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>>crbela+(OP)

  The reason the student protests of the 1960s didn't lead to political correctness was precisely that — they were student movements. They didn't have any real power.

I don't know what Graham thinks 'political correctness' would have looked like in the 1960s – most Americans still thought women's lib was a joke, many Americans were fighting to preserve segregation, and nobody had heard of such a thing as a gay rights movement.

>>thomas+0r1
He's presenting his own musings as some kind of historical record. Utterly unburdened by the need for data to back up his narrative.

>>causal+4v1
I have to admit it's pretty funny that all of the citations in the piece are just more of his own opinions.

>>PpEY4f+562
Those aren't citations, they're just asides.

>>sparky+Dp2
Yeah, it's very strange to write an "origins of" essay without citing examples (just Larry Summers?), referencing experts, or showing evidence. This article is just about his feelings. He's not an historian, or a social scientist, and frankly I don't think he's familiar enough with this topic to present an historical overview. It's an unconvincing essay.

I laughed at the beginning when he stated that student movements in the '60s didn't have any real power. Paul, please just take a sociology class or something.