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• Society: Issues: Disabilities: Etiquette  (8)
• Society: Issues: Human Rights and Liberties: Free Speech  (110)
• Society: People: Women: Feminism  (59)
• Society: Politics  (4,850)

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.

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

"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.

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..

Case Tests City's Speech Ordinance - - A Michigan housewife is sent to jail for using an ethnic epithet. (August 12, 2000)

The Onomastic Cringe - - Article by John Derbyshire on the revision of ethnonymy and toponymy. (January 17, 2000)