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When conservatives cry about the phrase "politically correct". Are they admitting that they don't think THEY are politically correct?

Anybody, with even the slightest understanding of the language knows that EVERYBODY thinks they themselves are "correct" in whatever they think. Liberals think they are and conservatives are supposed to think they are too. So what's up with this? Do they secretly believe they are not correct? Or is it kinda like that con flag thing and they just want it banned?

Update:

I'm not talking about words here. I'm talking about the belief that you are right, or "correct".

Anti-example; (words instead of beliefs)

If you believe the phrase "politically correct" is incorrect.

Then is being right politically incorrect?

I am talking about the meme, or belief, that you are right. NOT about what words are, or are not, allowed. The words we use have, and will always, change over time.

Update 2:

So many of you here are using the politically correct meaning of "Correct". Instead of the REAL meaning. You have all been corrected. By both the liberal and conservative leaders. Brainwashed.

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  • 6 years ago
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    Yes they're admitting that they have their own political correctness.

    You can't refer to the rich as the 1%, or "the rich". You have to call them "the jobs creators". If you question inequality in any way, it's "class warfare" and you're a "socialist". There is plenty of political correctness on the right wing.

  • 6 years ago

    "Politically Correct" is a dog whistle for LEFT SPEAK. Conservatives acknowledge humans aren't perfect. They also know that when one silences the opposition it doesn't go away, but becomes a pressure cooker.

    The LEFT can't create a Utopia. One can take the Gay Rights movement today to see the pressure cooker effect. Llewen seems to feel it is his obligation to bankrupt individuals that choose to ignore him as if that is the same as hate.

  • ?
    Lv 5
    6 years ago

    I never try to be 'politically correct'. I'm sensitive to people's feelings as long as it's reasonable, but I make no attempt whatever to be politically correct.

  • 6 years ago

    Politically Correct, is a restricted vocabulary enforced by directly coercive or subtly coercive means.

    You MUST use the accepted or actually demanded terms, labels, monikers and phrases that the politically activists prefer, usually at their whim. No other are allowed. And your words are no longer of your choice.

    Almost NO ONE has the slightest understanding of language anymore, and people that think they are always correct are on the rise. "Often wrong, but never in doubt " comes to mind.

    Banning Political Correctness, is absurd as it is already a ban. Thus it would be a Liberation.

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  • ?
    Lv 6
    6 years ago

    The book 1984 was not written by a conservative but it outlined how by changing and even banning words or phrase's you can control how people think No one should have the right to change the common words

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    Politically correct is the only correctness there is to politically correct. Rather than use the correct term because some people think the accurate term is offensive those who are politically correct prefer what sounds good to what is real. At the same time a politically correct solution is not a real solution.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    When conservatives say "politically correct," they're just using the politically correct phrase for "I am a racist."

    They ignore all the things they routinely get outraged over someone saying Things like terrorists can be brave, maybe America isn't A- NO 1, or that the free market isn't sent by god.

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    Oh gee another whining,blaming FOOL who thinks REPS are the only People and Politicians to blame when Democrats are no better and are, just as bad ... the things that will change Life and Living, America for the better is for the STUPIDITY and HUMAN GREED of foolishly DIVIDED ( Dem and Rep ) VOTERS to end ! Political Correctness, it's meaning is BS , one of the few things " Cons " have right !

  • ms.
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    right is might. figurin' out who is right isn't that hard for an individual. figurin' out who is right is mind-numbing for a group. politics suxxx.

    Donald Trump : "all of the immigrants are rapists..." not a PC thing to say and ALSO not correct. I bet the Donald thinks he is RIGHT all the time, but I also bet he thinks being "PC" is wrong! omg...

  • ?
    Lv 5
    6 years ago

    Not what that phrase means.

    using the term N-----s for black people is not politically correct for anyone! The newest term for those people is "African American".

    Just as "Native American" is now the politically correct for what used to be known as "Indians"!

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