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“In 1996 I was a visiting professor at the University of Wisconsin. The History Club there asked me to participate in a panel discussion on "Political Correctness and the University." The professor seated next to me taught American political thought. I remarked to her that when I began teaching I had required students to read five or six books each semester, but I had cut that back to three or four or else the students would drop my course. She said she had the same problem. She had dropped Thomas Jefferson’s writings from the required reading list. ‘You are … being paid by the citizens of Wisconsin to teach their children American political thought, and you leave out Tom Jefferson?’
‘Yes,’ she replied. ‘He was a slaveholder.’ More than half the large audience applauded.”Share
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