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 […]
