Spartan Spirit - Best for the West - Episode 11: Political Correctness, Part 1
This episode looks at one component of political correctness: word use.
This is the first of a two part series on political correctness. In the next episodes, I’ll be covering woke politics and cancel culture. There is a common thread amongst the three of them around the notion of curtailing one’s views or expressions of any sort, including societal expressions such as putting up memorials that might offend someone, to fit in with the modern expectation that people, government and organisations will refrain from anything that offends anyone.
This episode covers:
· The history of the term political correctness
· Defines it in the modern context.
· Use the history of the word Retard to look at how PC language is affecting today’s modern western societies. In particular, what this means for free speech, education, and miscommunication.
National Public Radio website, www.npr.org
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/243912/summary By Herbert Kohl
https://lithub.com/generation-grievance-how-the-political-correctness-myth-was-born/
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11406-019-00094-4 Dzenis of King’s College
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14675986.2019.1540102 - Being safe from what and safe for whom? A critical discussion of the conceptual metaphor of ‘safe space’
https://ncdj.org/style-guide/ -
https://theconversation.com/political-correctness-its-origins-and-the-backlash-against-it-46862
https://www.economist.com/open-future/2018/09/10/has-political-correctness-gone-too-far