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Straight-up Political Correctness

Tan understands the difficulty of this request. Individual tolerance and open-mindedness just won't be enough to combat homophobia; rather, straight students must make the "empathetic leap," in order to care about rights denied but deserved by others.

What all this boils down too is that passive political correctness alone cannot protect our community from crimes born of hate and ignorance. Instead, we need to build a new identity politics, where the identities in question are not always our own.

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