Michael Barone: What's Oozing Out Of Campuses Is Polluting Society

A couple of years back one of the lame defenses of political correctness (right up there with "it doesn't exist") was: it's isolated to universities. Indeed, people did make that argument. As if universities didn't matter. And didn't have an enormous amount of influence on the rest of society. I'm not sure whether the defenders of PC really believed what they were saying...but I think they did. Those people are nothing if not convicted.
   At any rate, it was an obviously stupid argument at the time. And it's now undeniable that PC has leaked out into society at large.
   Here's Michael Barone on the topic.