Posted: September 07, 1999 at 14:45:23: by shadowfax
: Two words: misinterpretation and attention.
: There are certainly certain parts of Tolkien's work that could be misinterpreted as being prejudiced but I think that anyone who has fuuly read LOTR etc and come to love Tolkien's work will realize that it is nothing but interpretation. It is the attention-seekers who see one word or phrase or passage that may be interpreted as "not politically correct" that end up blowing things out of proportion just to get a bit of the spotlight.: All that can be done is to just ignore them because even discussions like this are giving them what they want and thats attention!! I would like to think that out-of-control PC is spam and is best put down by being ignored, but can't. I think this is a real danger and may end in the loss of a lot more than literature. The whims of PC are worse than the whims of dictatorship, because PC is out of control and just grows and destroys civilization as we know it in a tumor-like way, whereas even a crack-pot dictator has some vision or goal he wishes to achieve. I think it is the duty od everyone who values what we stand to loose to become active, for example by writing letters to newspapers etc to expose PC flappers and their methods.
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