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"You're not allowed to call them dinosaurs any more," said Yo-less. "It's speciesist. You have to call them pre-petroleum persons."
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humour
euphemism
political-correctness
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Terry Pratchett |
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4d5ef7b
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I know that even now, having watched enough television, you probably won't even refer to them as lepers so as to spare their feelings. You probably call them 'parts-dropping-off challenged' or something.
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political-correctness
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Christopher Moore |
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The truth has become an insult.
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truth
hypocrisy
political-correctness
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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35acb75
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Children are nothing but a problem people create and then congratulate themselves on solving.
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political-correctness
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Curtis Sittenfeld |
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"That a work of the imagination has to be "really" about some problem is, again, an heir of Socialist Realism. To write a story for the sake of storytelling is frivolous, not to say reactionary. The demand that stories must be "about" something is from Communist thinking and, further back, from religious thinking, with its desire for self-improvement books as simple-minded as the messages on samplers. The phrase "political correctness" was born as Communism was collapsing. I do not think this was chance. I am not suggesting that the torch of Communism has been handed on to the political correctors. I am suggesting that habits of mind have been absorbed, often without knowing it.
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politics
leftism
political-correctness
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Doris Lessing |
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Ask not what you have done for Lyndon Johnson, but what you have done for him lately.
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politics
lbj
lyndon-b-johnson
political-correctness
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Robert A. Caro |
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3ed94e8
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The old restriction meant that only the orthodox were allowed to discuss religion. Modern liberty means that nobody is allowed to discuss it. Good taste, the last and vilest of human superstitions, has succeeded in silencing us where all the rest have failed.
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freedom-of-speech
political-correctness
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G.K. Chesterton |
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Each category is generalized to the greatest possible extent, so that it eventually loses all specificity and is reabsorbed by all the other categories. When everything is political, nothing is political anymore, the word itself is meaningless. When everything is sexual, nothing is sexual any more, and sex loses its determinants. When everything is aesthetic, nothing is beautiful or ugly any more, and art itself disappears.
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generalization
value
political-correctness
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Jean Baudrillard |
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8a4d179
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The Procrustean bed. . .suggests itself with dispiriting aptness as a metaphor for the Culture Wars, right down to the blandishments with which Procrustes must have lured his guests over the threshold. (I picture him as a handsome fellow with a large vocabulary and an oleaginous tongue, not unlike the chairmen of many English departments.) There's just one crucial difference. Sometimes Procrustes lopped off his victims, and sometimes he stretched them, but the Culture Wars always lop. I have never seen cultural politics enlarge a work of literature, only diminish it.
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culture-wars
procrustes
political-correctness
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Anne Fadiman |
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1d99ca5
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He even let me smoke a cigarette in his office, but he urged me to quit smoking because of the health risks. He even had a pamphlet in his desk that he gave me. I now use it as a bookmark.
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english-teacher
political-correct-crap
smoking
political-correctness
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Stephen Chbosky |
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d31c57c
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Justice was like coloured balls in a magician's hand, changing colour and shape all the time beneath the light of politics.
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politics-observation
political-correctness
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Qiu Xiaolong |
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7ae48cd
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From this state of bewildered scepticism the student may take a leap of faith. And the leap is never backwards into the old curriculum, the old canon, the old belief in objective standards and settled ways of life. It is always a leap forward, into the world of free choice and free opinion, in which nothing has authority and nothing is objectively right or wrong. In this postmodern world there is no such things as adverse judgement - unless it be judgement of the adverse judge. It is a playground world, in which all are equally entitled tot their culture, their lifestyle and their opinions. And that is why, paradoxically, the postmodern curriculum is so censorious - in just the way that liberalism is censorious. When everything is permitted, it is vital to forbid the forbidder. All serious cultures are founded on the distinctions between right and wrong, true and false, good and bad taste, knowledge and ignorance. It was to the perpetuation of those distinctions that the humanities, in the past were devoted. Hence the assault on the curriculum, and the attempt to impose a standard of 'political correctness' - which means, in effect, a standard of non-exclusion and non-judgement - is also designed to authorise a vehement kind of judgement, against all those authorities that question the orthodoxy of the left.
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humanities
political-correctness
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Roger Scruton |