Political Correctness Debate

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" "Political Correctness," frequently abbreviated to PC, refers to a movement, particularly associated with university campuses and the social community of academia, that in the view of its supporters seeks to actively resist cultural tendencies toward racism, sexism, and the domination of traditional elite attitudes and in the view of its critics seeks to impose a new totalitarianism of words that cannot be said and ideas that cannot be expressed.


The most familiar form that the PC debate has taken relates to campus "speech codes" that seek to bar or restrict language felt to be racist or to be demeaning and stereotyping of other groups. Thus, "one school requires that short people be called the "vertically challenged" (Beckwith & Bauman, 1993, p. 12 n. 3). However, the PC speech debate is only one aspect of a much..."

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