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Political Correctness

Sites concerning efforts to make language conform to some ideology; in particular, to make the English language more "inclusive" and "sensitive."

Sites in Political Correctness

PC and the Crisis of Liberalism
Essay by Jim Kalb on the cause and meaning of the phenomenon.
Against the Theory of Sexist Language
Linguistic argument refuting the assumptions behind feminist efforts to reform the English language.
CCCP/PCCC
A satire of "Official Canadian Culture."
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.
Camille Paglia on Political Correctness
A libertine/liberal feminist perspective.
On Freedom of Expression and Campus Speech Codes
A policy statement from the American Association of University Professors.
Politically Correct Unix Programming
List of names of programs and terms from Unix and how they would be made politically correct.
Sensitive Language
A guide to forms of language preferred by "progressives."
Political Correctness
An essay on its nature, origin and impact.
The Onomastic Cringe
Article by John Derbyshire on the revision of ethnonymy and toponymy.
Case Tests City's Speech Ordinance
A Michigan housewife is sent to jail for using an ethnic epithet.
Femspeak
A linguistically-informed polemic against "inclusive" language.
Relativistic Patterns in Totalitarian Thinking
An inquiry into the language of Soviet ideology by Mikhail Epstein.
Racial Terms and PC Language
List of various terms for racial minorities as used in different periods and contexts.
Principles of Newspeak
The appendix to George Orwell's 1984, analyzing totalitarian abuses of language.
"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.

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