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Political correctness" (adjectivally "politically correct"; commonly abbreviated to P.C.) is a term used to describe language, [1] [2] [3] policies, [4] or measures that are intended to avoid offense or disadvantage to members of particular groups in society.
The Political Compass website was established by political journalist Wayne Brittenden. [3] On July 2, 2001, an early version of the website appeared on the web server of One World Action. [4] The creators of The Political Compass acknowledged intellectual influences such as Wilhelm Reich and Theodor Adorno for their contributions to the field. [4]
Self-censorship is the act of censoring or classifying one's own discourse.This is done out of fear of, or deference to, the sensibilities or preferences (actual or perceived) of others and often without overt pressure from any specific party or institution of authority.
For understandable reasons centered around political correctness and the potential fallout from such a switch, no one on the Democratic side seemed anxious to ask Harris to step aside, let alone ...
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U.S. conservatives were generally quick to condemn the alt-right as a racist movement. [25] However, condemning it in this way placed conservatives in an awkward rhetorical position; for several years, conservatives had widely presented themselves as the challengers of liberal political correctness, but in condemning others for racism they opened themselves to the accusation that they too were ...
In the early 1990s, Overton described a spectrum from "more free" to "less free" with regard to governmental intervention, that was oriented vertically on an axis (to avoid comparison with the left-right political spectrum). [5] As the spectrum moves or expands, an idea at a given location on the scale may become more or less politically ...
Political correctness is language, ideas, policies, or behaviour seeking to minimize offense to groups of people. Politically Correct may also refer to: "Politically Correct" (song), a single released in 2000 by the American rock band SR-71; Politically Correct Bedtime Stories, book by James Finn Garner, published in 1994