I met JJ again at a mathematics conference sponsored by The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Just like the first time, he was sitting alone at a table in a corner of the hotel bar, gazing at me across the room with dark, inscrutable eyes.
As soon as I sat down, he pushed a piece of paper in my direction. “Here,” he said laconically. “For your students.”
Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing their views on others. It is a heritage of communism, but they don’t seem to see this.
Doris Lessing
Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thought-crime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.
George Orwell
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(2009). Political Correctness. In: Constanda, C. (eds) Dude, Can You Count?. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-539-0_10
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