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Political Correctness

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

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

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