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political correctness

noun as in inclusion

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Comedy led the backlash against political correctness, which Lindy West astutely defined in a 2015 Guardian column as a fancy term for “not treating people who are already treated like garbage like garbage.”

From Salon

Because he thinks Trump will be better on the border and the economy, and because Trump has taken a wrecking ball to political correctness.

The French and German press and, to some extent, the Spanish press already participated in the political correctness panic in the 90s and early 2000s.

From Salon

It’s a familiar tale, really: The same thing happened with “political correctness” in the early ’90s.

Their message is that the countryside is the custodian of national traditions under assault from modernity, political correctness and immigration, in addition to a thicket of environmental rules that, in their view, defies common sense.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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