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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Consider if you will, the PC'ness of Encyclopedia Brown. Of course, when it was written, PC was different. There was a strong work ethic, being smart was good, and the bad guys were people who were trying to con people and take short cuts. As I said, YA does tend to be PC by it's very nature because it's intended to both entertain and instruct.
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If that is how you are going to define political correctness, then YA fiction has
always been overwhelmed by it. So the article author's point is meaningless.