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political correctness

Shorthand term for a set of liberal attitudes about education and society, and the terminology associated with them. To be politically correct is to be sensitive to unconscious racism and sexism and to display environmental awareness. However, the real or alleged enforcement of PC speech codes (‘people of colour’ instead of ‘coloured people’, ‘differently abled’ instead of ‘disabled’, and so on) at more than 130 US universities by 1991 attracted derision and was criticized as a form of thought-policing.



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It is a "dead" language, which prevents liberals from translating words into the vernacular using ambiguous terms that undermine church doctrine, such as inclusive language.
It's all Latin to them by Kokoski, Paul; Smith, David L. / U.S. Catholic
Inclusive--the category of questions reflecting respondent's feelings about the use of inclusive language in religious ceremonies, scripture, and naming God.
Divinity and femininity issues in counseling by Moore, Rhonda / Academic Exchange Quarterly
The news stories focus on the struggles between Rome and American bishops and the Catholic Biblical Association over the inclusive language used in the New American Bible, struggles fraught with ideological and ecclesiological implications.
You say potato, I say .. by Johnson, Luke Timothy / Commonweal
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