The death throes of political correctness

By Washington Examiner

Published December 28, 2016 5:01am ET

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“A Christmas Story” is such a popular movie that two different cable networks run it for 24 hours straight around Christmas time.

It surely never occurred to anyone before 2016 to write, let alone publish, a 1,500-word essay about how it is a subtly racist movie that exemplifies white privilege and conceals the ways the Northern Indiana town it was set in was built on oppression.

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