A Quote by George MacDonald Fraser

The two pillars of 'political correctness' are, a) willful ignorance, and b) a steadfast refusal to face the truth.

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Correctness Face Ignorance Pillars Political Political Correctness Refusal Steadfast Truth Two Willful Willful Ignorance

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George MacDonald Fraser
Scottish - Author
April 2, 1925 - January 2, 2008

Islam, the religion of peace and any terrorism that happens, is not really Islamic or Islamic inspired. This is called a willful blindness. It's also political correctness.

Rush Limbaugh

As much as some people like to put down 'political correctness,' if it wasn't for political correctness, I wouldn't be free right now.

W. Kamau Bell

Political correctness has changed everything. People forget that political correctness used to be called spastic gay talk.

Frankie Boyle

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

Sean Evans

Political correctness gets in the way of all too many things in this country of ours, I am not a subscriber of political correctness by any means, shape or form.

Robert Byrd

REFUSAL, n. Denial of something desired; Refusals are graded in a descending scale of finality thus: the refusal absolute, the refusal condition, the refusal tentative and the refusal feminine. The last is called by some casuists the refusal assentive.

Ambrose Bierce

The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom - they are the pillars of society.

Henrik Ibsen

Unfortunately, we live at a moment in which ignorance appears to be one of the defining features of American political and cultural life. Ignorance has become a form of weaponized refusal to acknowledge the violence of the past, and revels in a culture of media spectacles in which public concerns are translated into private obsessions, consumerism and fatuous entertainment.

Henry Giroux

To act like everyone has had the same access to share their funny is willful ignorance at its best - and just a good ol' fashioned front at its truth.

Amanda Seales

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.

Pete Hegseth

There is simple ignorance, not knowing, and willful ignorance that refuses to know, that covers the light of knowledge with the dark blanket of bias.

Elizabeth Moon

Ignorance can be improved; willful ignorance and inaction is inexcusable.

David Brock

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.

Shelby Steele

I have always defined political correctness as an elevation of sensitivity over truth.

Bill Maher

The truth is that this culture of political correctness has tied the hands of law enforcement around the USA.

Mike Pence

Man's basic vice, the source of all his evils, is the act of unfocusing his mind, the suspension of his consciousness, which is not blindness, but the refusal to see, not ignorance, but the refusal to know.

Ayn Rand

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