Quotes About Political correctness

No war in American history is in greater need of a politically incorrect—another word for honest—treatment than the Vietnam War, because the people who misreported the war, hammered vile lies about it into our national consciousness, and now tout its supposed "lessons" are the very same people who created "political correctness" in the first place.

People are so scared to really voice who they are. They want to be politically correct. Just scared to see what other people's perceptions are.

I'm too blunt, too matter-of-fact and not PC enough.

Few writers in history have ever been 'politically correct' (a notion that rapidly changes in any case), and there's no reason to imagine that gay writers will ever suit their readers, especially since that readership is splintered into ghettos within ghettos.

When was the last time you were super offended? I might be like, 'That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard!' Or, 'It's not my thing,' or, 'It was a stupid joke.' But there's such a sensitivity now. Political correctness has become really insidious.

Now anti-pornography feminists are trying to turn back the clock and shut women's sexuality away behind the locked doors of political correctness. Their first line of attack is to define the debate in their own terms. The first line of defense is to flatly reject such maneuvering.

Perhaps our own fin-de-sicle decadence takes the form, not of libertarian excess, but of the kind of over-the-top puritanism we see in political correctness and the assorted moral certainties of physical fitness fanatics, New Agers and animal-rights activists.

Cultural Marxism, now called Political Correctness is a loaded gun that one puts to their own head. The narrative illusion normalizes the abnormal and is an elitist weapon over minions for citizen vs. citizen policing for establishment control.

Political correctness is a loaded gun that the individual holds to their own head. Where laws can't stomp on freedom of speech, automatons rule other automatons via political correctness and social acceptance.

Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing their views on others. It is a heritage of communism, but they don't seem to see this.

I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism.

The reason people like the Young Turks is because we say things you're not allowed to say in Washington that are obviously true.

We are so beaten down by political correctness that most of us are numb to the surrender of America.

White man racist nominee would be forced to withdraw. Latina woman racist should also withdraw.

President Bush got a little upset with a reporter for calling him 'sir' instead of 'Mr. President.' Man, how upset is he going to be after the election when they start calling him George again?

Every political edict which is not based upon nature is wrong.

What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The definers want the power to name. And the defined are now taking that power away from them.

My liberal friends are such a bunch soft-headed, politically correct jerks.

He is so aware of being politically correct he refers to a taco as Hispanic food.

Epictetus would reject this manner of dealing with insults as being woefully counterproductive. He would point out, to begin with, that the political correctness movement has some untoward side effects. One is that the process of protecting disadvantaged individuals from insults will tend to make them hypersensitive to insults: They will, as a result, feel the sting not only of direct insults but of implied insults as well.

Which begs the question: how many degrees of separation are there between an anti-Semite and a politically correct anti-Christian?

Political correctness is actually a term coined by the Chinese dictator and mass murderer Mao Zedong. By "politically correct," Mao meant adhering to the official position of the Communist Party, which the comrades referred to as "the party line.

The Right's view of government and the Left's view of big business are both correct.

It is, I guess, politically correct, widely believed, that to say that American health care is the best in the world. It's not.