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Political Correctness: A Brief Introduction
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October 18, 2016
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Spend any amount of time on the internet, and you’ll see the term political correctness. It’s part of the common lexicon, but seems rather vague in its meaning. We know it's supposed to mean something that’s bad. Donald Trump and South Park don’t like it, and it has a vaguely 90’s sound to it. As when most things seem to come out of nowhere, the term political correctness has a history, and you know what we do here at Step Back with history.
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Geoffrey Hughes, Political CorrectnessA History of Semantics and Culture
Diane Ravitch, The Language PoliceHow Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn
This episode was produced for the Wolf Hall Debate on political correctness in London, Ontario, Canada on October 17th 2016.
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