The assigned readings in Week 4 encourage critical reflection onthe impact of political correctness in our society. Perhaps you areconcerned that political correctness frustrates the exploration ofideas and obscures the search for truth. Still, we are compelled toconsider a few essential questions. First, what problem doespolitical correctness address -- i.e., does political correctnessperform, in any sense, a valuable and necessary function insociety? Second, is an alternative way of addressing this problem,or achieving important an social function, that strikes you as animprovement on political correctness? Where possible, support yourresponse with references to the assigned readings.
