POLITICAL CORRECTNESS (PC).
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Essay Subject:
Discussion of hate speech and free speech.... More...
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5 Pages / 1125 Words
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Paper Abstract:
Discussion of hate speech and free speech. Campus speech codes. Media enforcement of PC on writers; example of Los Angeles Times guidelines. Issue of whether college campus speech codes violate free speech, or if they are the right way to address the problem of hate speech. Philosophy of the PC movement.
Paper Introduction:
One of the important issues today is described under the title "Political Correctness," or "PC." It is defined as efforts by certain political groups, primarily those on the left, to enforce a form of speech code so as to regulate speech to ban any term or phrase that might be considered demeaning to any group in society. One of the problems with these efforts is the vagueness of the terms used to define it--what is "demeaning," and how is it to be decided when a given phrase is demeaning or not? Richard Goldstein writes, "The perception of crisis is why hate speech has become a divisive issue among progressives. The distressing force of the current backlash against hard-won minority rights creates a fundamental conflict between our commitment to free expression and our desire to protect and preserve the victims of abuse. The result is an
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