Against the Theory of Sexist Language - http://www.friesian.com/language.htm
Linguistic argument refuting the assumptions behind feminist efforts to reform the English language.
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Case Tests City's Speech Ordinance - http://mu.mlive.com/news/index.ssf?/news/stories/20000812mfighti055.frm
A Michigan housewife is sent to jail for using an ethnic epithet.
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On Freedom of Expression and Campus Speech Codes - http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/freedom/aaup.html
A policy statement from the American Association of University Professors.
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Political Correctness - http://www.ourcivilisation.com/pc.htm
An essay on its nature, origin and impact.
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Politically Correct Unix Programming - http://www.fiction.net/tidbits/computer/pc-unix.html
List of names of programs and terms from Unix and how they would be made politically correct.
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Principles of Newspeak - http://www.newspeakdictionary.com/ns-prin.html
The appendix to George Orwell's 1984, analyzing totalitarian abuses of language.
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Racial Terms and PC Language - http://www.uwec.edu/Geography/Ivogeler/w188/j1.htm
List of various terms for racial minorities as used in different periods and contexts.
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Relativistic Patterns in Totalitarian Thinking - http://www.emory.edu/INTELNET/ideolanguage1.html
An inquiry into the language of Soviet ideology by Mikhail Epstein.
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Sensitive Language - http://www.randomhouse.com/words/language/avoid_essay.html
A guide to forms of language preferred by "progressives."
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The Onomastic Cringe - http://www.olimu.com/Journalism/Texts/Commentary/Ethnonymy.htm
Article by John Derbyshire on the revision of ethnonymy and toponymy.
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