All posts tagged "Political Correctness"

During a recent town hall in Iowa, President Obama addressed the issue of political correctness on college campuses. He specifically called out liberal students who have protested or banned conservative speakers at commencement ceremonies.

Conservative author Ann Coulter thinks poor people need to be stigmatized by the educated upper class for having too much sex.

[rebelmouse-image 24748798 original_size="179x191" expand=1]With this cartoon by Chris Muir---where he says something he enjoys saying about liberal women while pretending it's offensive to him to make a point about the evils of misogyny that never bothered the man who draws women without back before---we have officially reached another new record in bad faith outrage events in the right wing blogosphere. Really, anything I can say on top of what Roy says at the Village Voice would be redundant, so just read him and marvel at the fuckwittery.

Although yes, it is fun to make fun of the constant renaming of the swine flu (Political correctness! Confusing name! Trent Reznor's new concept album!), but it's, uh, actually important, as people and governments react to what the disease is called.