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Political Correctness Is A Concept Invented By Hard-rightwing Forces To Defend Their Right To Be Racist, To Treat Women In A Degrading Way And To Be Truly Vile About Gay People. They Invent This Idea Of People Who Are Politically Correct, With A Rigid, Monstrous Attitude To Life So They Can Attack. But We Have All Had To Learn To Modify Our Language. That's All Part Of Being A Decent Human Being.

-Clare Short

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Political Correctness Is A

Clare Short

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Political Correctness Is A Concept Invented By Hard-rightwing Forces To Defend Their Right To Be Racist, To Treat Women In A Degrading Way And To Be Truly Vile About Gay People. They Invent This Idea Of People Who Are Politically Correct, With A Rigid, Monstrous Attitude To Life So They Can Attack. But We Have All Had To Learn To Modify Our Language. That's All Part Of Being A Decent Human Being.

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