Political correctness and intellectual conformity thrive in academia, perpetuated by a tenure system that makes short work of challenges to accepted dogma.
Both conservative and liberal intellectuals have noted that political correctness has dissuaded free speech and silenced meaningful dialogue.
There is nothing "Islamic" about the Islamic State (IS), and I don't mean that in the patronizing tone used too often by politicians and quasi-intellectuals who are toeing a line of political correctness or trying to garner favor with Middle Eastern moderates.
And in the past decade and a half, such conflicting and unbounded expectations have yielded a wave of criticism on issues ranging from the cost of college to universities' intellectual quality to their supposed decline into unthinking political correctness.
Judgments of integrity would thus involve judgment about the reasonableness of others' moral points of view, rather than the absolute correctness of their view (Ashford) or the intellectual responsibility with which they generally approach the task of thinking about moral questions (Halfon).
For the design of Systems on Chip it is essential to reuse previously developed and verified components, so-called Intellectual Properties (IPs), in order to meet nowadays requirements in reliability, correctness, and time-to-market.
If these are familiar polemical targets, that is because, roughly since the term "political correctness" started appearing in national newsmagazines around 1990, conservative intellectuals have subjected the concepts of "diversity" and "identity politics" to a steady ideological barrage.
A series of characters informally discuss a disputed issue of the moment; the conversation usually leads to a consensus on the correctness of a particular position but occasionally the debate ends in intellectual deadlock.
When Chait criticizes "political correctness," he's actually criticizing the culture of identity politics, an intellectual moment that has much deeper roots.
Libtard: The alt-right revels in the rejection of "political correctness," so embracing an outdated term for a person with an intellectual disability ("retard") serves the purpose of insulting liberals.
