political correctness
英語
编辑
詞源
编辑源自 politically correct + -ness。
名詞
编辑political correctness (可數 和 不可數，複數 political correctnesses)
- (不可數) 政治正確
- 1991年5月4日, George H. W. Bush, “President George H.W. Bush's commencement address at the University of Michigan [乔治·H·W·布什总统在密歇根大学毕业典礼上的演讲]”, 出自 The Michigan Daily[1]:
- The notion of political correctness has ignited controversy across the land. And although the movement arises from the laudable desire to sweep away the debris of racism and sexism and hatred, it replaces old prejudice with new ones.
- 政治正确这一概念在全国引发了争议。尽管这场运动的初衷是希望扫除种族主义、性别歧视和仇恨，但它却用新的偏见取代了旧的偏见。
- 2002 October, Christopher Hitchens, “The Power of Facing [面对的力量]”, 出自 The Atlantic[2]:
- I mean, people who talk about political correctness as being a kind of thought police have no idea of what a thought police is. But political correctness does have the same mentality. It means that intellectual argument is doomed. Objective truth simply becomes a thing to jeer at, because obviously there's no such thing as objectivity—unless of course you're politically okay, in which case you can be objective. Any child can see through that, but many adults can't.
- 我的意思是，那些说政治正确是思想警察的人根本不知道什么是思想警察。但政治正确确实有同样的心态。这意味着知识上的论证注定要失败。客观真理只是被嘲笑的东西，因为显然没有客观性这回事——除非你政治上没问题，这样你就可以客观了。任何孩子都能看穿这一点，但许多成年人却看不透。
- 2004, George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?[3], New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL，第 72 頁:
- Political correctness cripples discourse, creates ugly language and is generally stupid.
- 政治正确会削弱言论、产生丑陋的语言，而且总体来说是愚蠢的。
- (可數) 政治正確的結果或產物
反義詞
编辑同類詞彙
编辑- conservative correctness (左翼人士用來稱呼保守的審查)