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Why the left has seized on political correctness and cancel culture

24 July 2020

10:50 AM

24 July 2020

10:50 AM

I first warned about the dangers of political correctness in the early 1990s after reading the American academic Dinesh D’Souza’s book titled Illiberal Education.  As evidence of the increasing prevalence of political correctness D’Souza quotes an academic saying “It is common in universities today to hear talk of politically correct opinions, or PC in short”.

The academic adds “These are questions that are not really open to argument. 

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