"As the social critic and author Robert Hughes put it in his brilliant 1993 book The Culture of Complaint, 'paleo-conservatives and free-speech therapists are both on the same wagon, the only difference being what they want to ban.'
But re-reading Hughes's book I am confident of one thing: in another
generation or two, language that now seems so inclusive and tolerant,
words designed to create a 'safe place' for discourse, will undoubtedly
seem jarring, if not insulting. Language police will be insisting on new
argot."
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