Steven Pinker — The Euphemism Treadmill

This post is an op-ed that Steven Pinker published in the New York Times in 1994. Here's a link to the original. It's about a tendency toward euphemism that was in its infancy back then but has how now become the new norm.  The bewildering feature of political correctness is the mandated replacement of formerly unexceptionable … Continue reading Steven Pinker — The Euphemism Treadmill