Just Being Right versus Political Correctness

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Political Correctness

Political correctness (adjectivally, politically correct; both forms commonly abbreviated to PC) is a term which denotes language, ideas, policies, and behavior seen as seeking to minimize social and institutional offense in occupational, gender, racial, cultural, sexual orientation, certain other religions, beliefs or ideologies, disability, and age-related contexts, and, as purported by the term, doing so to an excessive extent

Accusations of cultural Marxism
Main article: Cultural Marxism

University of Pennsylvania professor Alan Charles Kors and lawyer Harvey A. Silverglate connect political correctness to Marxist philosopher Herbert Marcuse. They claim that liberal ideas of free speech are repressive, arguing that such "Marcusean logic" is the base of speech codes, which are seen by some as censorship, in US universities. Kors and Silvergate later established the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, which campaigns against PC speech codes.[26]

Some conservative critics claim that political correctness is a Marxist undermining of Western values.[27] William S. Lind and Patrick Buchanan have characterized PC as a technique originated by the Frankfurt School, through what Buchanan describes as "Cultural Marxism".[28][29] In The Death of the West, Buchanan says: “Political Correctness is Cultural Marxism, a regime to punish dissent and to stigmatize social heresy as the Inquisition punished religious heresy. Its trademark is intolerance.” [30]

Examples of language commonly referred to as "politically correct" include:[14][page needed]

• "Mentally challenged" in place of "Retarded" and other terms

• "African American" in place of "Black," "Negro" and other terms

• "Native American" (or "First Nations" in Canada) in place of "Indian"

• "Caucasian" in place of "White", and other terms

• "Gender-neutral" terms such as "firefighter" in place of "fireman"

• The use of the word "gender" instead of the word "sex" to distinguish males and females

• Terms relating to disability, such as "visually challenged" or "hearing impaired" in place of "blind" or "deaf"

• "People of color" in place of "ethnic minorities" or "non-whites" in countries populated predominantly by people who are white.[citation needed]

• "Happy Holidays" in place of "Merry Christmas" and other holiday greetings