What's wrong/right with being pc

[Craig Clark]

I said
 
>Not all 
>opponents of PC are neanderthal gay-bashing males who think that
>blacks are savages and that women should shut up and get on with
>the business of having our children.

to which David Casseres replied 

> No indeed, but many of those who go on for paragraph after paragraph
> and post after post and thread after thread and mailing list after
> mailing list are god-damned fools and crashing bores.  For godssake
> post this stuff somewhere else, will you?

I'd agree generally that these debates are unlikely ever to be 
resolved, particularly not through a forum whose contributors are as 
diverse as this one; and that therefore the continuation of this 
debate is probably futile. On the other hand, issues of language and 
power which are at least corollary to the issue of political 
correctness are very central indeed to discussions of Pynchon. At 
times we may find it necessary to depart from the minute discussion 
of the text to illustrate our understanding of these issues with 
personal anecdotes. I don't think that is entirely alien to the 
spirit of the texts themselves.

Craig Clark

"Living inside the system is like driving across
the countryside in a bus driven by a maniac bent
on suicide."
   - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"