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"ref": "1934/1970, Walter Benjamin, \"The Author as Producer\" (address at the Institute for the Study of Fascism, Paris, April 27, 1934), as translated by John Heckman for New Left Review 1/62, July-August 1970",
"text": "[On] the one hand we should demand that the poet's work conform to the correct political tendency, on the other hand we have the right to expect that his work be of high quality. … I want to show you that the political tendency of a work can only be politically correct if it is also literarily correct. That means that the correct political tendency includes a literary tendency. For, just to clarify things right away, this literary tendency, which is implicitly or explicitly contained in every correct political tendency – that, and nothing else constitutes the quality of a work."
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"text": "I am here to tell you that we are going to do those things which need to be done, not because they are politically correct, but because they are right. We are going to pass a civil rights bill if it takes all summer.",
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"ref": "1969, Y. F. Sopin, chapter 5, in The Bolshevik Party's Struggle Against Trotskyism, page 214:",
"text": "Lenin gave an all-round substantiation of the impossibility of implementing the United States of Europe slogan under capitalism. He said this slogan merged with socialism and acquired political meaning only under socialism. It was politically correct also from the standpoint of the need to overthrow the three reactionary monarchies of Europe—that of Russia, of Germany and of Austria-Hungary.",
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"ref": "1981 December 14, G:kirk, “Yet Another Camel Joke”, in net.jokes (Usenet), message-ID <anews.Apopuli.106>:",
"text": "Why do they call camels \"Ships-of-the-desert\" ?\n[...]\nBecause they're full of Iranian seamen.\n(NOW, being politically correct you must, of course, substitute \"martian\"\nWhat a clever joke this becomes! Hopefully, there are no martians listening. )",
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"ref": "2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Computers: Artificial Intelligence (AI) Codex entry:",
"text": "The geth serve as a cautionary tale against the dangers of rogue AI, and in Citadel Space they are technically illegal. Advocacy groups argue, however, that an AI is a living, conscious entity deserving the same rights as organics. They argue that continued use of the term \"artificial\" is institutionalized racism on the part of organic life, the term \"synthetic\" is considered the politically correct alternative.",
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"ref": "2024, Zoe Kleinman (technology editor), \"Why Google's 'woke' AI problem won't be an easy fix\" https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-68412620 (BBC News)",
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"ref": "2007 May 3, Daniel Henninger, “After Imus: End the Executions”, in Wall Street Journal:",
"text": "Don Imus, Bernard McGuirk, Trent Lott, Larry Summers, the Duke lacrosse team, Jimmy the Greek, the kid who yelled \"water buffalo\" at Penn, Howard Cosell, Jon Stewart, Chief Illiniwek, Jackie Mason and \"South Park\" all have in common only one thing: They have not been Politically Correct.",
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"ref": "2010, “Politically correct food on the menu in Britain”, in The Independent:",
"text": "From foie gras produced without making birds suffer to \"sustainable\" fish, British retailers and restaurants are fast embracing politically correct food, helped by celebrity-fuelled pressure.",
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"ref": "2017, Linda Kalof, The Oxford Handbook of Animal Studies, page 434:",
"text": "Even when mounted in the context of animal-centric conferences or events, exhibits of “animal art” routinely display works consisting of animal parts or taxidermied animals—most of which can be viewed while people are eating their politically correct vegan lunch.",
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"ref": "1998, Humphrey McQueen, Temper Democratic: How Exceptional is Australia?, Wakefield Press, →ISBN, page 190:",
"text": "There is nothing new or progressive in the politically corrected vocabularies that now amuse the prejudiced.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2005, Lone Fatum, “Christ Domesticated”, in Jostein Ådna, editor, The Formation of the Early Church, Mohr Siebeck, →ISBN, page 196:",
"text": "Thus, although Pastoral Paul contradicts, updates, and politically corrects Paul of the authentic letters in accordance with the horizontalized, non-sectarian interest of the Pastorals, he does this as an extension of a decidedly this-worldly, conservative paraenesis which may be seen as Paul's own contradiction of his apocalyptic eschatological interpretation.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2016 February 26, Ben Brantley, “Review: You See ‘The Encounter’ With Your Ears”, in New York Times:",
"text": "Yet we follow McIntyre into the jungles as eagerly as if we were children lost in an adventure novel by (a politically corrected) H. Rider Haggard.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To modify in a way that is considered more respectful to minorities."
],
"links": [
[
"modify",
"modify"
],
[
"minorities",
"minority"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To modify in a way that is considered more respectful to minorities."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2013, Andrew Martin Fischer, “Preface”, in The Disempowered Development of Tibet in China, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page xxxiv:",
"text": "Even a senior Chinese scholar-official who had been politically correcting my arguments and opinions throughout the conference smiled and accepted that the academic standards to which we both had to comply were quite different—I would be ridiculed by my own colleagues were I to adopt the standards of China, which he nonetheless deemed the (officially sanctioned) correct ones.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To modify in a way that conforms more to the official position of a government or political party."
],
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"(transitive) To modify in a way that conforms more to the official position of a government or political party."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
}
],
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"synonyms": [
{
"word": "PC"
},
{
"word": "P.C."
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Karen DeCrow",
"Mao Zedong",
"Toni Cade Bambara"
],
"word": "politically correct"
}
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