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PC and the Crisis of Liberalism
Essay by Jim Kalb on the cause and meaning of the phenomenon.
http://www.cycad.com/cgi-bin/pinc/feb98/kalb-pc.html
Against the Theory of Sexist Language
Linguistic argument refuting the assumptions behind feminist efforts to reform the English language.
http://www.friesian.com/language.htm
CCCP/PCCC
A satire of "Official Canadian Culture."
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/3862/cccp/
Political Correctness
A progressive view that attempts to separate the "good kind" from the "bad kind" and re-frame the "good kind" as moral correctness.
http://csf.colorado.edu/mail/psn/mar98/0053.html
Camille Paglia on Political Correctness
A libertine/liberal feminist perspective.
http://www.dimensional.com/~randl/camille.htm
On Freedom of Expression and Campus Speech Codes
A policy statement from the American Association of University Professors.
http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/freedom/aaup.html
Politically Correct Unix Programming
List of names of programs and terms from Unix and how they would be made politically correct.
http://www.fiction.net/tidbits/computer/pc-unix.html
Sensitive Language
A guide to forms of language preferred by "progressives."
http://www.randomhouse.com/words/language/avoid_essay.html
Political Correctness
An essay on its nature, origin and impact.
http://www.users.bigpond.com/smartboard/pc.htm
The Onomastic Cringe
Article by John Derbyshire on the revision of ethnonymy and toponymy.
http://www.olimu.com/Journalism/Texts/Commentary/Ethnonymy.htm
Case Tests City's Speech Ordinance
A Michigan housewife is sent to jail for using an ethnic epithet.
http://mu.mlive.com/news/index.ssf?/news/stories/20000812mfighti055.frm
Femspeak
A linguistically-informed polemic against "inclusive" language.
http://karljahn.tripod.com/lang/femspeak.html
Relativistic Patterns in Totalitarian Thinking
An inquiry into the language of Soviet ideology by Mikhail Epstein.
http://www.emory.edu/INTELNET/ideolanguage1.html
Racial Terms and PC Language
List of various terms for racial minorities as used in different periods and contexts.
http://www.uwec.edu/Geography/Ivogeler/w188/j1.htm
Principles of Newspeak
The appendix to George Orwell's 1984, analyzing totalitarian abuses of language.
http://www.newspeakdictionary.com/ns-prin.html
The Flummery Digest
Extensive collection of anecdotes and news items.
http://www.praxagora.com/sierra/flum/
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