When fraternities, which act as primary residential units for many universities, include and exclude members as they wish, no one labels them champions of political correct, but that is, of course, precisely what they are. It is just that the “politics” by which they are made respectable is too mainstream to attract attention. When the […]
Political Correctness Quotes
Every sect clamors for toleration when it is down… The doctrine which from the very first origin of religious dissensions, has been held by all bigots of all sects, when condensed into a few words, and stripped of rhetorical disguise, is simply this: I am in the right and you are in the wrong. When […]
Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.
Where women, oops, wopersons, no doubt personsstruate. It’s “The Language Personifesto” and a personsace to society with their personsdacious nonsense! The faculty obviously have lower IQs than Doberperson Pinschers, Gerperson Shepherds and personatees. With that personstality, they should be sent to a personsagerie where they can get treatment for a personstal illness! Would you want […]
Perhaps no wartime U-turn, though, has been more surprising than the conservative wing’s sudden, lusty embrace of political correctness in its effort to stamp out public dissent regarding the war on terrorism. The same right-wing ideologues who spent the last 10 years sounding alarms about the chilling effect of attempts to curb unpopular speech have […]
The pejorative term ‘political correctness’ was adapted to express disapproval of the enlargement of etiquette to cover all people, in spite of this being a principle to which all Americans claim to subscribe.
All too often over-looked in discussions of the matter is that at the root of the bias-free language movement lies a commendable sentiment -to make language less wounding or demeaning to those whose sex, race, physical condition or circumstances leave them vulnerable to the raw power of words… this is a matter that deserves rather […]
Sufficiently advanced political correctness is indistinguishable from irony.
The smashers of language are looking for a new justice among words. It does not exist. Words are unequal and unjust.
The pharisaical, malefic, and incogitant Guidelines for Bias-Free Writing is a product of the pointy-headed wowsers at the Association of American University Presses who established a Task Force on Bias-Free Language filled with cranks, pokenoses, blowhards, four-flushers, and pettifogs. This foolish and contemptible product of years wasted in mining the shafts of indignation has been […]
