Political Correctness

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

Camille Paglia on Political Correctness
A libertine/liberal feminist perspective.
http://www.dimensional.com/~randl/camille.htm

CCCP/PCCC
A satire of "Official Canadian Culture."
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/3862/cccp/

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

Political Correctness
An essay on its nature, origin and impact.
http://www.users.bigpond.com/smartboard/pc.htm

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

Principles of Newspeak
The appendix to George Orwell's 1984, analyzing totalitarian abuses of language.
http://www.newspeakdictionary.com/ns-prin.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

Relativistic Patterns in Totalitarian Thinking
An inquiry into the language of Soviet ideology by Mikhail Epstein.
http://www.emory.edu/INTELNET/ideolanguage1.html

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

Case Tests City's Speech Ordinance
A Michigan housewife is sent to jail for using an ethnic epithet. <small>(August 12, 2000)</small>
http://mu.mlive.com/news/index.ssf?/news/stories/20000812mfighti055.frm

The Onomastic Cringe
Article by John Derbyshire on the revision of ethnonymy and toponymy. <small>(January 17, 2000)</small>
http://www.olimu.com/Journalism/Texts/Commentary/Ethnonymy.htm