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 […]
Political Correctness Quotes
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 […]
I find it shameful that in obedience to the stupid, vile, dishonest, and for them extremely advantageous fashion of Political Correctness the usual opportunists – or better the usual parasites – exploit the word Peace. That in the name of the word Peace, by now more debauched than the words Love and Humanity, they absolve […]
The principal author of the text, Ms. Schwartz – (I apologize. In the first chapter of Guidelines, titled “Gender,” it says, in Section 1.41, lines 4-5: “Scholars normally refer to individuals solely by their full or last names, omitting courtesy titles.”) The principal author of the text, Schwartz – (No, I’m afraid that won’t do. […]
The two pillars of ‘political correctness’ are, a) willful ignorance, and b) a steadfast refusal to face the truth.
Being Politically Correct means always having to say you’re sorry.
