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Political Correctness

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