[political correctness] the left-right divide

In New York, a group of publishers’ some years back issued official guidelines to prospective writers as to topics which must now be avoided in any literary work: “Abortion, death or disease, criminals, magic, politics, religion, unemployment, weapons, violence, poverty, divorce, slavery, alcohol or addiction, women as mothers or doing household work, men as lawyers, doctors or plumbers, African citizens in any negative light." [Diane Ravitch] This sort of thing leaves me in quiet apoplexy, mouth opening and closing, not unlike a fish. More here.