"Political Correctness"
You're Wrong About
Sarah Marshall
4.6 • 23K Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2021
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Mike tells Sarah how liberal magazines turned a "kids these days" moral panic into a national crisis. Digressions include Law & Order, Dave Foley and swimming pool etiquette. This episode contains detailed descriptions of sexual assault, mass shootings and suicide.
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Links!
- John Wilson’s The Myth of Political Correctness
- Jon Weiner's Historians in Trouble
- Neil Gross’s Why Are Professors Liberal and Why Do Conservatives Care?
- Political Correctness: How The Right Invented A Phantom Enemy
- The Fraying Of America
- The Rising Hegemony of the Politically Correct
- Are You Telling Me That I'm Politically Correct?
- Are You Politically Correct?
- The Rising Hegemony of the Politically Correct
- There Is No Campus Free Speech Crisis: A Close Look at the Evidence
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Also, is it a free speech or right? Like in the Constitution? It's not like the bill of privileges, sweetie. |
| 0:20.4 | Welcome to Irang about where we learn about the moral panics of the past, present, and future. |
| 0:26.8 | Aw, because it's all the same. This is the same one every time, baby. Look, because that must come down. |
| 0:33.9 | I am Michael Hobbs. I'm Sarah Marshall. And if you want to support the show and listen to our cute |
| 0:38.7 | bonus episodes, including one we just recorded about Lil Nas X and the new satanic panic, you can |
| 0:44.0 | find us on Patreon at patreon.com slash your wrong about and you can find Sarah on YR Dads and |
| 0:49.9 | you can find Mike on maintenance phase. Or he gets listened to this show and just keep |
| 0:55.4 | just focusing on not giving us money and spending your money on roadtrip snacks. No further action |
| 1:01.6 | required. Mike, I'm very excited about our topic today. Why is that? Because I think this is one |
| 1:07.1 | of those episodes for my 90s child who is going to make a lot more sense to me at the end. I thought |
| 1:11.5 | you were going to say that your 90s college experience was going to make more sense because you were |
| 1:15.7 | like part of this. Yeah, I'm 50. But weren't you on like one of these college campuses that gets sort |
| 1:22.9 | of demonized as like two live or whatever? Probably because I went to Bennington for a little while. |
| 1:28.7 | There you go. That's a thing. Yeah. If you listen to moral panics, there's only like nine universities |
| 1:33.2 | in the United States and they're all like small liberal arts colleges in the Northeast. Can I wait? |
| 1:37.6 | Can I guess? Yeah. Bennington, Sarah Lawrence, Skidmore, Oberlin, Antioch, obviously. Obviously. |
| 1:44.6 | Oh gosh. The one in Olympia. Every. Yeah. We're going to have some swarthmore this episode. We're |
| 1:51.0 | going to have some Harvard and Yale. Of course. We're going to have some Wellesley and Wesleyan. |
| 1:55.4 | There's a Wellesley and a Wellesley and I'm sure they're both in these. Yeah. I'm just |
| 1:59.2 | portmanteowing those. Great. I did look up as I was looking into this that there are 1500 |
| 2:05.8 | universities in the United States and only 200 of them are small liberal arts colleges and they |
| 2:11.1 | enroll 4% of all college students. And yet our entire population is learning its social |
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