Political correctness

• Political correctness (adjectivally, politically

correct; both forms commonly abbreviated to
PC) is a term which denotes language, ideas,
policies, and behavior seen as seeking to
minimize social and institutional offense in
occupational, gender, racial, cultural, sexual
orientation, disability, and age-related
contexts.
• In current usage, the term is primarily
pejorative, while the term politically incorrect
has been used as an implicitly positive self-
description. Examples of the latter include the
conservative Politically Incorrect Guides
published by the Regnery editorial house and
the television talk show Politically Incorrect. In
these cases, the term politically incorrect
connotes language, ideas, and behavior
unconstrained by a perceived orthodoxy or by
concerns about offending or expressing bias
regarding various groups of people.
• Cheating - Academic Dishonesty
• Drunk - spacially perplexed
• Earthquake - geological correction
• Ghetto / Barrio - Ethnically
Homogenous Area
• Incompetent - Differently Qualified
• Library - Educational Resource Center
• Poor - Economically Unprepared
• Plagiarism - Previously Owned Prose
Politically Correct Phrases For Students:
No one fails a class any more, he's merely "passing impaired."
You don't have detention, you're just one of the "exit delayed.“
These days, a student isn't lazy. He's "energetically declined."
Your locker isn't overflowing with junk, it's just "closure prohibitive.“
Your homework isn't missing, it's just having an "out-of-notebook
experience."
You're not sleeping in class, you're "rationing consciousness."
You're not late, you just have a "rescheduled arrival time.“
You don't have smelly gym socks, you have "odor-retentive athletic
footwear."
No one's tall anymore. He's "vertically enhanced."
You're not shy. You're "conversationally selective."
You don't talk a lot. You're just "abundantly verbal.“
It's not called gossip any more. It's "the speedy transmission of
near-factual information."
The food at the school cafeteria isn't awful. It's "digestively
challenged."