calling someone else politically correct - classic or dud?

-- gypsy mothra (meetm...), December 30th, 2005.

OTFM

"Politcal correctness gone mad" is even worse, although I recently heard a Tory councillor describe something as "political correctness gone abosolutely insane," which made me giggle.

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Typing "politically correct" into the search page for the noise board returns a grand total of 3 results.

Which is UTTER bullshit until you actually take the time and discount the position. If you simply say "Oh, that's just you being PC", you've lost the argument by withdrawing. However, if you say "I think your position is being simplistically apologetic for Kanye West...the fact that he IS black does not mean that he can say for sure what Bush's stance on black people is. That's claiming authority simply by saying you've got authority."

I am sharpening my argument chops for the inevitable New Year's politcal argument. Can't WAIT.

The phrase 'politically incorrect' is and always has been reverse-PC for 'obnoxious, attention-seeking and rude'.

Editorial Reviews

Michelle Malkin, bestselling author and columnist
"The courageous Robert Spencer busts myths and tells truths about jihadists that no one else will tell."

Ibn Warraq, author
"A clarion call for the defense of the West before it is too late."

Walid Phares, terror analyst
"An enormous amount of well-researched material. Throws the ball back into the camp of Arabist historians."

Bat Ye’or, historian
"Assails, with much erudition, the taboos imposed by the Politically Correct League."

Bruce Thornton, historian
"A much-needed antidote to the poisonous propaganda that compromises our current battle against jihadist murder."

About the Author
Robert Spencer is an Adjunct Fellow with the Free Congress Foundation and a board member of the Christian Islamic Forum. He writes frequently on Islam in a wide variety of publications and is the author of Onward Muslim Soldiers and Islam Unveiled. He has been studying Islam for more than twenty years.

I'll say the cover is pretty choice.

For more lolz, see The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science and The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History

The book's title gives a clue to its agenda. For some time now the term "politically correct" has been used to delegitimize any left-of-center position, even those that aren't very far left or particularly outrageous. (See, for example, this letter to the editor, published last July in the San Antonio Express-News: "The media exploded into politically correct hysteria over the truly minor 'torture' in Abu Ghraib.") Conservatives happily brand themselves "politically incorrect" when they resurrect justifiably discredited ideas—or, à la Bill Maher, when they merely want to appear fearlessly honest. Thus, Woods boasts of his book's "political incorrectness," hoping to claim the high ground of truth-telling and pre-emptively tag any criticism as ideologically based.

I swear I thought this said

"Assholes, with much erudition, the taboos imposed by the Politically Correct League."

that was only about a two week period tho

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/089526031X.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

Knee-jerk use of p.c. as a dismissal of anything progressive is bad but sincere use of 'politically correct' (which I haven't heard since sometime in the mid-80's) was worse. It showed the lingering influence of the whole 'commisar' attitude that did a lot of damage to the Left in the 50's and 60's.

really that was a winning political strategy: it's worked for the right for nearly a decade now!

Not really "affirmative," but when I started hearing it around 1987 it was being used by progressives and leftists as a bit of mild self-mockery. It was adopted by conservatives joyfully and pretty much immediately, of course, but I think it began among liberals themselves.

it included some comic strip involving a character pedantically correcting another character's language, as i recall...

Following up what was said previously about douchebags prefacing any racist/stupid/bullshit thing they're about to say with "lemme be politically incorrect here," we have CNN Headline News douche Glenn Beck openly saying to the first Muslim congressman-to-be:

...May we have five minutes here where we're just politically incorrect and I play the cards face up on the table?

[...]

With that being said, you are a Democrat. You are saying, "Let's cut and run." And I have to tell you, I have been nervous about this interview with you, because what I feel like saying is, "Sir, prove to me that you are not working with our enemies."

And I know you're not. I'm not accusing you of being an enemy, but that's the way I feel, and I think a lot of Americans will feel that way.