# Unintended consequences of political correctness

Canonical page: https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2008-03-22-unintended-consequences-of-political-correctness

The piece argues that political correctness can entrench new linguistic frames that make affirmative racial identification difficult to discuss.

Blog post · Hermeneutic Heretic · 22 March 2008

## Where it lives

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## About this item

- Type: Blog post
- Published: 22 March 2008
- Published in: Hermeneutic Heretic
- Language: English

Topics: political-correctness, race, framing, public-discourse.

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