Abstract
The PC hysteria probably will pass, as the mass media shifts its attention to fresher news. The nation's educational agenda is much too crowded for manufactured stories about the "new McCarthyism" to hold center stage for long. The real danger of this highly publicized academic "problem" is the residue of attitudes that might remain, influencing policy decisions about course content, educational approach, and even hiring. It is unlikely that any instructors will be tarred as PC Brown Shirts, but educator should take seriously the charges by Searle and other traditionalists that alternative perspectives are intellectually illegitimate. An educator worried about the PC label should give serious thought to the principles underlying her or his perspective, the relation of this perspective to "education as such," and the ways that such a perspective can and should be incorporated legitimately into the curriculum. Alternative perspectives belong in the classroom because they provide more adequate approaches to liberal education, even in handling traditional texts and topics.
Journal Title
Iowa Journal of Speech Communication
Volume
24
Issue
1
First Page
8
Last Page
21
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Schluter, Randall C.
(1992)
"The Non-Problem of Political Correctness,"
Iowa Journal of Communication: Vol. 24:
No.
1, Article 4.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/ijc/vol24/iss1/4
Copyright
©1992 Iowa Communication Association
