A Quote by W. Kamau Bell
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.
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Political correctness has changed everything. People forget that political correctness used to be called spastic gay talk.
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.
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.
Will his work survive? Alas, I worry that it will not. As an American liberal with impeccable credentials, I would like to say that political correctness is going to kill American liberalism if it is not fought to the death by people like me for the dangers it represents to free speech, to the exchange of ideas, to openheartedness, or to the spirit of art itself. Political correctness has a stranglehold on academia, on feminism, and on the media. It is a form of both madness and maggotry, and has already silenced the voices of writers like James Dicky across the land.
Nidal Hasan communicated with Anwar al-Awlaki, a known radical cleric, asked about waging jihad against his fellow soldiers. The problem is because of political correctness, the [Barack] Obama administration, like a lot of folks here, want to search everyone's cell phones and e-mails and not focus on the bad guys. And political correctness is killing people.
Let’s be honest. Who here thinks your professors can say what they really believe? It scares me to death, and should scare you too, that the superstition of political correctness rules the halls of reason. What does all of this mean? It means that telling us what to think has evolved into telling us what to say, so telling us what to do can’t be far behind. Before you claim to be a champion of free thought, tell me: Why did political correctness originate on America’s campuses? And why do you continue to tolerate it? Why do you, who’re supposed to debate ideas, surrender to their suppression?
At a time when political correctness is valued over honesty I would also like to say right on motherfuckers!
There is a term called political correctness, and I consider it to be a euphemism for political cowardice.
I like the free-speech stuff, the political-correctness stuff.
We need less political correctness and more political courage.
America's problem is too much political correctness.
Political correctness is neither political nor is it correct. It amounts to social censorship, and the sooner we spit it out, the better.
To understand any plea for further consideration of a group you don't know anything about to be some form of, quote, political correctness. These things are bubbling right under us.
We are so beaten down by political correctness that most of us are numb to the surrender of America.
To think about love and passion and political correctness all together, it doesn't work. Art has to go way past the political to be effective.
The power of Political Correctness is demonstrated by the entire political establishment coming to the defense of open immigration from Muslim-majority nations.
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