{"id":10238,"date":"2009-08-27T11:02:32","date_gmt":"2009-08-27T19:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=10238"},"modified":"2009-08-28T08:04:02","modified_gmt":"2009-08-28T16:04:02","slug":"what-is-political-correctness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=10238","title":{"rendered":"What Is Political Correctness?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dennis Prager said on his show in February: Political correctness is entirely a matter of truths that can&#8217;t be said because they&#8217;re painful.<\/p>\n<p>Political correctness is the inability to state certain truths because they may offend or cause pain to certain people and certain groups.<\/p>\n<p>This is a difficult hour to do because it will entail offending certain sensibilities.<\/p>\n<p>The issue about stereotypes is whether they are true and whether you apply the generalization to every member of the group, which is totally wrong. 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