The former president of the APA, Robert Perloff warns that:
"Psychology, social work, and psychiatry have been captured by an ultraliberal feminist agenda." Certain points of view are "squelched" by "special interest mafia groups", which use "shunning, intimidation, and blacklisting" to achieve results.
He concludes:
"I have lived through McCarthyism and the Hollywood witchhunts. As abominable as those were, there was not the insidious sense of intellectual intimidation that currently exists under political correctness."
Could the PC movement slow intellectual exploration? Is it worth it, in the name of carefully promoting tolerance and other noble goals, if certain areas are not explored by science and certain questions are not asked? Is it fair to subject psychologists who present unpopular findings to blacklisting, in order to prevent anyone from being offended?
2007-10-05
11:14:40
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