Comments on: More Political-Correctness—Another exchange with the Monterey Herald

By: Dubrovnov

Dubrovnov — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 02:12:49 +0000

I didn’t know that they offered those courses so close to home (Monterey CA). Why then would anyone have to go to Harvard or Yale to get a good education?

By: steve

steve — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 14:27:46 +0000

Hippies! Who cares what hippies think?

By: ET

ET — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 06:31:18 +0000

The paper’s strategy seems to be denying the obvious – that is, ignoring completely the larger point – which is a good metaphor for the media at large’s “Coverage” of the Obama campaign. A reporter knows how to present the story he wants to tell, even if this process is subconscious.

In cases as glaring as this, it’s only possible that the authors are either disingenuous, or mentally deficient – and the latter would probably be less harmful to the process of general discours – but it is most certainly the former 99% of the time.

By: 49erDweet

49erDweet — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 00:08:07 +0000

Because of its belief system maybe as ~Paules seems to imply it should be renamed California Seminary Unaffiliated, Monterey Bay.

As a resident near “feel good about myself CalState” I can only second VDH’s reading of the situation. Except he is being too easy on them. This particular campus is completely attuned to “victims” of whitey’s systems, and persons without color need not apply. If enrolled, they will not be noticed or encouraged. It must be in somewhere in the charter.

As for the MCH’s editorial staff, their world view triangulate’s from the Bixby Bridge to Moss Landing Harbor, both on the Hwy 1 corridor, and Laguna Seca Raceway on Hwy 68. Nothing outside those lines are worth noting unless Hollywood stars are involved.

By: CalifGirlInMaine

CalifGirlInMaine — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 21:04:25 +0000

I was born in southern Calif. in the mid-20th cent., lived there my entire life until the year 2000, when I moved to Maine. I agree with you that many things in Calif. have changed over the last decades, and NOT for the better. Before I moved, I knew many people who talked about and wanted to leave Calif. because of the changes and the problems in the state and its society. If the Monterey County Herald writer cannot see this, he* is either blind or stupid, or both.
*(non-PC but grammatically correct, the writer could be a woman)

By: Ron Kean

Ron Kean — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:10:44 +0000

Dear Professor,

I pity that newspaper.

If they would run your essays their circulation would increase.

By: Doc

Doc — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 23:19:27 +0000

Every day I have to walk Market Street to get to and from work. It is filthy and every ten paces there is someone begging for money. Makes the bums of “Cannery Row” look like, er, journalists.

By: whiskey

whiskey — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 22:56:23 +0000

PC is the province of women. Who are it’s main enforcers and beneficiaries.

Good insight Claremont Thanksgiving.

As Dr. Hanson has written, typically the male route to achievement, power, and so on has been to rise through the ranks of an organization by doing something, or sudden elevation during wartime (when the top class of generals are a disaster). Edison, Lincoln, Sherman, the Wright Brothers, are all examples of rising by achievement.

As opposed to a priesthood of sorts, that women (and a few men) tend to create with PC. A PC priesthood that has power by labeling some infidels and others holy. And as Claremont Thanksgiving noted, explicitly oriented AGAINST the “average White Guy.”

All will note that high-status men like Bill Clinton, Eliot Spitzer, John Edwards, Tony Villaraigosa, and Gavin Newsome faced no PC censure AT ALL. Because they were high-status, powerful men.

Really, the gender divide and power of women in the society, an inevitable outcome of demographics, explains much of PC and our politics. Including the Oprahesque, Dr. Phil Shaman-in-Chief, frequent visitor to Oprah and Ellen, as President. Put there by Single Women who voted for him 70-29.

By: A Claremont Thanksgiving

A Claremont Thanksgiving — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:46:58 +0000

I experienced these (types of) classes as a Cal State Student. Many of us exchanged smirks and eye-rolls as the Old White Lady teaching the class tried to enlighten us. These Old White Ladies often claimed ethnicity-by-Marriage. Ironically, most of these Old White Ladies were divorced. They must’ve driven those poor guys crazy, but proudly kept the ethnic surnames for “authenticity.” The Old White Ladies often accented their drab faculty wardrobes with colorful items from the ethnic Ex-Husband’s homeland/oppressed American subculture.

Looking back on those Old White Ladies, I now understand their lives must be terribly sad. That might explain the frantic activism, an attempt to fill the emptiness…

By: NJclosetconservative

NJclosetconservative — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:54:27 +0000

That sample from the course catalog was shocking. I’ve taught at NYU which is often labeled a hotbed of critical theory but I can’t find one NYU program in all the colleges whose courses are as patently ridiculous as the one cited. I fear that the higher ed situation is much worse than I imagined.