| Definitions | | political correctness |
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noun
- The concept that one has to shape their statements (if not their opinions) according to a certain political dogma.
- 2002 I mean, people who talk about as being a kind of thought police have no idea of what a thought police is. But does have the same mentality. It means that intellectual argument is doomed. Objective truth simply becomes a thing to jeer at, because obviously there's no such thing as objectivity"unless of course you're politically okay, in which case you can be objective. Any child can see through that, but many adults can't. " Christopher Hitchens, http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200210u/int2002-10-23 The Atlantic
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