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 Political correctness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Some liberal and progressive commentators, however, argue that the term "political correctness" was fabricated by United States conservatives around 1980 and defined as a way to reframe the political scene in the United States.
Georgia (1793), where it clearly means that the statement it refers to is not literally correct, owing to the political status of the United States as it was understood at that time:
Another involves the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis, which states that a language's grammatical categories shape its speakers' ideas and actions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_correctness   (2597 words)

  
 BBC NEWS Politics Howard speech in full
The growing compensation culture is partly the result of political correctness.
But such measures do not constitute political correctness.
But there are specific measures that we can and will take to challenge it.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3603966.stm   (2846 words)

  
 Political Correctness Watch
Many pro-Bill advocates accept "the 1936 Stalin Constitution" case as legitimate example of failure by government and political elites to abide by a written Bills of Rights, but essentially argue "that would never happen here".
It is NOT racist to call these people "illegal aliens" In fact, "illegal aliens" is the only term used in federal laws and regulations to describe criminals (and they ARE criminals) who come into our country illegally.
Until recently the Tufts Chaplaincy used to feature a disclaimer on its website associating itself with "liberal religion." The disclaimer is no longer there, but the attitude persists.
http://pcwatch.blogspot.com/2004_04_01_pcwatch_archive.html   (13795 words)

  
 Political Correctness Watch
THIS may be the ultimate example of Political Correctness -- from the Unhinged Kingdom
With a spiralling murder rate and poor police-community relations following the Rodney King riots and the Rampart corruption scandal, the city appointed a new chief to clean up its act.
Within the small legal system of the college, they face formal charges - some star-chamber proceeding - and punishment.
http://pcwatch.blogspot.com/2004_12_01_pcwatch_archive.html   (15408 words)

  
 Political Correctness: The Scourge of Our Times
It is the nature of Western Civilization to be civilized — respectful of others and concerned with correcting injustices.
Political Correctness has given the state (Castro) complete control of speech.
Always following the dictums of the only political party left: the Communist Party.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/4/4/121115.shtml   (2059 words)

  
 Political Correctness Cartoons
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You don't have to be a Racist to work here, but if you are I don't suppose anyone will notice.
http://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/p/political_correctness.asp   (857 words)

  
 Political Correctness
All must meet a political test - of correct thinking and progress.
Secondly, the Politically Correct are more intolerant of dissent than traditional liberals or even conservatives.
This is the liberal view of political Correctness.
http://www.liberalsindia.com/relevence/PoliticalCorrectness.php   (4262 words)

  
 Debunking political correctness
They indicate that a growing number of Americans may finally be seeing through the political correctness that blinkers so much of the government's perspective on Islamic militancy.
Political correctness leaves live bombs overlooked by democrats
This is the same political correctness that searches my 75-year-old mother-in-law or Al Gore as much as it searches young male Arab or Muslim airplane passengers.
http://www.danielpipes.org/article/1182   (602 words)

  
 Peter Suber, "Unsimplifying Political Correctness"
I hope that at Earlham we can separate the issues of the public environment, where the complaints from the right are justified, from the substance of academic policies, where the arguments on the left are compelling.
Conservatives are correct that much abuse is pure speech that we may have to tolerate; but the left is correct that much abuse is harassment that goes beyond speech and may be prohibited without limiting anyone's rights.
But on the contrary, education would be impossible and pointless, except in the form of submission to authority.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/pc.htm   (2327 words)

  
 Political Correctness - The Facilitator Of Terrorism
At its core, PC desires the destruction of Western civilization as we once knew it.
Consider this: Osama bin Laden is a Saudi-born militant who has dedicated his life to launching terrorism against the United States.
His father, Yuri Glazov, was a Soviet dissident during the Brezhnev era, who signed the Letter of Twelve, denouncing Soviet human rights abuses.
http://www.protectourborders.org/pc.html   (3334 words)

  
 Political Correctness: The New Communism
They have tried to make out that we are radically different from people in Britain, New Zealand, Canada and the United States.
"Political Correctness" is the name given to a set of political policies that have been promoted in Australia, New Zealand, Britain, the United States and Canada since the 1960s.
But their "politically correct" propaganda had fallen on fertile ground, that is, the Catholic population of Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States.
http://www.students.org.au/political/correctness   (3607 words)

  
 The Triumph of Political Correctness
It seems only yesterday that cases of PC began appearing in the press and the evening news.
Plato's solution to Athens' social problems, of which the judicial murder of Socrates was symptomatic, was the creation of an elite academy of philosopher-kings to the rule a state based on the Spartan military model.
The police state would no longer require vast bureaucracies of agents and informants, Gulags and labor camps, to suppress dissent and achieve its utopian social goals; it need only endoctrinate men to police their own thoughts.
http://members.aol.com/williefank/pc-essay.htm   (13408 words)

  
 Townhall.com :: Columns :: Campus Roots of Political Correctness by David Limbaugh - May 14, 2003
Regardless of whether Sullivan is correct in this particular case -- and I believe he probably is -- we can't ignore that political correctness can have real-life ramifications.
Which is why it is appalling that many of our college and high school campuses have become incubation centers for politically correct dogma.
School officials said the design firm expressed concern "with the single-gender ethnicity of the Minuteman, and the fact he's carrying a firearm (in the logo) is also a concern."
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/davidlimbaugh/dl20030514.shtml   (931 words)

  
 SoCalPundit » Political Correctness
This is a must read (and must act) article.
It is not lost on many traditional Americans that of all the cases that have eroded the more conservative of American values, The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has led the charge in destroying this fine country with its Left-wing, moon bat decisions.
Islamic leaders are rivaled only by liberal Democrats in their inability to see past their own induced dogma in the service of Democracy.
http://socalpundit.com/blog/index.php/category/political-correctness   (1298 words)

  
 Charleton Heston Speech
And as long as you validate that and abide it...
You are using language not authorized for public consumption!" But I am not afraid.
In that same spirit, I am asking you to disavow cultural correctness with massive disobedience of rogue authority, social directives and onerous laws that weaken personal freedom.
http://mizai.tripod.com   (2164 words)

  
 ShrinkWrapped: Political Correctness & the Denial of Reality: Part I
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There is no problem assessing the reality of the situation but there is also the appreciation that calling attention to the issue is unnecessary and can be painful to the person involved.
Political Correctness, on the other hand, requires a denial and disavowal of unpleasant aspects of reality.
http://shrinkwrapped.blogs.com/blog/2005/06/political_corre.html   (1485 words)

  
 LinknZona
We need protection in our land, in the air, at sea, and we need the protection that borders open only to those who wish us well and respect us enough to obey our laws will bring us.
However, Senator McCain is a RINO darling of the left wing, a Teddy Toady, far more politically correct than President Bush, and at least as bad as President Bush on illegal immigration, amnesty, and free citizenship.
Caller after caller to my radio show claim to be lifelong Republicans who will vote for Democrats for the first time ever.
http://linknzona.blogspot.com   (4172 words)

  
 political correctness
Please see discussion on the talk page.Political correctness is a term used to
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http://www.osservatorioeni.net/144_political_correctness.html   (124 words)

  
 Talk Politics - Political Correctness
11:44, Categories: Politics, Civil Liberties, Political Correctness, 1628 words
These students were acting within their rights ad should not have been expelled
Clubs and societies are, after all, only a formalised expression of the concept of community and like all communities their are times when what the community needs is space to debate issues and make decisions for the community without having the rest of the world looking over its shoulder.
http://talkpolitics.users20.donhost.co.uk/index.php?cat=42   (1833 words)

  
 Psychodynamics of Political Correctness
This case involved a sophomore student in an introductory Political Science course.
In politics, the superego presses toward a solution that can be applied universally and then toward the acceptance and maintenance of that system.
This is intolerable to the self, which must be permanently vigilant against this perception of badness, political incorrectness, at the core of its own being.
http://www.sba.oakland.edu/faculty/schwartz/PCJABS.htm   (8093 words)

  
 P.C. R.I.P. 2003 (The Death of Political Correctness)
FIRE was founded in 1999 by University of Pennsylvania professor Alan Charles Kors and civil liberties attorney Harvey Silverglate and has since fought more than 800 cases of P.C.-oriented speech repression at over 200 colleges.
As the cliche goes, they were just doing what the State had ordered them to do, even in homicide.
Political Correctness, to use the tired and loaded phrase.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1001117/posts   (4474 words)

  
 The Jawa Report v3.0 Beta Archives
Keeping out and facilitating the expulsion of politically undesirable foreigners has been at the heart of this country's immigration legislation since 1903 when Congress barred the admission of anarchists in response to President McKinley's assassination.
Islamic activism should be treated as the grounds for the exclusion or deportation of any alien, regardless of his status or ties in the United States.
It is simply not politically prudent in the United Kingdom to speak ill of terrorists.
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/cat_political_correctness.php   (5223 words)

  
 Technorati Tag: political correctness
A tag is like a subject or category.
Term Papers on Political Correctness Established site sells downloadable term papers on political correctness.
Perspectives.com Visit one of the world's great political opinion sites and be part of the solution.
http://www.technorati.com/tag/political+correctness   (489 words)

  
 Reason: Under the Radar: Political correctness never died.
This case is one of many recent examples of politically correct censorship of campus journalism.
Reason: Under the Radar: Political correctness never died.
Eric Wasserman, executive director of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), says many people have a knee-jerk reaction to the very phrase political correctness, seeing it as an old story.
http://www.reason.com/0407/co.cy.under.shtml   (866 words)

  
 Political Correctness
This site has a monthly digest of Politically Correct flummery.
"Fortuyn may or may not be a martyr in the war against fundamentalist Islam, but he is almost certainly a martyr in the war on political correctness.
Insofar as something called "political correctness" proscribes certain opinions from being expressed and debated, every critical thinker should be against it - for the reasons explained by J.S. Mill.
http://www.austhink.org/critical/pages/political_correctness.html   (1332 words)

  
 The American Thinker
But just a few days ago, Political Correctness made in necessary for CNN to get a court order allowing it to televise the bloated bodies of the children and elderly African Americans who drowned in New Orleans.
PC has kept the liberal media from telling the truth about all the ills that the Left has inflicted on us with for decades, from the lies about heterosexual AIDS thirty years ago to the breakdown of the Black family under the tender mercies of the welfare state.
The life you save may be your own.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=4814   (815 words)

  
 Open Directory - Society: Issues: Language: Political Correctness
"Political Correctness" and the American Historical Profession - Paper arguing that right-wingers have long been imposing their own ideology, with sanctions against speech going against established orthodoxies.
Politically Correct Unix Programming - List of names of programs and terms from Unix and how they would be made politically correct.
Camille Paglia on Political Correctness - A libertine/liberal feminist perspective.
http://dmoz.org/Society/Issues/Language/Political_Correctness   (290 words)

  
 political correctness - definition of political correctness by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.
This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
Being or perceived as being overconcerned with such change, often to the exclusion of other matters.
political incorrectness - the use of expressions or actions that can be perceived to exclude or marginalize or insult groups who are socially disadvantaged or discriminted against
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/political+correctness   (162 words)

  
 The Pitfalls of Political Correctness: Euphemisms Excoriated
Euphemisms and the politically correct language which they exemplify are sometimes only prissy, sometimes ridiculous, and sometimes tiresome.
BE IT RESOLVED by the National Federation of the Blind in convention assembled in the city of Dallas, Texas, this 9th day of July, 1993, that the following statement of policy be adopted:
The form has changed (in fact, everything is very "politically correct"), but the old notions of inferiority and second-class status still remain.
http://www.blind.net/bpg00005.htm   (861 words)

  
 Political correctness… the right’s imagined enemy
It clearly is or it wouldn’t vex the political right so.
The war on political correctness is a mechanism by which rightwing thinkers can explain what they’re against and be a little rude.
Instead, we had Polly Toynbee supporting a view I share: ‘Political correctness is just good manners.
http://stephennewton.com/2006/01/political-correctness-rights-imagined.html   (609 words)

  
 Political-correctness - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Political-correctness
Shorthand term for a set of liberal attitudes about education and society, and the terminology associated with them.
To be politically correct is to be sensitive to unconscious racism and sexism and to display environmental awareness.
http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Political-correctness   (131 words)

  
 A Quick Primer on Political Correctness
People of Color—The politically correct term for ethnic minorities.
It is based on the assumption (seldom stated as it is here) that average citizens are too stupid to know what’s for their own good, and that they will unthinkingly accept whatever they read or hear in the news.
This type of prof is known as politically correct, or PC, for short.
http://www.contumacy.org/14PoliticalCorrectness.html   (1322 words)

  
 The Historical Roots of "Political Correctness"
A review of the historical roots of Political Correctness would not be complete without reference to the psychological process of dialectical stages of operant conditioning by words that have been directed against the larger body of Western Man in the generic sense before Frankfurt School Critical Theory came to be applied against American white males.
It seeks to impose a uniformity in thought and behavior among all Americans and is therefore totalitarian in nature.
The visible evidence that Political Correctness reigns supreme over the American landscape is not a nice sight for the eyes of a traditional American to behold.
http://arcofcc.freeservers.com/Documents/pc.html   (3283 words)

  
 Tongue Tied
The classrooms are already full of Leftist politics so it can't be that politically controversial matters may not be mentioned in public school classrooms.
But its president is obviously something of a moderate.
There is no claim that his views interfered with his teaching in any way.
http://www.tonguetied.us   (2770 words)

  
 Political Correctness
Although political correctness was founded with good intent, it does more harm than good.
Political correctness, the underlying ideal, is the "particular set of attitudes about the world that its proponents maintain should be actively promoted." [Clark 369] Proponents of political correctness, or PC, had good intentions in devising the idea, but it has serious flaws.
This raises the question of whether it is appropriate to censor ideas that are not created to offend certain groups.
http://www.onlineessays.com/essays/issues/iss119.php   (1344 words)

  
 More CIA Revelations — Political Correctness Kills
I am not so sure the commissars of political correctness, who so dominates our media, our government bureaucracies and other institutions, are willing to unshackle the will of the American people and allow us to destroy the terrorists and the nations that back them.
Consider how there has been practically no criticism by the major networks of President Clinton's stewardship of our national security agencies.
But the commissars of political correctness that control the major media will have none of it.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/9/30/193757.shtml   (1769 words)

  
 VDARE.com: 03/23/05 - Moi? Anti-Mexican?
her] is a political consultant and former chief of staff for a member of the California State Assembly.
It is the American government that does nothing to solve the problem of illegal immigration for any of us—citizens, immigrants or Mexicans entrapped in this moral hazard.
The articles on VDARE.com are brought to you by the Lexington Research Institute and The Center for American Unity.
http://www.vdare.com/bevens/050323_summit.htm   (1025 words)

  
 CampusProgress.org The Nassau Notepad: 'Political Correctness'
Lest we forget, Summers has staunchly defended 'political correctness' when it suited his interest, and he clearly has no problem suggesting that discourses should be censored when he has a personal disagreement with what's being said.
To be fair, however, Summers' detractors regarding his remarks on women and science often made the wrong accusation against him.
Alan Dershowitz has gone further off the reservation with this defense of Larry Summers.
http://www.campusprogress.org/page/community/post_group/main/CQyp   (200 words)

  
 Urban Legends Reference Pages: Inboxer Rebellion (Master/Slave)
Along with these linguistic changes have come tales of the "political correctness run amok" variety — cases where certain usages were
The County of Los Angeles has requested that equipment vendors avoid using the industry term "Master/Slave" in product descriptions and labeling.
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/master.asp   (865 words)

  
 Political Correctness 101a - A MoveOff Site
Political Correctness remains just what it was intended to be: a sophisticated and dangerous form of censorship and oppression, imposed upon the citizenry with the ultimate goal of manipulating, brainwashing and destroying our society.
Is government control of your speech what you want?
Efforts to force economic, social, and intellectual equality serve only to restrict thought, intelligence, and productive capacity.
http://pctruth.ws   (176 words)

  
 Nation of Political Conservatives
is a discussion and opinion forum for Conservative and Libertarian thought and as such, isn't "Politically Correct" with the current trend of liberal "big government" everything.
If you purchase books from Amazon.com thru our search box, a portion of your purchase will help us keep this site running.
Welcome surfer to one of the net's Politically Incorrect sites!
http://nopc.antares-dev.com   (72 words)

  
 Politically Incorrect- Let's be Politically Incorrect
This site highlights the folly and dangers of political correctness and how it is changing our lives for the worst.
http://www.politicallyincorrect.me.uk   (20 words)

  
 Murphy Brown: Political Correctness - TV.com
Tell the world what you think of Political Correctness, write a review for this episode.
See all Political Correctness Cast & Crew »
A series of on-air comments made by Peter and Murphy gets the staff forced to attend a seminar on political correctness.
http://tv.com/murphy-brown/political-correctness/episode/35619/summary.html   (178 words)

  
 Adrants » Boozing Chimps Victim of Political Correctness
For some reason, the activist group thinks this ad, which is plainly humor, will suddenly cause a mass increase in cruelty to apes and poaching of chimps for use in other ads.
Adrants » Boozing Chimps Victim of Political Correctness
http://www.adrants.com/2004/05/boozing-chimps-victim-of-political.php   (145 words)

  
 Political Corrections
(RealAudio stream courtesy of The Michael Parenti Political Archive)
http://deoxy.org/pc.htm   (2018 words)

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