips, On Radio And Television, And In Newspapers And Magazines. The Phenomenon Itself, However, Has Been Deceptively Described. Wilson Steps Into The Nations Favorite Cultural Fray To Reveal That Many Of The Most Widely Publicized Anecdotes About Pc Are In Fact More Myth Than Reality. Based On His Own Experience As A Student And Indepth Research, He Shows Whats Really Going On Beneath The Hysteria And Alarmism About Political Correctness And Finds That The Most Disturbing Examples Of Thought Policing On Campus Have Come From The Right. The Image Of The College Campus As A Gulag Of Leftwing Totalitarianism Is False, Argues Wilson, Created Largely Through The Exaggeration Of Deceptive Stories By Conservatives Who Hypocritically Seek To Silence Their Political Opponents.Many Of Todays Most Controversial Topics Are Here: Multiculturalism, Reverse Discrimination, Speech Codes, Date Rape, And Sexual Harassment. So Are The Wellrecognized Protagonists In The Debate: Dinesh Dsouza, William Bennett, And Lynne Cheney, Among Others. In Lively Fashion And In Meticulous Detail, Wilson Compares Fact To Fiction And Lays One Myth After Another To Rest, Revealing The Double Standard That Allows 'Conservative Correctness' On College Campuses To Go Unchallenged.