I wish for you the courage to call it what it is: Political correctness is just tyranny with manners. Let’s face it: Who here can say what you really believe? Who here doesn’t edit your words and cleanse your thoughts to mollify the reactionaries? Whose zeal and fervor and passion for greatness isn’t straitjacketed by […]
Political Correctness Quotes
It is in vain to set up a language police to stem living developments.
After a couple of years with the culturally correct crosshairs trained on my chest, I must admit it was a whole lot easier being Moses. But I can say this: get involved with a politically unpopular cause and you’ll quickly find out who your friends are. I’ve been blasted from Time Magazine to The Washington […]
Is this then what academia is to be reduced to, the squabbling tribalism of a bunch of Balkan clans? Sometimes it seems so, that there is only self-interest and group interest. Women fight for women’s texts, gays for gay, blacks for black, white males for theirs. Since the old unifying generalities with their assumption of […]
People who talk about political correctness as being a kind of thought police have no idea of what a thought police is. But political correctness does have the same mentality. It means that intellectual argument is doomed. Objective truth simply becomes a thing to jeer at, because obviously there’s no such thing as objectivity – […]
The quickest way to end political correctness would be to start calling woman ‘vaginal americans.’
We want to create a sort of linguistic Lourdes, where evil and misfortune are dispelled by a dip in the waters of euphemism.
Political Correctness is essentially undemocratic; it assumes that we are all too fragile to endure the open and frank debate that democracy demands; it assumes that offense is the greatest sin; it brings us all to a lowest common denominator of gagged silence. I hate how this came to become a prerequisite to being liberal; […]
It is a measure of our natural deference to America, cultural and military, that when the New York Times rang up and asked for a piece, I was thrilled. So I sat up for an hour or so, cracked out an article on Blair, Bush and Iraq, and fired it off to the charming NY […]
A sobering thought is occurring to many on campus: People on the left are now getting caught in the anti-free-speech policies set up in the past 20 years to silence dissent. These speech codes and anti-bias and anti-harassment policies are based on the idea that hurting anyone’s feelings is a form of assault. Universities typically […]
