Picking up on where I left off yesterday--it turns out I was not harsh enough on my attack on the New York magazine story on political correctness.
Others are going for the jugular--
Amanda Taub over at Vox says political correctness is a made-up term people throw at opinions they don't want to hear:
But political correctness isn't a "creed" at all. Rather it's a sort of catch-all term we apply to people who ask for more sensitivity to a particular cause than we're willing to give — a way to dismiss issues as frivolous in order to justify ignoring them. Worse, the charge of "political correctness" is often used by those in a position of privilege to silence debates raised by marginalized people — to say that their concerns don't deserve to be voiced, much less addressed.
Alex Pareene at Gawker: Chait is just a privileged white male who doesn't like being called a privileged white male:
Chait is understandably upset that the left is playing dirty by impugning his view of himself as a good, tolerant liberal, on the side of justice. No one wants to hear that the place that they worked for many years was actively fighting for white supremacy!
Comedian John Hodgman answers back with a series of devastating tweets:
to suggest that somehow this discourse is hurting its own side has a name: concern trolling.