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 Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2020

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Corinna Fales' book, "This Is Not a Safe Space" is a wisdom book, told with stories -- her stories and those of others she grew up with and interviewed. The efforts to enforce a rhetorical orthodoxy, first termed Political Correctness by people on the left and then the right (both hostile to what has come to be termed PC), has become widely adopted. PC, as Fales analyzes it, is an effort to enforce an orthodoxy, or orthodoxies, that primarily serve the ambitions of the enforcers, who generally stand in positions of power -- gatekeepers -- as well as those who wish to obscure their own class power -- something Fales addresses at the end. Like Fales, I have always seen PC as antithetical to what activists fought for in the 1950s and '60s. They fought to dismantle the color line, to allow Black people, like White people, to choose their associates and their cultural forms, as well as to demand respect for people whose cultures and experiences are different from one's own (some things she addresses in greater depth in her earlier book "Different: Our Universal Longing for Community"). The Freedom movement aimed to bring into being a nation in which, as Fales so aptly quotes Martin Luther King Jr, one would be judged by the content of one's character, not the color of one's skin.