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I got a kick out of one channel where the guy said in 1991 "The rise of political correctness on college campuses".

Oh my! The more things change the more they stay the same.



I laughed at the recent South Park episode where some old guys are talking about the new wave of political correctness: "Yup... the last time this happened it lasted about 6 years"


In this case, new applications of the same law (Title IX) sit at the center of the debates in both '91 and today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_IX#Further_legislation_a...

The room for broad interpretation and the administrative issues with this particular law have never been resolved, so we've been seeing the same complaints emerge over different applications over very many years.

"The more things stay the same" doesn't have quite the same ring to it, though :)


Prescription medicine being too expensive and Middle East strife news from '91 as well.


You wouldn't have seen that in 2002, when islamophobia was at its peak.




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