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Article: The serious side to political correctness ; Good for Neil Young, debunking the gormless expression "politically correct".
- Article from:
- Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK)
- Article date:
- April 26, 2008
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Good for Neil Young, debunking the gormless expression
"politically correct".
The letter from Marilyn Warbis headed "Nuclear errors" must have
produced a number of comments. Nuclear errors indeed - as it seems
that Marilyn knows rather little about nuclear power and radiation,
though she is certainly right to be aware of its many dangers.
There is, however, a serious point to be made. Political
correctness is a left-wing language code that attempts to minimise
the offence to race, gender and other cultural groups - and some of
it has been for the good.
Most people would agree that it is deeply offensive and wrong to
address a black person in a disparaging way - but I can remember
working on ...