Politically Correct Quotes

Anybody can take offense in everything. You will just go crazy if you try to make everything politically correct every single second.

~ Mekiah Johnson

The emperor is naked!The parade stopped. The emperor paused. A hush fell over the crowd, until one quick-thinking peasant shouted:No, he isn't. The emperor is merely endorsing a clothing-optional lifestyle!

~ James Finn Garner

He burst into the house and ate Grandma, an entirely valid course of action for a carnivore such as himself.

~ James Finn Garner

While the archetype of the tinker is generally the whipping person in classical bedtimes stories, this particular individual was a tinker by trade and just happened to be economically disadvantaged.

~ James Finn Garner

Those with unearned privileges often spin things as 'political correctness' to further silence those they wish to oppress.

~ Dashanne Stokes

If you call yourself an authoress on your Facebook profile, you suck at life. You are stupid and your children are ugly. It doesn't matter if you're just trying to be cute and original. You're not. You are about as original as all those other witless twits writing the one millionth shitty Fifty Shades clone. Or maybe you're trying to show your 2000 fake Facebook friends that you are an empowered feminist who will not stand for sexist terminology. But you're not showing people that you are fighting the good fight, you're showing people that you are a sheep, who's trying just a little too hard to ride the current wave of idiotic political correctness. The word author is no more gender-discrimination than the word person. Do you call yourself a personess? No, of course not, because then you might as well wear a sign around your neck that says, Hello, I'm a retard.

~ Oliver Markus

It was a rotten time to try to be a man in America. Until Blue came along I’d never even spent time around a man. Hell, I’d never even seen one. Where were all the men in this once great land?

~ Sol Luckman

Those who are most sensitive about politically incorrect terminology are not the average black ghetto-dweller, Asian immigrant, abused woman or disabled person, but a minority of activists, many of whom do not even belong to any oppressed group but come from privileged strata of society.

~ Theodore J. Kaczynski

But the more I think about it, the more I think PC words are a crock of shit. If I want to describe something using a stupid word, I should.

~ Mark A. Rayner

Political correctness’ is a label the privileged often use to distract from their privilege and hate.

~ Dashanne Stokes

People often call fighting discrimination being 'PC' because they don't want their own unearned privileges challenged.

~ Dashanne Stokes

It's not 'over-sensitivity' to ask to be treated with the same dignity and respect shown to others.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Saying something is 'politically correct' is often a way of dismissing the voices of the oppressed.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Recently, I have seen an increasing amount of disdain for political corectness, and I’ve been wondering why. Why is there so much hatred for a concept that was created solely so that people would respect one another?

~ Cate O'brien

I turned to books for comfort. (Former First Lady, Laura Bush)

~ Laura Bush

Mainly, it’s not that there are things you can’t say. It’s that there are things you can’t say without the risk that people who previously lacked a voice might use their own freedom of speech to object.

~ Oliver Burkeman