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Principles of Newspeak
The appendix to George Orwell's 1984, analyzing totalitarian abuses of language.
http://www.newspeakdictionary.com/ns-prin....
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...
Femspeak
A linguistically-informed polemic against "inclusive" language.
http://karljahn.tripod.com/lang/femspeak.h...
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/ka...
The Onomastic Cringe
Article by John Derbyshire on the revision of ethnonymy and toponymy.
http://www.olimu.com/Journalism/Texts/Comm...
Sensitive Language
A guide to forms of language preferred by "progressives."
http://www.randomhouse.com/words/language/...
Relativistic Patterns in Totalitarian Thinking
An inquiry into the language of Soviet ideology by Mikhail Epstein.
http://www.emory.edu/INTELNET/ideolanguage...
CCCP/PCCC
A satire of "Official Canadian Culture."
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby...
Camille Paglia on Political Correctness
A libertine/liberal feminist perspective.
http://www.dimensional.com/~randl/camille....
"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.
http://www.hist.umontreal.ca/hst7000/Shapi...
Political Correctness
An essay on its nature, origin and impact.
http://www.users.bigpond.com/smartboard/pc...
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.ht...
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
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/s...
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/w18...
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