Directory of Political Correctness Resources

Sites concerning efforts to make language conform to some ideology; in particular, to make the English language more "inclusive" and "sensitive."

Resources in This Category

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.
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.
Political Correctness

http://www.ourcivilisation.com/pc.htm
An essay on its nature, origin and impact.
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.
Principles of Newspeak

http://www.newspeakdictionary.com/ns-prin.html
The appendix to George Orwell's 1984, analyzing totalitarian abuses of language.
Relativistic Patterns in Totalitarian Thinking

http://www.emory.edu/INTELNET/ideolanguage1.html
An inquiry into the language of Soviet ideology by Mikhail Epstein.
Sensitive Language

http://www.randomhouse.com/words/language/avoid_essay.html
A guide to forms of language preferred by "progressives."

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