On Political Correctness

Dogma, and the enforcement of dogma, makes for ideological consensus. Students seldom disagree with one another anymore in class, I’ve been told about school after school. The reason, at least at Whitman, said one of the students I talked to there, is mainly that they really don’t have any disagreements. Another added that when they take up an issue in class, it isn’t, let’s talk about issue X, but rather, let’s talk about why such-and-such position is the correct one to have on issue X. When my student wrote about her churchgoing friend, she said that she couldn’t understand why anyone would feel uncomfortable being out as a religious person at a place as diverse as Scripps. But of course, Scripps and its ilk are only diverse in terms of identity. In terms of ideology, they are all but homogeneous. You don’t have “different voices” on campus, as these institutions like to boast; you have different bodies, speaking with the same voice.
This is a neat article. For some reason it just reminds me of when I thought "classical liberalism" was the most edgy political ideology ever because everyone was either a Democrat, Republican, or something radical to the point radicalism was trite. I was probably right, especially considering my basically-centrist results on the Political Quiz @Medusa posted a while back were pretty uncommon.

Edit: I was the only person who got "Centrist" on the whole thread somehow, with results like "Social Liberalism" and "Libertarian Socialism" as really common. There was also one person getting "Communism" and someone on the right getting "Nazism"(!).