Political Correctness Debate Quotes

Was any criticism of Obama permitted? It was not. We can't criticize the president of the United States. Why? Because he's African-American. And any criticism is said to be racist. And so we have more racists in America today than we've ever had by definition of criticizing the president.

One can be inclined to just say, "F this political correctness! I don't have time for that!"

Politicians really worry about being politically correct.

Political correctness is the fascism of the 90's, it is this rigid feeling that you have to keep your ideas and your way of looking at things within very narrow boundaries or else you'll offend someone. Certainly one of the purposes of journalism is to challenge just that way of thinking, and certainly one of the purposes of criticism is to break boundaries, that's also one of the purposes of art.

We cannot afford to be so politically correct anymore.

Along with 'normal' people in this country, I'm sick and tired of political correctness.

I was scared, because I knew that in the political arena, you have to satisfy so many different types of people at once, and I wasn't sure that I could speak for everybody and be politically correct.

A lot of people are bored of all the political correctness.