ng to any group in society. One of the clear problems with these efforts is the vagueness of the terms used to define it--what is "demeaning," and how is it to be ascertained when a given phrase is demeaning or not? PC has invaded college campuses across the country, with speech codes designed to prevent students from offending other students through speech. The words considered demeaning can range from racial epithets to "sexist" language to words that may have lost any demeaning reference long ago but that are being thrown out today because of past sins. The response to these regulatory efforts can range from avid support to fears of the end of freedom as we know it:
Some dismiss political correctness (PC) as an irrelevance hyped up by the right; others see it as a leftist danger to the very fabric of American life; still others argue that it is plain passe.
Hughes notes that the accepted doctrine of the right is also hollow, and he calls this the doctrine of the patriotically correct. The subject of the confr
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