'Identity Politics'

rc-am rcollins at netlink.com.au
Thu Sep 23 23:22:01 PDT 1999


Jim wrote:


> Aren't all these attempts at policing the language precisely what the
critics objected to as political correctness? I'm not sure any of us is in a position to 'retire' language that is in use.<

given the thread began with the same people claiming that identity politics was a pragmatic necessity who now claim certain words should be removed from our lexicon (identity politics, political correctness), perhaps the issue is not so much that they are being 'retired from use' as being removed from criticism and discussion?

Angela _________



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