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Article: Talking sense about political correctness.
- Article from:
- Journal of Australian Studies
- Article date:
- March 1, 2002
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Over the last seven years or so the expression `political correctness' has entered the political lexicon in the English-speaking world. Hundreds of opinion pieces in newspapers and magazines have been written about it in addition to scores of academic articles and debates in which the expression has gained currency. It is close to being received opinion in Anglo-American popular culture that a coalition of feminists, ethnic minorities, socialists and homosexuals have achieved a hegemony in the public sphere so as to make possible their censorship, or at least the effective silencing, of views which differ from a supposed `politically correct' orthodoxy. Correspondingly, ...