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Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is...

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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.

And yet it was a fact that if Syme grasped, even for three seconds, the nature of his, Winston's, se...

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As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to ill...

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The term "political correctness" has always appalled me, reminding me of Orwell's "Thought Police" a...

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Each category is generalized to the greatest possible extent, so that it eventually loses all specif...

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Jean BaudrillardThe Transparency of Evil: Essays in Extreme Phenomena

The idea that you have to be protected from any kind of uncomfortable emotion is what I absolutely d...

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If your social consciousness seems stuck in 1975, 2014 is gonna be a rough ride.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We...

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If the first words out of your mouth are to cry ‘political correctness!’, … chances are very, very h...

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...[S]ome of the opinions which people entertain should be respected, and others should not.

t is generally recognized that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multit...

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It is generally recognized that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi...

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You're not allowed to call them dinosaurs any more," said Yo-less. "It's speciesist. You have to cal...

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It is scarcely the same thing to put a man on the Moon as to put a bone in your nose.

Just because a word or expression has an antiquity or was once widely used does not confer on it som...

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... A few centuries earlier... humans still knew pretty well when a thing was proved and when it was...

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I'm very depressed how in this country you can be told "That's offensive" as though those two words ...

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There's a grosser irony about Politically Correct English. This is that PCE purports to be the diale...

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