It’s a 100% remarkable fact that an entire three-quarters of the Twitter commentariat can call on liberals to cease using, if they wish to win elections, the language of “identity politics”, and none think to label this political correctness.
It’s a 100% remarkable fact that an entire cottage industry of self-identified liberals in the academy is urging scholars to abandon certain critical methodologies and areas of inquiry on the grounds that they are causing political resentment, and none dare call this PC run amok.
Suppose I said that psychologists should abandon their research on IQ and race because it would have bad political consequences. PC, right?Now what if I said the same thing about critical race or gender studies? Suddenly I have a perch at the NYTimes. And therein lies the grift.
The label PC is, apparently, a precious natural resource and must be carefully rationed.
