NOUN | political correctness | - | |
SYNO | political correctitude | political correctness |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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Usage Examples English
- Tom's political correctness emphasises his pomposity.
- This production galvanized conservative commentators who lauded it as a success over "political correctness".
- His viewpoints are typically antiquated and contrary to political correctness to an extreme degree.
- The drama featured the cast of the show being confronted by a physical manifestation of "political correctness" that uses "cancel culture" as an attack.
- Its liner notes feature one of Lawless' strongest statements about political correctness, inspired by the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
- In February 2003, Tebbit gave a speech to an audience of the Chartered Institute of Journalists at London's Reform Club in Pall Mall, urging journalists to reject political correctness in favour of "open, honest and vigorous debate".
- It was written by Tom Bailey and Greg Jameson, with songs by Allan Stelmach, and depicted Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu and their son Valentin in a piece of meta musical theatre that was also a comment upon celebrity culture and the role social media and political correctness play in creating social pariahs.
- The comedian Felix Dexter has said that he appreciated the humour of an innocent ignoramus confronting an expert with neither understanding the other, but felt that "a lot of the humour is laughing at black street culture and it is being celebrated because it allows the liberal middle classes to laugh at that culture in a safe context where they can retain their sense of political correctness".
- The film was of great cultural significance to its time, as "The New York Times" describes the magazine's 1970s period as "Hedonism {} in full sway and political correctness in its infancy."
- In the wake of the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting, Aderholt called it a terrorist attack and said, "we do not have the luxury of debating the political correctness of 'radical Islam'", adding that there was a need to "hunt down those who would do us harm".
- In 2017, Carolla and Dennis Prager began filming "No Safe Spaces", a documentary about political correctness at universities.
- She holds that many feminist critiques of science and philosophy are excessively concerned with political correctness.
- He has described the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as "a group of politicized scientists with one-sided opinions and one-sided assignments", and has claimed that some other top-level politicians do not publicly express their doubts about global warming being anthropogenic because "a whip of political correctness strangles their voices".
- "Political correctness" (adjectivally: "politically correct"; commonly abbreviated "PC") is a term used to describe language, policies, Early usage of the term "politically correct" by leftists in the 1970s and 1980s was as self-critical satire; usage was ironic, rather than a name for a serious political movement.
- The group's website lists its priorities as the maintaining the monarchy and the Union; protecting the "family unit"; restoring law and order; opposition to Britain's membership in the EU; promoting a "sound economy" and a "robust defence capability"; opposition to "political correctness" and maintaining traditional values.
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