Political Correctness Language Issues

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• - A policy statement from the American Association of University Professors.
  
• - A guide to forms of language preferred by "progressives."
  
• - Essay by Jim Kalb on the cause and meaning of the phenomenon.
  
• - An inquiry into the language of Soviet ideology by Mikhail Epstein.
  
• - List of various terms for racial minorities as used in different periods and contexts.
  
• - Article by John Derbyshire on the revision of ethnonymy and toponymy.
  
• - Paper arguing that right-wingers have long been imposing their own ideology, with sanctions against speech going against established orthodoxies.
  
• - A Michigan housewife is sent to jail for using an ethnic epithet.
  
• - Linguistic argument refuting the assumptions behind feminist efforts to reform the English language.
  
• - The appendix to George Orwell's 1984, analyzing totalitarian abuses of language.
  
• - An essay on its nature, origin and impact.
  
• - A satire of "Official Canadian Culture."
  
• - List of names of programs and terms from Unix and how they would be made politically correct.
  
• - A linguistically-informed polemic against "inclusive" language.
  
• - A libertine/liberal feminist perspective.