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Web Sites in Category Political Correctness

"Political Correctness" and the American Historical Profession - Paper arguing that right-wingers have long been imposing their own ideology, with sanctions against speech going against established orthodoxies.

Against the Theory of Sexist Language - Linguistic argument refuting the assumptions behind feminist efforts to reform the English language.

Camille Paglia on Political Correctness - A libertine/liberal feminist perspective.

Case Tests City's Speech Ordinance - A Michigan housewife is sent to jail for using an ethnic epithet.

CCCP/PCCC - A satire of "Official Canadian Culture."

Femspeak - A linguistically-informed polemic against "inclusive" language.

On Freedom of Expression and Campus Speech Codes - A policy statement from the American Association of University Professors.

PC and the Crisis of Liberalism - Essay by Jim Kalb on the cause and meaning of the phenomenon.

Political Correctness - A progressive view that attempts to separate the "good kind" from the "bad kind" and re-frame the "good kind" as moral correctness.

Political Correctness - An essay on its nature, origin and impact.

Politically Correct Unix Programming - List of names of programs and terms from Unix and how they would be made politically correct.

Principles of Newspeak - The appendix to George Orwell's 1984, analyzing totalitarian abuses of language.

Racial Terms and PC Language - List of various terms for racial minorities as used in different periods and contexts.

Relativistic Patterns in Totalitarian Thinking - An inquiry into the language of Soviet ideology by Mikhail Epstein.

Sensitive Language - A guide to forms of language preferred by "progressives."

The Onomastic Cringe - Article by John Derbyshire on the revision of ethnonymy and toponymy.

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Society > People > Women > Feminism
Society > Issues > Disabilities > Etiquette
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