Reaction to the character varied, with some, including Spider-Man's creator, Stan Lee, approving the creation of a positive role model for non-white children, to displeasure at the replacement of Peter Parker, with some decrying it as a publicity stunt motivated by political correctness, a charge Alonso denied.
Many of those leading the charge against political correctness argue against laws that create accessibility for the wheelchair-bound, against providing language options on official forms, against efforts to remove racial slurs from sports team names, and against protections in legislation like the Violence Against Women Act and hate crime laws.
Challenging the status quo on pretty much any of those topics invites charges of "political correctness", shutting down dissent under the guise of protecting speech.
I cannot see how this equates to defending fascism, undermining liberal values, trading free speech for political correctness, or any of the other charges levelled.
I also knew some would accuse us of sanitising the less ethical sponsors and more controlling aspects of this international institution while others would charge the organisers with "political correctness gone mad".
Most important, he charges that advocates of political correctness foster a cult of victimhood to justify policies antithetical to American conceptions of freedom and fairness.
Since then, charging someone else with political correctness has become the first line of defense for racists, one of the best ways to shut down any discussion about inequity.
Instead, they said, Mr. Bush's decision to stick to his theme that progress was being made, albeit with difficulty, only enhanced Mr. Kerry's response to the charge that he vacillated: contrasting consistency with correctness.
None of which, he said, is meant to be racially charged, but rather simply unburdened by political correctness.
And there were so many angry charges of McCarthyism and countercharges of "political correctness" that it sometimes seemed that the topic at hand on Thursday in Washington was the radicalization of the House Homeland Security Committee, not American Muslims.
