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Political Correctness and the Speech Fashion War
By | January 1, 1970
posted by Ken Taylor
It’s been awhile since I’ve done this — awakened at a god-awful hour on Sunday morning, to write a blog about an upcoming show. I hope I’m lucid.
Today’s show is about the political correctness. Our guest is Leonard Steinhorn, author of a rousing defense of the baby boom generation, to which I proudly belong, called The Greater Generation. According to Steinhorn we baby boomers were the leading edge of a great sea change for the better in America. Our age cohort almost single-handedly ended racism, sexism, and homophobia. We brought down corrupt and mendacious presidents. We ended a pointless and forlorn war. By elevating the sanctity and fragility of the environment to national consciousness, we brought to heel a kind of anything goes capitalism that saw our lakes and streams and air as just […]
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