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What is "politically correct"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
politically correct
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At least screwing the Brits is politically correct, whichever way you do it!
▪ Franciscans oversaw construction of San Xavier del Bac during a time when mandatory religious conversion was considered politically correct.
▪ I drink politically correct, organic coffee cultivated by small farmers who get their fair-trading share of the profits.
▪ Lewis was perfectly correct, even politically correct, to insist that Bowe had reneged on a pledge to fight him first.
▪ Negative attitudes about affirmative action, for example, are not considered politically correct.
▪ Revulsion at what has been happening there is not a prerogative of the politically correct.
▪ So it's only politically correct and fair to write about an actor who's appearing on that other famous game show.
▪ The proposition that men and women have evolved different minds is anathema to every social scientist and politically correct individual.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
politically correct

first attested in prevailing current sense 1970; abbreviation P.C. is from 1986.\n\n[T]here is no doubt that political correctness refers to the political movement and phenomenon, which began in the USA, with the aim to enforce a set of ideologies and views on gender, race and other minorities. Political correctness refers to language and ideas that may cause offence to some identity groups like women and aims at giving preferential treatment to members of those social groups in schools and universities.

[Thuy Nguyen, "Political Correctness in the English Language,"2007]

Wiktionary
politically correct

a. (context politics English) Possessing or conforming to the correct political positions; following the official policies of the government or a political party.

WordNet
politically correct

adj. exhibiting political correctness

Wikipedia
Politically Correct (disambiguation)

Politically Correct may refer to:

  • Political correctness, language, ideas, policies, or behaviour seeking to minimize offence to groups of people
  • Politically Correct (SR-71 song), a single released in 2000 by the American rock band SR-71.
Politically Correct (SR-71 song)

"Politically Correct" is the second single by the American pop punk group SR-71 from their debut studio album, Now You See Inside. The song reached #22 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. The song was less successful than their breakthrough hit single " Right Now".

Usage examples of "politically correct".

And while this is wonderful to get the emotions running in a politically correct college-age mentality, it does precisely nothing to help articulate the nature of human value systems, the nature of how men and women go about choosing the good, and the true, and the beautiful, choices that involve ranking, and choices that these critics make and then deny they have made.

Or was its public-relations policy driven by politically correct ideology?

Parading the pussy in front of the cameras to show how fucking politically correct the military is.

To make us all obedient, politically correct automatons, with similar thoughts in a uniform world where we can be conveniently herded by unicop masters.

Appointing those who were politically correct and in favor after years of D.

His mother and father had both provided him and his brother with what was considered to be the politically correct role models for an upper-middle-class American family.