https://thelip.robertsharp.co.uk/2004/03/02/bogus-is-the-new-black-2/ Diversity and Multiculturalism Thu, 12 Jan 2006 02:33:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8 https://thelip.robertsharp.co.uk/2004/03/02/bogus-is-the-new-black-2/#comment-18 Thu, 12 Jan 2006 02:33:32 +0000 http://www.thelip.sowood.co.uk/?p=41#comment-18 […] First, I don’t think that refinement of language is the same thing as Orwellian Newspeak. The language that Political Correctness advocates against is still understood, and the concepts they express still exist. I am thinking here of the casual language that actually demeans and therefore harms other people, who we are supposed to be co-existing with in the Polis. For example, I think magazines like Nuts and Zoo are ‘un-PC’. Why? Because I think they endorse a casual objectification of women. That they then delight in this un-PC reputation makes them even more preposterous. Another more subtle example of this is the language surrounding asylum seekers, as Katherine Houreld explained in the LIP. They are often branded as ‘illegal’ or ‘bogus’ in the press, despite being neither, by definition. They are not illegal immigrants. […]

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