Richard,

You have either misread or misunderstood this sentence:

"Here is an article which satirizes "newspeak" - the rebranding of contentious and controversial issues in order to somehow sanitize them and make them more palatable to those talking about them so they don't have to face up to what they are."

To clarify: that sentence focusses on newspeak, not PC.

Another word for "Newspeak" is "Spin".

In addition, there is no implication that the "subjects" of newspeak need to face up to anything, that is your inference.

The sentence, in short, says that Newspeak is used to redefine issues often falsely, to allow politicians to get away with heinous activity.

An example is David Camerons given reason for selling off the forests: which was that they need "re-energizing".

This is clearly newspeak for "cutting them down" to build leisure parks and non-leisure parks.

"Newspeak" is also used for other purposes.

In addition, I have said that "many people" criticize PC, not that I do so.

I would add that if you were to read my post as a whole, you would note that it is a response to the outrage and scandal provoked by the "heroin buffs" article, and indirectly also a response to the preposterous posturing on the alleged offensiveness of the original article.

But most of all, it serves to highlight Akes utter hypocrisy.