Political Correctness Quotes

I hate political correctness.

When people laugh at me, they are not laughing in the way that they normally would at a comedian. They are laughing with relief, because the truth has been spoken, and political correctness has not strangled this particular gigastar.

It’s one thing to decry and defy political correctness in the name of efficiently achieving clarity or revealing an honest truth. But it’s quite another thing entirely to support name-calling and nastiness.

While many liberals have dismissed the idea of political correctness as a right-wing manufactured hysteria, it is in fact a real thing.

Political correctness kills discussion.

Companies make a big point of how their culture is all about ‘bad news first,’ but when it comes to people, they are suddenly scared to communicate bad news out of some mistaken feeling of politeness or political correctness.

It’s not hard to see how accusations against Trump as a racist and misogynist would be met with eye rolls and knowing murmurs of ‘political correctness’ by people who have had their worldview constantly caricatured and demonized by the cultural elites in academia, media and politics.

Political Correctness doesn’t change us, it shuts us up.

Political correctness is a thing of leftist radicals.

Political correctness is evil.

National Standards was not a narrative of past events but was leftwing revisionism and Political Correctness.

I can’t stand people who look into the camera and look into the eyes of millions of people and wax political correctness.

Essential to the self-image of conservatives is the notion that they are enemies of an established orthodoxy, insurgents against the dogmatic political correctness that predominates on the Left.

When people talk about political correctness, the only element of any value is good manners.

Whether it’s people walking off ‘The View’ when Bill O’Reilly makes a statement about radical Islam or Juan Williams being fired for expressing his opinion, over-reaching political correctness is chipping away at the fundamental American freedoms of speech and expression.

If we are ever going to rescue our nation from selfish entitlement, political correctness, and collectivism, we must start sending citizen-statesman warriors to fight for us in Washington, and I believe Col. Maness will do just that.

Political correctness may make for smooth edges, but it does little for the imagination and nothing for the arts. Writers work best when they are exploring at the outer limits of what is traditional, acceptable, or conventional.

Many black youths are defying stereotypes, achieving good academic results, finding employment and contributing to their communities. But helping those who fall behind is not an exercise in political correctness, it is a precisely what a compassionate – and sensible – state should concern itself with.

One of my goals in life is to watch political correctness shrivel up and die (as it should be for any true conservative).

It’s this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.

We are so beaten down by political correctness that most of us are numb to the surrender of America.

We need less political correctness and more political courage.

The critical importance of honest journalism and a free flowing, respectful national conversation needs to be had in our country. But it is being buried as collateral damage in a war whose battles include political correctness and ideological orthodoxy.

My God, war is not about bathrooms. War is not about political correctness or words that are meaningless. War is about winning.

Along with ‘normal‘ people in this country, I’m sick and tired of political correctness.

I will never be a fan of any kind of political correctness: I think it’s instant death to creativity.

The core problem in our society is political correctness.

There is a term called political correctness, and I consider it to be a euphemism for political cowardice.

Transcend political correctness and strive for human righteousness.

I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism.

Once citadels of free expression and occasional revolutionary ideas, today many American colleges have endorsed political correctness.

Political correctness means nothing to me. Nothing. It’s the new Puritanism, darling. Preventing us from expressing ourselves.

What is political correctness, if not essentially redemptive speech? Soon liberalism had become a cultural identity that offered Americans a way to think of themselves as decent people. To be liberal was to be good.

Political correctness is about denial, usually in the weasel circumlocutory jargon which distorts and evades and seldom stands up to honest analysis.

I am politically incorrect, that’s true. Political correctness to me is just intellectual terrorism. I find that really scary, and I won‘t be intimidated into changing my mind. Everyone isn’t going to love you all the time.

In an age of political correctness, even the most apparent gender assertions are dismissed as ignorance.

I think the big problem this country has is being politically correct. I’ve been challenged by so many people, and I don’t frankly have time for total political correctness. And to be honest with you, this country doesn’t have time either.

Bastions of free-flowing discussion with civil exchange are the academic ideal. But during my time in academia, it became increasingly clear that prisons of political correctness with peer-engendered public shaming are now the academic reality.

I detest politics, to be honest with you. It’s a cesspool. And I don’t think I would fare well in that cesspool because I don’t believe in political correctness and I certainly don’t believe in dishonesty.

Quite frankly, I think political correctness is the worst form of censorship. You’re not allowed to speak your mind unless you’re black, or unless you’re a terrorist, or unless you’re an Arab or a minority people. Then you can say what you like. But if you are like a lot of us you are not supposed to say certain things.

Political correctness is the deadliest of political weaponry.

I am absolutely opposed to political correctness. You cannot confront hate speech until you’ve experienced it. You need to hear every side of the issue instead of just one.

Britain is obsessed with political correctness.

Donald Trump doesn’t speak like a politician, and that’s made some people uncomfortable. In a world of political correctness run amok, his straight talk has been a breath of fresh air.

I’m a fan of the kind of political correctness that is about not promoting prejudice. But some people in America are offended by equality because when you’ve had privilege for so long, equality feels like oppression.

Political correctness, to me, is an enemy.

I just can’t imagine anyone in the United States military who would not understand the distinction between a jihadist and a radical Islamist and Muslims. I think that is snobbery from elitists. It goes to the issue, it seems to me, of an orthodoxy, a political correctness that has infiltrated the U.S. Army.

As with ‘feminism,’ not to mention ‘liberalism’ and ‘conservatism,’ ‘political correctness’ tends to mean what you want it to mean, which also pretty much amounts to utter meaninglessness.

Deference has been codified in American life as political correctness. And political correctness functions like a despotic regime. It is an oppressiveness that spreads its edicts further and further into the crevices of everyday life.

Democrats refuse to deal with reality. They make things up, sensationalize common sense solutions, and exacerbate this obsession over political correctness.

While liberals are leery of religious fundamentalism in general, they consistently imagine that all religions at their core teach the same thing and teach it equally well. This is one of the many delusions borne of political correctness.

Political correctness is a poison to our security and defenses. It imposes a willful blindness, both at the macro level when unwilling to engage with radical Islamism or whatever you want to call it – if you’re not willing to call it what it is – and at the micro level, at the street level.

If you look at things historically, Kanye West has really represented the battering ram against political correctness.

The power of Political Correctness is demonstrated by the entire political establishment coming to the defense of open immigration from Muslim-majority nations.

If you’re a conservative who thinks the culture wars are over (they’re never really over, of course), then you are a lot more open to the idea of a unprincipled blowhard who promises he’s got your back on political correctness.

If there is a person behaving more destructively in popular culture than Mario Lavandeira, I cannot think of one. He has used cruelty as a crass mechanism to build up his own celebrity and has utilized political correctness to protect himself while using it as a weapon to dehumanize those he doesn’t agree with.

Political correctness has become a straightjacket.

I just don’t accept midgets as human beings. There’s only so much political correctness I can accept.

Political correctness is one of the engines of nannyism. Allowing and even encouraging ‘offensive‘ ideas is vital for the intellectually health of a free society.

I am appalled to hear the defence of the niqab or burka in Europe. A bizarre political correctness has tied the tongues of those who would normally rally to defend women‘s rights but who are now instead sacrificing those very rights in the name of fighting an increasingly powerful right wing.

This lie of political correctness is bringing this country down. You just want to break through it all.

I just think political correctness is a limitation on our First Amendment freedoms.

In too many ways, political correctness has been a bully.

Political correctness never rears its ugly head independently. It always shows up as a series of actions designed, to this observer, to crush the souls of those blessed with common sense.

Political correctness – the rigging of politics using different rules for different groups, and buttressed by the media – ensures that Democrats always have the upper hand.

I have a distinct memory, dating back to 1989 or so, of sitting around with my college dorm mates talking about a new term that was popping up everywhere: ‘political correctness.’