Right-Wing P.C.

How conservatives learned to stop worrying and love political correctness

Jesse Walker | May 8, 2006

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• "a Community Pluralism Committee reporting to the President, an integral part of our original Pluralism Initiative Structure that never solidified."

• "The college creates and fills the position of Vice President of Equity and Pluralism."

• "The college provides increased funding for pluralism training and development including hiring Glenn Singleton for the Beyond Diversity workshop at least once, and maybe several more times."

In other words, Perryman's protest became an opportunity for bureaucratic expansion. The reference to Singleton is especially telling. "A self-described 'diversity expert,'" the historian and blogger David Beito writes, "Singleton is an accomplished race baiter who is often able to persuade colleges and schools to pay him hefty fees for his services. Critics on both the left and right have condemned his 'Maoist' style 'training' methods."

So this isn't simply a case of people on the right taking advantage of the structures put in place by the left, nor of building a parallel apparatus of their own. It's a case of a conservative campaign that actively helped those original structures grow, even landing a professional diversity hustler a job. Left and right were already co-dependent; now they're in a full-fledged clinch. I wonder how they'll feel in the morning?