Sentences with phrase «politically correct language»

The press is so used to the politically correct language of victimization, that they don't even think about it before applying it.

Because my husband doesn't speak your politically correct language and instead responds in a knee jerk reaction to what he sees here, you immediately circle around and start wagging your fingers as you did me.

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@Alexei: the biased language as such is contained in the extract, my own language has been relatively unbiased; political terrain is contentious so its not surprising that contentious language is used; or would rather have me be «politically correct»?

blip - Merriam Webster - «politically correct» - conforming to a belief that language and practices which could offend political sensibilities (as in matters of sex or race) should be eliminated.

The term political correctness (adjectivally: politically correct; commonly abbreviated to PC or P.C.) is used to describe language, policies, or measures that are intended to avoid offense or disadvantage to members of particular groups in society.

Yet «the language of environmentalists has been boring, so uninspiring... If we just speak a technical language, with many acronyms and politically - correct phrases, no one will listen,» he said in an interview during a Bonn conference on landscapes.

In an increased effort to be politically correct, a new inclusive language policy from administrators at Princeton University is seeking to end the usage of gender - specific words like «man» on campus.

Or is it just «whatever is able to be understood by a judge» with the implications of the pardon being valued above the use of «politically correct» language?

So, what if when someone dismisses some idea as politically correct, instead of challenging, we ask them for their thinking about the subject and look for common ground and language?

If you come to within five minutes, and the computer screen is miraculously blinking back at you with anything but a blue - hued emptiness, you will know that it is a politically correct computer (probably made in Canada) that does not put up with violence and bad language from an unlicensed driver with a mealy - mouthed mouse instead of an in - yo» - face rat in his routerless right hand.