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political correctness



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Yiannopoulos was once regularly linked with the alt-right, a disparate group that is outspoken against political correctness and feminism, and which includes neo-Nazis and white supremacists among its ranks.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

In the early 1990s, the two men wrote for a campus publication, attacking what they saw as political correctness destroying American higher education.

From Barron's ● Dec. 24, 2025

By far the most bizarre bits of detritus from this panic I encountered in my research were the “dictionaries” of political correctness that proliferated across various countries and languages.

From Slate ● Jan. 5, 2025

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 ● Nov. 3, 2024

No one had ever accused Root of political correctness.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer


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