political correctness

英語

詞源

源自 politically correct +‎ -ness。

名詞

political correctness (可數 和 不可數，複數 political correctnesses)

1. (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 [喬治·H·W·布什總統在密歇根大學畢業典禮上的演講]」, 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.

     政治正確這一概念在全國引發了爭議。儘管這場運動的初衷是希望掃除種族主義、性別歧視和仇恨，但它卻用新的偏見取代了舊的偏見。

   • 2002 October, Christopher Hitchens, 「The Power of Facing [面對的力量]」, 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，那些說政治正確是思想警察的人根本不知道什麼是思想警察。但政治正確確實有同樣的心態。這意味着知識上的論證註定要失敗。客觀真理只是被嘲笑的東西，因為顯然沒有客觀性這回事——除非你政治上沒問題，這樣你就可以客觀了。任何孩子都能看穿這一點，但許多成年人卻看不透。

   • 2004, George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?‎^[3], New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL，頁號 72:

     Political correctness cripples discourse, creates ugly language and is generally stupid.

     政治正確會削弱言論、產生醜陋的語言，而且總體來說是愚蠢的。

2. (可數) 政治正確的結果或產物

反義詞

• political incorrectness

同類詞彙

• conservative correctness (左翼人士用來稱呼保守的審查)