REED: When liberals become illiberal
Yesterday we witnessed another chapter in the saga of national hot-button issues playing out at the University. As part of its April Fools special edition, The Cavalier Daily published a series of articles, two of which have been since-removed and third which can be found here, intended as satirical critiques of racist and retrograde attitudes and practices. The articles tackled police racial profiling and brutality, fraternity flippancy and degrading assumptions about women in power through comedy. We can argue about effectiveness, but the resulting outcry over usage of racial and gender-based humor to critique racism and sexism reflects the dominant cultural trend of liberalism’s self-cannibalization. Excessive political correctness is weakening the left’s ideological underpinnings and detracting from its material success.