Political correctness
Political correctness just means being correct about politics. For example, if you were to say that there are 52 Senators in the Congress of the United States, that would be politically incorrect because there are in fact 107 Senators: two from each state, three from each side of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and one from Moosylvania. Never mind that there are only 50 states, the other numbers were unaccounted for thanks to the Department of Justice.
Everyone wants to be politically correct because no one wants to be wrong, meaning incorrect. It just wouldn't make sense for anyone to set out to be incorrect. Now, you need to report for your mandatory groupthink session. Have a positive non-judgmental socially constructed time period.
Language[edit | edit source]
Political correctness is designed to enable people to be correct about politics. As a result, language that exemplifies the matter includes:
- The euphemism treadmill: apparently it used to be OK to say fat. Now they say, overweight and on Delta Airlines they even say person of size, on analogy with person of color. We expect that human possessing greater-than-average volumes of cellulose' may be next.
- Christmas: probably one of the most famous examples. See the War on Christmas for more information. Unfortunately, thanks to the PC Police, within the next week they'll send me a fine and I'll have to put censor stars in the word 'Christmas', or replace it with 'Holiday', which makes no sense as, not only are there multiple holidays, but 'War on Holiday' does not exist as an article.