1	Politically (In)correct? Sally Burgess Shaina Adams Elise Eckhardt
2	What is political correctness and where did it come from? The origins are vague Some argue that it started with communism Lesbian feminist movement of the 1980’s College campuses in the early 90’s Media Definition: “theories and practices that are designed to end injustices based on sex, race, class, and other social variables” (Kurzweil and Philips).
3	Backlash! Many viewed political correctness as: Mindless conformity Censorship Brainwashing Violation of our freedom of speech
4	The Result Political correctness has been trivialized by the debate over speech codes and has produced cultural comedy (i.e. vertically challenged, sanitary engineer, etc.) The term “PC” now has comic and ridiculous associations. The PC movement has come full circle.
5	Hypothesis A decrease in political correctness will produce an increase in rudeness.
6	Method Content Analysis Searched www.amazon.com for the number of books published with the word “Rude” in the title and again with the words “Political Correctness” in the title The publication dates ranged from 1962 to 2002 We assumed that books with these words in the title reflect the trends in society
7	Validity
8	Reliability Using a different search engine might have created different results. Using different search words such as rudeness or politically correct might pull up different numbers of books
9	Data
10	Results Political Correctness and Rudeness seem to follow the same trend (they have a direct correlation). Current trend is that both rudeness and political correctness are on the rise.
11	Conclusions Hypothesis that a decrease in political correctness will produce an increase in rudeness is not supported. Thus, the political correctness movement reinforces rudeness
12	Examples of Political Correctness Nine months later (not to minimize the physical strain on the queen in the interim), a healthy pink pre-woman was welcomed into the castle. Many gender-neutral names were considered for her, suck as Connor, Tucker, and Taylor, that might have lessened any sexual discrimination she would encounter on her career path (for, while she was born a princess, her parents would never presume to limit her future to one of mindless leisure and privilege). After talking to a few image consultants, they decided to give her the name Rosamond Sleeping Person of Better-Than-Average Attractiveness “’Mer-persun’ is the common term,” Kelpie advised him, “although in my opinion it emphasizes the human part of our makeup at the expense of our fishiness. Its an ongoing debate, you understand.” - The Little Mer-persun
13	Sources www.amazon.com http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/4/4/121115.shtml http://www.newaus.com.au/us332pc.html Kurzweil, Edith and William Phillips, eds. Our Country, Our Culture: The Politics of Political Correctness. Boston: Partisan Review Press, 1994. Garner, James Finn. “Sleeping Persun of Better-Than-Average Attractiveness”, Once Upon a More Enlightened Time: More Politically Correct Bedtime Stories. New York: Macmillan Inc., 1995, p. 66. Garner, James Finn. “The Little Mer-Persun”, Once Upon a More Enlightened Time: More Politically Correct Bedtime Stories. New York: Macmillan Inc., 1995, p. 34.