Sinead Burke Quotes

I haven't learned to be politically correct yet.

I just think political correctness is crap.

If I catch one of my fans saying something improper, a gay slur or any derogatory term, I instantly tweet directly at them and say, 'This isn't how we do it.'

… avoid the use of language which may discriminate on grounds of race, ethnicity, gender, age or culture.

I think maybe it's time for liberals to not start weeping when I say things like 'retard' or 'illegal alien.'

I'm not PC all the time in my phrasing, because that meets a wall; people won't hear it.

Political correctness is what right-wing bigots call what everybody else calls being polite

At its grandest, political correctness is an attempt to accelerate evolution.

I think the big problem in America has is being politically correct.

The whole politically correct movement, if it - if that's what it is, was spawned by liberals. So I try to avoid categorizing myself.

Political correctness has changed everything. People forget that political correctness used to be called spastic gay talk.

Political correctness is the the inability to state certain truths because they may offend certain people

Take that bone out of your nose and call me back (to an African American female caller).

The pejorative term "political correctness" was adapted to express disapproval of the enlargement of etiquette to cover all people, in spite of this being a principle to which all Americans claim to subscribe.

In my day everything wasn't so PC.

For an academic to launch a public conversation about journalistic integrity, the role of religion in society, scholarship and faith is a dream come true. These are the kinds of things that we sit around talking to each other about in our dusty libraries. To see these conversations take place in popular culture is the best thing that could have ever happened.

The whole evolution of present-day society tends to develop the various forms of bureaucratic oppression and to give them a sort of autonomy in regard to capitalism as such.

If there are older black people in the audience that I can see I will not say the n-word. I know they grew up with a different meaning.

We must succumb to the general influence of the times. No man can be of the tenth century, if he would; be must be a man of the nineteenth century.

We live in a world filled with language. Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human community. Writers are either polluters or part of the clean-up team. Just as the language of power and greed has the potential to destroy us, the language of reason and empathy has the power to save us. Writers can inspire a kinder, fairer, more beautiful world, or invite selfishness, stereotyping, and violence. Writers can unite people or divide them.

We are at a time in our country's history that inclusive language is better than exclusive language.

What I do know is that Charlie Hebdo cartoonists have been converted into the closest thing the West has to religious-like martyrs in the war against radical Islam, which means that anything short of pure reverence for them generates tribal rage and vilification.

What we believe, endorse, agree with, and depend on is representable and, increasingly, represented on the Web. We all have to ensure that the society we build with the Web is the sort we intend.

We're gonna get away from political correctness .

Why shouldn't I be interested in politics? That is to say, what blindness, what deafness, what density of ideology would have to weigh me down to prevent me from being interested in what is probably the most crucial subject to our existence, that is to say the society in which we live, the economic relations within which it functions, and the system of power which defines the regular forms and the regular permissions and prohibitions of our conduct. The essence of our life consists, after all, of the political functioning of the society in which we find ourselves.