Letter gives the PC crowd a bad name

MOST readers of Glenn White’s letter “Scourge of the PC gang” ( TB, 8/2) would have given up trying to understand his convoluted opinions about political correctness.

He sings the praises of the Whitlam government which enabled him to attend university without paying fees.

Never mind it was not Whitlam, now widely acknowledged as an economic illiterate, but the taxpayers who paid for Glenn’s free ride to tertiary qualifications.

Wasn’t Whitlam’s the government that sent Australia broke in four years flat?

What could be fairer than the present system that allows everyone, even some who don’t qualify academically, to attend university, initially without paying fees, but then to repay those fees only if and when their income reaches a prescribed level?

If the writing and grammar skills displayed in Glenn’s letter are any indication, the poor taxpayers didn’t get much for their money.

What is the following sentence supposed to mean?

Quote: “Those that value preservation of the natural world ahead of exploitation to extinction (perhaps of themselves)” Yes, that’s supposed to be a sentence! And, pray tell, how does “desperate graziers clearing remnant habitat” relate to PC?

Glenn’s skewed understanding of PC seems very much at odds with my understanding of it as it has been applied over many years.

The simplest definition of PC I can think of is: “The practice of not mentioning the elephant in the room so as to avoid upsetting the snowflakes and the perpetual whingers.”