Political Correctness Quotes

“Professor Paglia attended a presentation and lecture by a "feminist theorist from a large Ivy League university who had set out to 'decode' the subliminal sexual oppressiveness . . . [and] to expose the violent sexism . . . in fashion photography". The presentation featured slides of cosmetic ads. One was a Revlon ad of a woman standing in a pool in water up to her chin. "Decapitation!" the feminist theorist shouted. "She showed a picture of a black woman who was wearing aviator goggles and had the collar of her turtleneck sweater pulled up. "Strangulation!" she shouted. "Bondage!".

When the "lecture" was over, Professor Paglia, "who considers herself a feminist, stood up and made an impassioned speech. She declared that the fashion photography of the past 40 years is great art, that instead of decapitation she saw the birth of Venus, instead of strangulation she saw references to King Tut". After Professor Paglia finished, "she was greeted, she says, 'with gasps of horror and angry murmuring. It's a form of psychosis, this slogan-filled machinery. The radical feminists have contempt for values other than their own, and they're inspiring in students a resentful attitude toward the world (New York Magazine, 21 January 1991, p. 38).”
― David Thibodaux, Political Correctness: The Cloning of the American Mind

“For some time, an arbitrary line in the sand was drawn at the end of the first trimester as the demarcation marking the beginning of "life". Of course, advances in medical technology continued to force those who stood on that line to retreat further and further toward the beginning of gestation. For instance, it has been established that a fetus has brain waves which can be measured by EEG only 40 days after conception, and merely 18 days after conception, the fetus has a measurable heart beat. In fact, they were getting so close to the beginning of gestation, i.e., conception, that the PC pro-abortion genderists then had to adopt the more ephemeral "viability" position. Of course, according to their definition of "viability", comatose patients would not be considered human being because, in some ways, a fetus is actually more "viable" than someone who is comatose. As obstetrical and gynecological medicine continued its inevitable advance, revealing more and more about the nature of a human fetus, the pro-abortion forces continued their retreat until now they do not even discuss the fetus at all. As with all politically correct positions, if a fact gets in the way, it is simply changed or ignored.

Unfortunately for the pro-abortion genderists, the fetus is a fact, a fact which is itself usually the result of "choices". Furthermore, the simple scientific fact is that at the moment of conception, the embryo is not a part of the mother's body. At that point and forever more it is a genetically distinct being with its own genetic code that is completely and totally different from every other human being who has ever lived or ever will live, including the mother. So here is the first instance of PC genderism crashing into scientific fact.

It also seems ironic that while more and more law enforcement agencies in this country are now turning to DNA identification in criminal investigations and our courts are now admitting such identification as evidence in criminal prosecution, the rights of a fetus, which has its own, distinct DNA code at the moment of conception, are still not legally recognized in all cases. Now they are recognized in some cases, for there have been instances of people being prosecuted for two murders when they have killed pregnant women. There are also cases where mothers who have given birth to babies who are addicted to illegal drugs have been prosecuted, but there are no consistent standards or guidelines. It is also a macabre irony that in this country it is illegal to destroy the egg of an American bald eagle, but the government uses our tax dollars to destroy human embryos and fetuses.”
― David Thibodaux, Political Correctness: The Cloning of the American Mind

“And what do these Afrocentric schools teach? At the Shule Mandela Academy in East Palo Alto, California, for instance, the school's students, who are all black, "pledge to 'think black, act black, speak black, buy black, pray black, love black, and live black'". This is done every morning during mkutano (the Kiswahili word for assembly). If whites did this, wouldn't that be called racism?”
― David Thibodaux, Political Correctness: The Cloning of the American Mind

“The PC [politically correct] crowd campuses uses epithets like racist, sexist, and homophobe as carelessly as the McCarthyites of the fifties used the word Communist in order to simply dismiss those who take issue with their positions.”
― David Thibodaux, Political Correctness: The Cloning of the American Mind

“I struggle to establish in the minds of my students that all opinions are not created equal. There are informed opinions and uniformed opinions, educated opinions and uneducated opinions. I point out that when one is ill,one goes to a medical doctor rather than a friend, and that is based upon the assumption that the medical doctor's "opinion" is worth more than the average person's, not because the doctor is better than anyone else, but because he has studied in the field and knows more about it.”
― David Thibodaux, Political Correctness: The Cloning of the American Mind