Political Correctness

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To be fair, he was eventually exonerated, after about a year of deliberations, where presumably, there were long stretches of time where nobody on the academic board thought "You know, maybe the accusation against Tumin doesn't make any goddamn sense. I mean, if it's racist, he would have to mean 'Are they real or are they black?' I mean, I know logic doesn't usually enter into racism, but even with that in mind, would you even imagine anyone racist saying something like 'Black people don't actually exist?'"

But see here's the problem---it's taking the outliers (and more to the point taking something that happened in the 1980's and relating it to the conversation about political correctness as it exists today)--- and pointing to them as evidence that political correctness has gone too far. Yes, in any culture there are examples of inequities. There are examples of bad shit happening to people who don't deserve it. That should be reconciled, and even in this case, it was. I imagine that some irreparable damage was done to this man's reputation, and that is unconscionable. There will always be people who take it too far.

The pendulum always finds its equilibrium. The overwhelming majority of "PC" cases are people being shitty in public. The overwhelming majority of backlash is verbal and has no real consequence other than volume.

As it should be.