“Ranting about "political correctness" is best read as "I can't really deal with the merits of your interpretation, so I'll deride it largely because it doesn't reinforce my own preferences and prejudices."”

—  Brooks D. Simpson

2010s, Erasing History? Monuments and Memory (January 2016)

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