Political correctness has brought about a new vocabulary of words into our culture with terms like homophobic, multicultural, Eurocentric, disadvantaged, physically challenged, carbon footprint, sex worker, lookism, fattist, phallocentric, waitron, wimmin, differently abled, and
DWEM (dead white European males).
The goal: to "include" in the classroom and in published research an array of "marginalized" authors who allegedly had been pushed out of the "canon" by certain diffuse malevolent influences, many of them members of the "
DWEM" ("dead white European male") tribe.