>And what's the next step? Forbidding the use of the number 69?

Next step in which direction?

I figure the next step, once the pressure against the exaggerated PC newspeak builds up enough, there will be a swing in the opposite direction, so beans will be called beans again, and peas will be called peas.

Still, it is only a symptom. Whenever I saw language manipulated, there was a manipulator with an agenda completely outside of the linguistic area. The language is just a tool. And the whole PC speech is just an excuse for not really doing the right things. It gives polite names to real problems, and serves just as a pretext for not doing a thing about them.