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4 unusual facts about Political correctness


Asa Baber

Quickly becoming one of the magazine's most popular features, the unapologetic and politically incorrect column covered a broad spectrum of subjects including sports, sexuality, divorce, male-bashing, employment, personal identity, fatherhood, and personal values.

Bartley Campbell

Although his works contain language and situations that would be considered politically incorrect today, theatre troops performing his plays can still be found over a century later.

Politically Correct

Political correctness, language, ideas, policies, or behaviour seeking to minimize offence to groups of people

The Chanur novels

They prefer delicate pleasures and pastel colors, their speech is exceedingly ceremonial and politically correct; they do not physically fight among themselves and their personalities are prone to change ("Phase") under stress, which has many legal implications.


Breakdown: How America's Intelligence Failures Led to September 11

Breakdown (ISBN 0-452-28427-9) is a 2003 book by Bill Gertz arguing that U.S. intelligence services "lost sight of their purpose and function" due to Clinton administration policies that were more concerned with political correctness than with national defense.

Getting On

Kim Wilde, played by Jo Brand, is a return-to-work nurse who must adapt to the difficulties the modern NHS throws at her, with C. diff, form-filling, and political correctness.

LGBT History Month

The initiative received government backing from the deputy DfES and Equalities Minister Jacqui Smith, although some sections of the press argued against its political correctness, and pointed out that the sexuality of some historical figures is more a matter of speculation than fact.

Off-color humor

In British humor, the genre of "sick jokes" is often used to shock by poking fun at taboo or as a reaction against political correctness.

Reagan Democrat

In New Zealand, political columnist Chris Trotter has theorised about the emergence of "Waitakere Man", a traditionally blue-collar constituency who he believes switched their votes to National Party leader John Key in the 2008 elections on the premises of 'ambition' and 'aspiration', and supposedly also represent a backlash against 'political correctness gone mad'.

Robin Lakoff

She covers topics including the Hill–Thomas hearings, the O.J. Simpson trial, the Lewinsky scandal, and the political correctness phenomenon.

Sam Tripoli

Tripoli is known for his wild, uncensored material, aversion to political correctness, sexual content, libertarian views, and desire to be a crimefighter.

The Harpoon

The humour dealt with the anachronistic, politically incorrect attitudes towards education, class, sex, race, war, etc. and patronising style represented by such publications as Boy's Own Paper.


see also

Cape Arcona Type Foundry

For the sake of political correctness the founders always stated that the Cape Arcona Type Foundry was not named after the destroyed luxury liner SS Cap Arcona (the ship was named after Cape Arkona on the island of Rügen in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany).

Christian Council

Christian Council of Britain, an organisation formed to defend Britain's Christian heritage and national identity from Islam and political correctness

KC Johnson

In 2007 he co-authored a book, Until Proven Innocent: Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustice of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case.

People First

People-first language, a concept similar to political correctness, regarding language use relating to people with disabilities

Rochdale sex trafficking gang

Tim Loughton, the Minister for Children and Families, stated that while there was no evidence that any ethnic communities condoned child sexual abuse, he was concerned that some had been slow to report it to the police, and urged police and social workers not to allow "political correctness around ethnicity" to hinder their work to apprehend such crimes.

Wayne Mapp

On October 26, 2005, National Party leader Don Brash appointed Mapp as the party's Political Correctness Eradicator, following a speech Mapp had given on the topic earlier that month.