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PC and the Crisis of Liberalism  - http://www.cycad.com/cgi-bin/pinc/feb98/kalb-pc.html  Essay by Jim Kalb on the cause and meaning of the phenomenon.  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.  CCCP/PCCC  - http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/3862/cccp/  A satire of "Official Canadian Culture."  Camille Paglia on Political Correctness  - http://www.dimensional.com/~randl/camille.htm  A libertine/liberal feminist perspective.  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.  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.  Sensitive Language  - http://www.randomhouse.com/words/language/avoid_essay.html  A guide to forms of language preferred by "progressives."  Political Correctness  - http://www.users.bigpond.com/smartboard/pc.htm  An essay on its nature, origin and impact.  The Onomastic Cringe  - http://www.olimu.com/Journalism/Texts/Commentary/Ethnonymy.htm  Article by John Derbyshire on the revision of ethnonymy and toponymy.  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.  Femspeak  - http://karljahn.tripod.com/lang/femspeak.html  A linguistically-informed polemic against "inclusive" language.  Relativistic Patterns in Totalitarian Thinking  - http://www.emory.edu/INTELNET/ideolanguage1.html  An inquiry into the language of Soviet ideology by Mikhail Epstein.  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.  Principles of Newspeak  - http://www.newspeakdictionary.com/ns-prin.html  The appendix to George Orwell's 1984, analyzing totalitarian abuses of language.  "Political Correctness" and the American Historical Profession  - http://www.hist.umontreal.ca/hst7000/ShapiroPC.htm  Paper arguing that right-wingers have long been imposing their own ideology, with sanctions against speech going against established orthodoxies.