The term "political correctness" has always appalled me, reminding me of Orwell's "Thought Police" and fascist regimes.

The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.

No matter what you do, no matter what you say, someone out there will proclaim how outraged they are, because they think it's their job to be offended by every God damn thing. It makes people feel important. It makes them feel powerful. It makes them feel like their opinion is relevant.

There's a grosser irony about Politically Correct English. This is that PCE purports to be the dialect of progressive reform but is in fact - in its Orwellian substitution of the euphemisms of social equality for social equality itself - of vastly more help to conservatives and the US status quo than traditional SNOOT prescriptions ever were.

Censorship of ideas or images or words is wrong.

Political correctness kills discussion.