Nat Hentoff Quotes

Make no mistake about it: the labeling of someone's language as 'sexist' involves a political judgment and implies the desirability of a particular sociological doctrine. One may be in favor of that doctrine (as I believe I am) but it is quite another matter to force writers by edicts and censorship into accepting it.

When I was in college, there were certain words you couldn't say in front of a girl. Now you can say them, but you can't say 'girl.'

The two pillars of 'political correctness' are, a) willful ignorance, and b) a steadfast refusal to face the truth.

Another plague upon the land, as devastating as the locusts God loosed on the Egyptians, is 'Political Correctness.'

Political correctness is bad.

Political correctness gets in the way of all too many things in this country of ours, I am not a subscriber of political correctness by any means, shape or form.

I like the free-speech stuff, the political-correctness stuff.

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

We're gonna get away from political correctness .

In my day everything wasn't so PC.

A lot of it is backlash against all this political correctness that's going on.

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

Political correctness is a bit like a granny, a maiden aunt arriving at a party when everyone's having a good time. And she comes in, they all start sort of buttoning up and becoming self-conscious and behaving properly and then when she leaves, you can have fun again.

I think political correctness really does help us when it serves us but it doesn't help us when it silences us.

We happen to live in an era that is incredibly wrapped up in notions of political correctness; everything is seen through the lens of politics. But being political and politically correct is just another way of fighting, another form of power and strategy, an insidious means of manipulation.

Open discussion of many major public questions has for some time now been taboo. We can't open our mouths without being denounced as racists, misogynists, supremacists, imperialists or fascists. As for the media, they stand ready to trash anyone so designated.

Other top-level politicians do not express their global warming doubts because a whip of political correctness strangles their voice.

The Media: bold sex and violence, timid politics and morals.

Political correctness is neither political nor is it correct. It amounts to social censorship, and the sooner we spit it out, the better.

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

There is a point where political correctness becomes an acid that erodes freedom.

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

As you can imagine, there were people who were like, "Why are you being the PC cop?" or, "This is Orwellian to tell people to stop using the word 'illegal' to refer to people." Well, I just want people to think it through.