An explanation of the origin and nature of the eruption of social tyranny known as Political Correctness.

Against the Theory of Sexist Language The word sex -- clearly evocative of an unequivocal demarcation between men and women -- has been replaced by the pale and neutral gender, and the words man and he -- now avoided as if they were worse than obscenities -- have been replaced by the neuter person and by grammatically confusing, cumbersome, or offensive variants of he/she or she alone as the ...

Camille Paglia says it best-- What is most disgusting about current political correctness on campus is that its proponents have managed to convince their students and the media that they are authentic Sixties radicals. The idea is preposterous. Political correctness, with its fascist speech codes and puritanical sexual regulations, is a travesty of Sixties progressive values. (Vamps & Tramps p, ...

His essay is intended as a general guide to language that can, intentionally or not, cause offense or perpetuate discriminatory values and practices by emphasizing the differences between people or implying that one group is superior to another. Its purpose is to make dictionary users aware of the possible consequences of the words they choose. Before looking at the words themselves, it is ...

Article by John Derbyshire Navigate up Journalism The Weeky Standard January 17th 2000 The Onomastic Cringe The indispensable Michael Kelly, writing in the New York Post (12/8/99, p.41), deplores the silence of the U.S. government in the face of a massive ethnic cleansing currently under way in Kosovo, this time conducted by the Albanians against their ethnic Serb, Croatian, Roma and Muslim ...

On Freedom of Expression and Campus Speech Codes Freedom of thought and expression is essential to any institution of higher learning. Universities and colleges exist not only to transmit existing knowledge. Equally, they interpret, explore, and expand that knowledge by testing the old and proposing the new. This mission guides learning outside the classroom quite as much as in class, and often ...