TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cyril Levitt
AU  - Scott Davies
AU  - Neil McLaughlin
PY  - 2021
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - Mistaken Identities
T2  - The Second Wave of Controversy over «Political Correctness»
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1090843
N2  - «Political Correctness» refers to the initiatives of feminists, multiculturalists, and postmodernists to promote cultural sensitivity, social inclusion, and protections against harassment. Though the media has covered its more salacious incidences over the past decade, the dominant understanding of this controversy - as a political war between a stodgy Right and a united Left - is misleading. In the past five years, a new «second wave» of controversy over political correctness has presented a distinctive set of issues, which has unveiled a core of enduring problems that strike at the heart of liberal democracy. This book collects the work of seventeen authors, all of whom situate themselves somewhere from the center to the left of the political spectrum and who challenge the view of political correctness as a simple square-off between leftists and neo-conservatives. They examine the challenges posed by political correctness to individual rights, universalism and equality, and science and reason.
KW  - social inclusion, harassment, democracy, cultural sensitivity
LA  - English
ER  -