{"id":8713,"date":"2013-06-13T10:14:13","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T10:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/06\/13\/copy-editors-and-political-correctness\/"},"modified":"2013-06-13T10:14:13","modified_gmt":"2013-06-13T10:14:13","slug":"copy-editors-and-political-correctness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/06\/13\/copy-editors-and-political-correctness\/","title":{"rendered":"Copy Editors and Political Correctness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">The Recent Referrers list pointed me to <a href=\"http:\/\/edwardfeser.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/copy-editors-and-political-correctness.html\" target=\"_self\">this old Feser post <\/a>that links to a similar&#0160;protest of mine.&#0160; Excerpt:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">At least the PC \u201cnon-sexist\u201d stuff is not entirely the fault of copy editors, however. Many publishers of academic books and journals insist on this \u201cinclusive language\u201d nonsense, and it is an outrage. It is bad enough that one has to listen to PC-whipped academics at colloquia and the like gratuitously inserting \u201cshe\u201d into their talks and comments wherever they can so as to prove their feminist bona fides. At least there one can just roll one\u2019s eyes, say a quick prayer for the poor soul, and move on to the refreshments. But to have this ideological use of language foisted upon one by an editor is no more defensible than a requirement that all submissions reflect (say) a commitment to direct reference theory or four-dimensionalist metaphysics.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Ed outdid himself with the coinage &#39;PC-whipped.&#39;&#0160; I trust my astute readers will understand&#0160;to which&#0160;similar expression he is alluding.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Recent Referrers list pointed me to this old Feser post that links to a similar&#0160;protest of mine.&#0160; Excerpt: At least the PC \u201cnon-sexist\u201d stuff is not entirely the fault of copy editors, however. Many publishers of academic books and journals insist on this \u201cinclusive language\u201d nonsense, and it is an outrage. It is bad &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/06\/13\/copy-editors-and-political-correctness\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Copy Editors and Political Correctness&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters","category-leftism-and-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}