Madeline
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Out of nostalgia, I have just finished reading "Sisterhood is Powerful", a 1970 anthology of women's writing. It reminded me of certain phrases and advertising campaigns that once predominated the US landscape and would be met with derision now.
It is very commonplace to attack political correctness -- the use of inclusive language and descriptors preferred by the group -- as having been silly and over-reaching, and some of that is fair, I think. But I also think that the change in social values that made it less acceptable to tell dirty jokes or use racial eptithets has benefitted all of us.
What say you? Are we better off if a hateful person feels some social pressure to guard his tongue?
Political correctness (adjectivally, politically correct; both forms commonly abbreviated to PC) is a term which denotes language, ideas, policies, and behavior seen as seeking to minimize social and institutional offense in occupational, gender, racial, cultural, sexual orientation, disability, and age-related contexts. In current usage, the term is primarily pejorative[1][2], while the term politically incorrect has been used as an implicitly positive self-description. Examples of the latter include the conservative Politically Incorrect Guides published by the Regnery editorial house[3] and the television talk show Politically Incorrect. In these cases, the term politically incorrect connotes language, ideas, and behavior unconstrained by a perceived orthodoxy or by concerns about offending or expressing bias regarding various groups of people.
Political correctness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Out of nostalgia, I have just finished reading "Sisterhood is Powerful", a 1970 anthology of women's writing. It reminded me of certain phrases and advertising campaigns that once predominated the US landscape and would be met with derision now.
It is very commonplace to attack political correctness -- the use of inclusive language and descriptors preferred by the group -- as having been silly and over-reaching, and some of that is fair, I think. But I also think that the change in social values that made it less acceptable to tell dirty jokes or use racial eptithets has benefitted all of us.
What say you? Are we better off if a hateful person feels some social pressure to guard his tongue?