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Political correctness" (adjectivally "politically correct"; commonly abbreviated to P.C.) is a term used to describe language, [1] [2] [3] policies, [4] or measures that are intended to avoid offense or disadvantage to members of particular groups in society.
The Official Politically Correct Dictionary and Handbook is a book written by Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf. It was published in 1992 by Villard Books in New York, by Grafton in London, and, by Random House of Canada Limited in Toronto. An updated edition was published in 1994.
Over the years, sanitized versions of the song were released in which a lobster or crab grabs the wife by the nose [21] instead of by the genitals, [20] and others in which each potentially offensive word is replaced with an inoffensive word that does not fit the rhyme scheme, thus implying that there is a correct word that does rhyme. For ...
The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History is a work of paleoconservative [citation needed] literature covering various issues in U.S. history by Thomas E. Woods, published in December 2004. This book was the first in the Politically Incorrect Guide series published by Regnery Publishing , who view the series as covering topics without ...
The following is a chronological list of political catchphrases throughout the history of the United States government. This is not necessarily a list of historical quotes, but phrases that have been commonly referenced or repeated within various political contexts.
This article lists times that items were renamed due to political motivations. Such renamings have generally occurred during conflicts: for example, World War I gave rise to anti-German sentiment among Allied nations, leading to disassociation with German names. An early political cartoon lampooning the name change of hamburger meat during ...
In the opinion of Kantor, these politically correct professors want to make sure students learn to despise western civilization and Christianity [5] so that they are unable to reconsider the positions they acquire on classic literature after finishing their courses. Kantor believes that this is likely to help accelerate the decline of western ...
Weyrich abhorred Political Correctness which he called Cultural Marxism, seeing it as a deliberate effort to undermine what he believed was "our traditional, Western, Judeo-Christian culture" and the conservative agenda in American society. In 1999, writing that he believed "we have lost the culture war", he suggested "a legitimate strategy for ...