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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."
On Freedom of Expression and Campus Speech Codes - A policy statement from the American Association of University Professors.
Political Correctness - An essay on its nature, origin and impact.
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) Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.