PC/TRP

[LARSSON at VAX1.Mankato.MSUS.EDU]

Niall clarifies things:
"Given our man's strictures about binary thought processes, it seems a little
ironic that the p-list should have fallen for the old pc/non-pc opposition,
when "pc" itself must surely have been invented by some Murdoch hack to get
progressive types (people who share more than a passing commitment to social
justice) arguing amongst themselves, or if not arguing, spraying each other
with anecdotes.
 
Or maybe the "pc" argument is germane to this list perhaps it really does
define some seismic fault line in Pynchon's readership: old sixties radicals
turned rightwing libertarians versus nineties progressives who think that
social justice is best served through institutionalized reform?"

Here, here!  "PC" is a remarkably flexible concept that seems to mean

"new ways of doing things that I don't like"!  What is usually derided as
PC (new rules for names, picky bureaucratic procedures, etc.) actually
transcend politics.  The content can be left or right, but the form remains
the same.

Otherwise, it is a grabbag term that covers everything from renaming things
to "deconstruction" (defined in any way one pleases).

Ah well.  Let's get back to that GRGR.

Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN)