Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. uncountable Avoidance of expressions or actions that can be perceived to exclude or marginalize or insult people who are socially disadvantaged or discriminated against.
- n. countable The result or product of being politically correct.
WordNet 3.0
- n. avoidance of expressions or actions that can be perceived to exclude or marginalize or insult people who are socially disadvantaged or discriminated against
Etymologies
- From politically correct + -ness. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“And isn’t this what’s really behind the absurd, bending-over-backward political correctness we see in America and Europe today with regard to Islam?”
“Girls in jeans to fetch and carry our tapes and transcriptions and, contrary to the known rules of political correctness in the workplace, our cups of tea as well, while one minute I'm listening to a top-ranking Acholi-speaking member of the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda plotting by satellite phone to set up a base across the border in East Congo, and the next sweating it out in Dares-Salaam docks with the clatter of shipping in the background, and the cries of hawkers, and the in-out hum of a wonky table-fan that's keeping away the flies, as a murderous bunch of Islamist sympathisers conspire to import an arsenal of antiaircraft missiles in the guise of heavy machinery?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘political correctness’.
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INTERP - sexist language
Problematic and recommended terms according to the EP's guide on gender neutral language use
gender-neutral la..., biased, discriminatory, demeaning, political correct..., gender equality, gender neutrality, sexist language, masculine gender, inclusive form, generic form, discriminate agai... and 103 more...
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this modern world
Markers of the zeitgeist, don't expect all of these to go the distance. The great majority are taken from Paul McFedries's excellent book "Wordspy"
retail therapy, compulsive shoppi..., clicks-and-mortar, dot.commer, middlescence, boomeritis, dorian graying, sandwich generation, boomeranger, full-nest syndrome, wellderly, brand equity and 226 more...
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Words That Make Me Foam At The Mouth
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Tweets
Looking for tweets for political correctness.
kewpid It's from the Simpsons :)
Lisa: But it's all true.
Miss Hoover: (scoffs) This is nothing but dead, white male-bashing from a PC thug. It's women like you that keep the rest of us from landing a husband.
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Lisa: (sobbing) Ms. Hoover called me a PC Thug.
Homer: Oh Lisa, I've been called a greasy thug, too. It never stops hurting. So here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna grease ourselves up real good and trash that place with a baseball bat. Oct 7, 2007
sonofgroucho I am intrigued, apparently nobody has listed greasy thug! Oct 7, 2007
kewpid See also greasy thug. Oct 7, 2007
sonofgroucho Politically correct is often abbreviated to "pc". Oct 7, 2007