Political Correctness Language Issues

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

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