{"id":6219,"date":"2016-09-15T14:53:29","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T14:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/09\/15\/the-origins-of-political-correctness\/"},"modified":"2016-09-15T14:53:29","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T14:53:29","slug":"the-origins-of-political-correctness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/09\/15\/the-origins-of-political-correctness\/","title":{"rendered":"The Origins of Political Correctness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_w0TOJspijA\">YouTube video<\/a> by William S. Lind with footage of Martin Jay, David Horowitz and Roger Kimball. &#0160;Traces the origin of cultural Marxism from the breakdown of economic Marxism and the role of the Frankfurt School including discussion of the &#39;60s New Left guru, Herbert Marcuse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">By the time I began as a freshman at Loyola University of Los Angeles in 1968, the old Thomism that had been taught out of scholastic manuals was long gone to be replaced by a hodge-podge of existentialism, phenomenology, and critical theory. &#0160;The only analytic fellow in the department at the time was an adjunct with an M. A. from Glasgow. &#0160;I pay tribute to him in <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2009\/05\/in-praise-of-a-lowly-adjunct.html\">In Praise of a Lowly Adjunct<\/a>. &#0160;The scholasticism taught by sleepy Jesuits before the ferment of the &#39;60s was in many ways moribund, but at least it was systematic and presented a coherent worldview. &#0160;The manuals, besides being systematic, also introduced the greats: Plato, Aristotle, Thomas, et al. &#0160;By contrast, we were assigned stuff like Marcuse&#39;s <em>Eros and Civilization<\/em>. &#0160; The abdication of authority on the part of Catholic universities has been going on for a long time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">See also by Lind, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marylandthursdaymeeting.com\/Archives\/SpecialWebDocuments\/Cultural.Marxism.htm\">What is Cultural Marxism?<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A YouTube video by William S. Lind with footage of Martin Jay, David Horowitz and Roger Kimball. &#0160;Traces the origin of cultural Marxism from the breakdown of economic Marxism and the role of the Frankfurt School including discussion of the &#39;60s New Left guru, Herbert Marcuse. By the time I began as a freshman at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/09\/15\/the-origins-of-political-correctness\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Origins of Political Correctness&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiographical","category-leftism-and-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}