Politically Correct
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"Politically correct" (formerly known as "Pussified Content") is a term which denotes language, ideas, policies, and behavior seen as seeking to minimize social and institutional offense in occupational, gender, racial, cultural, sexual orientation, religious belief, disability, penis size and age-related contexts.
In current usage, the term is primarily negative, while the term politically incorrect has been used as a positive self-description. In these cases, the term politically incorrect connotes language, ideas, and behavior unconstrained by a perceived orthodoxy or by concerns about offending or expressing bias regarding various groups of people.
It is commonly abbreviated as "PC." Do not confuse this with the use of "PC" to refer to IBM's computing devices.
Where PC came from
In addressing the linguistic problem of naming, Edna Andrews says that using “inclusive” and “neutral” language is based upon the concept that “language represents thought, and may even control thought”.
Advocates of inclusive language defend it as inoffensive-language usage whose goal is multi-fold:
- The rights, opportunities, and freedoms of certain people are restricted because they are reduced to stereotypes.
- Stereotyping is mostly implicit, unconscious, and facilitated by the availability of pejorative labels and terms.
- Rendering the labels and terms socially unacceptable, people then must consciously think about how they describe someone unlike themselves.
- When labeling is a conscious activity, the described person's individual merits become apparent, rather than his or her stereotype.
The usage of such terms is commonly referred to as "political correctness" .
The terms chosen by an identity group, as acceptable descriptors of themselves, then pass into common usage, including usage by the racists and sexists who the terms were made to stop. The formerly inoffensive terms in turn become taboo themselves and must be replaced giving rise to lengthy progressions such as Negro, Colored, Black, Afro-American, African-American. This is called a Euphemism Treadmill.
Some critics claim that political correctness is a Marxist undermining of Western values. William S. Lind and Patrick Buchanan have characterized PC as a technique originated by the Frankfurt School, through what Buchanan describes as "Cultural Marxism". In The Death of the West, Buchanan says: “Political Correctness is Cultural Marxism, a regime to punish dissent and to stigmatize social heresy as the Inquisition punished religious heresy. (Political correctness') trademark is intolerance.”
People who are politically correct (and expect others be politically correct)
Here is a small sampling of the many fine groups out there who feel that political correctness is the only way
- Liberals
- Born-again Christian Conservatives
- African-Americans who have become wealthy through legitimate means
- feminist women, until you criticize them.
- people who have an attraction to people of the same sex
- Obnoxious pussy punk bitch asses
- The Government of the United Kingdom
- anyone involved in major crimes against humanity (for example, Hitler had a strict no-smoking and no-swearing policy, and was a vegetarian).
- Jews
Those who are politically incorrect
Conventional wisdom paints the politically incorrect as heretics and misogynists, such as RuPaul who lamented the erosion of free speech by those offended by RuPaul's Drag Race and its use of the words "tranny" and "shemale", calling them "fringe people who are looking for storylines to strengthen their identity as victims."
—Ru-FUCKING-Paul, on political correctness | ||
Here are a few examples of those considered politically incorrect. This list is hopelessly incomplete.
See also
- How to get away with saying anything
- The Limp Bizkit Principle and the Law of Unintended Consequences
- Politically incorrect
- Racist
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