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Sara: Can we please put a nation-wide moratorium on the use of the term “PC?” It really has no definition, except perhaps that it is a term people throw around to show that they’re edgier than other folk. (How a conservative can be edgy, I do not really know. It’s one of those popular oxymorons, like Christian rock.) It was a somewhat relevant term - what in 1990? Now it’s pretty old hat. Let’s try and move on to this millennium.
DFO: Sorry, Sara, I believe political correctness abounds in today’s society. You can say anything you want about, say, religious Evangelicals, but you’re branded a bigot if you raise too many questions about immigration. We saw a good example of that here this week when the Left Bank name-called individuals who had problems who supported permission slips for Idaho high school clubs as a result of the Gay-Straight Alliance being formed at Lake City High. I believe PC is alive and well. Then, I’m a fiftysomething and may not have missed the sea change when it went out of fashion in the ‘90s.
D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
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