Quotes About Political correctness

Let's face it: every campus has its share of students who can't quite comprehend that extreme political correctness is often born of the same intolerance and anti-intellectualism as standard-issue bigotry.

Political correctness is destroying our freedom. We have become the new puritans, demonising those who dare to question the official line on anything. As Udo Ulfkotte put it: 'We are the heirs of the Puritans who had a nasty habit of picking on little old ladies, demonising them and then burning them at the stake.

Like the Fellowship itself, Tolkien's philosophy fights. It conquers what George Orwell called the "smelly little orthodoxies" of political correctness that have twisted and wounded our souls. In other words, it is like the healing herb athelas (see LOTR, p. 193).

Trump broke free of this constraint, and it is safe to say that political correctness will never have the stranglehold on public discourse that it once did.

I guess she was being politically correct . . . or a weenie. Maybe that's the same thing.

It's about political correctness. Give the brown boy the top job because he's brown. We all know it. It has nothing to do with experience and suitability for the position.

I could not help but feel moved by the plight of these poor people. Perhaps it was not correct, politically speaking, for me to feel sympathy for them, but my mother would have been one of them if she were alive. She was a poor person, I was her poor child, and no one asks poor people if they want war.

Jesus declared that we should have one distinguishing mark: not political correctness or moral superiority, but love.

Political correctness is as coersive as any right-wing dogma, but it lescapes the tyranny charge because it locates its demands precisely upon feelings

The politically correct crowd is tolerant of all viewpoints, except those they disagree with.

Stating my views on Islam has brought me to court on charges of 'group insult' and incitement to racial hatred. I am being tried for voicing opinions that I - and my constituents - consider to be the truth. I am being tried for challenging the views that the ruling establishment wants to impose on us as the truth.

The problem with political correctness is that comedians have to set the bar according to what we are told by the most touchy, most emotionally unstable and fragile and least stoic people in the country.

Can't call 'em zombies anymore, " sighed Manny. He seemed almost wistful. "Now we gotta be all politically correct. It's like the Cold Wars never happened.

Today's Politically Correct "historical Jesuses" are no different, being mere clones of the scholars who design them.

Borro had not made his mind politically correct when closing it.

The way we reach decisions today, the manner in which we dialogue about issues, and the political correctness we see all around us are dehumanizing expressions of the anti-intellectualism in modern society when it comes to broad worldview issues. Rhetoric without reason, persuasion without argument are manipulation

89% of Democrat to Deplorable voters agree or strongly agree with, "Fighting back against political correctness motivated me to vote in 2016.

Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.

The problem is that it has become politically awkward to draw attention to absolutes of bad and good. In place of manners, we now have doctrines of political correctness, against which one offends at one's peril: by means of a considerable circular logic, such offences mark you as reactionary and therefore a bad person. Therefore if you say people are bad, you are bad.

Native American" is a politically correct creation of clueless white people who feel better using it, when in reality the Native Americans refer to themselves as Indians and snicker at those of us who don't

Native American" is a politically correct creation of clueless white people who feel better using it, when in reality the Native Americans refer to themselves as Indians and snicker at those of us who don't, but I digress).

Don't you just hate it when the war on terrorism interferes with political correctness and liberalism's equality fetish?

Washington, where the human rights of terrorists are often given high priority. And I am certain liberal politicians would defend their position to the death. Because everyone knows liberals have never been wrong about anything. You can ask them. Anytime.

There is a point where political correctness becomes an acid that erodes freedom.