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In some cases, this might be literally about political correctness taken too far, presented through a [[Granola Girl]] or [[Soapbox Sadie]] who [[Strawman Political|embodies the negative aspects of the PC movement]].
Alternatively, along the same lines, a governmental authority (often a local council) is accused of being over-zealous to the point of parody in trying to avoid offense to minority groups - not unlike the [[Culture Police]] but in the other direction. [[Kotobagari|Certain words or phrases are said to have been "banned"]], as if the Chipping Sodbury Borough Council has any effective power over the English Language or, indeed, ''anything''.
[[Politically-Correct History]] is a specific variant where [[Common Knowledge]] historical accounts are treated as [[Fanon]] to avoid [[Unfortunate Implications]] such as [[Values Dissonance]] or having to explain [[Aluminum Christmas Trees]].
Usually, a range of urban myths are presented as examples of '''Political Correctness Gone Mad''', such as ...
* Blackboards in school being renamed "Chalkboards" to avoid offending black people. A lot of them are green (and some are vaguely brown-orange), which would be a much more logical reason to change the name. The marker variant, called a "Whiteboard", remains untouched. (Although, some do call them "Wipeboards", [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|as you can wipe the writing off.]])
* Some schools having a "holiday tree" every [[You Mean "Xmas"|"Winter Holiday Season,"]] or even more drastic...
* City councils banning Christmas to avoid offending Jews, Muslims, Pagans, and other religious/non-religious folk<ref>This is perpetuated by [[Daily Mail]] and [[The Sun]] newspapers but has, in fact, never happened.</ref>
* Manholes being renamed "Personnel Access Units" [[Freud Was Right|to avoid offending women.]]
All of this is especially ironic, considering that Political Correctness took on its contemporary meaning when the radical left began using it as a [[Self-Deprecation|self-aware joke]] about the intrusion of Academic (the capital "A" ''is'' required) feminist and socialist argot into their everyday lives. Expect most of those invoking [[Mars and Venus Gender Contrast]] to imply, if not state outright, that they're taking a brave stand against this trope in the name of [[Truth in Television]].
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==Examples of political correctness impacting stories==
=== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ===
* The [[4Kids! Entertainment]] release of ''[[Dragonball Z Kai]]'' had the removal of halos from dead characters. Instead, they were replaced by small glowing orbs. Also, blue Mr. Popo.<ref>What about him? We may never know.</ref> Heck, 4Kids! in general could be put here.
* When the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women attempted to propose a ban on among other things, manga "depicting sexual violence" in 2016, it met significant backlash from Japan over censorship and political correctness gone awry. Which most notably manifested in [http://wmc-jpn.blogspot.com/2016/03/in-english.html?spref=tw a memorandum] signed by [[Irony|a growing number of Japanese women in media, including several female mangaka]].
=== [[Comic Books]] ===
* The majority of comic books in the mid
* Marvel Comics stopped working with the Comics Code Authority for a while after they refused to approve an anti-drug comic on the basis that the comic had drugs in it.<ref>something similar to the
* [[Marvel Comics]]' [[Black Panther]] once changed his name to "Black Leopard" to avoid association with the actual [[wikipedia:Black Panthers|Black Panthers]]. Of course, this was in 1972, when the latter were active, but still. It was changed back very quickly because in the Marvel Universe the Black Panther is a name that goes back ''centuries'' and BP pointed out that he wasn't going to let himself be defined by a group of people he disagreed with anyway.
* After ''[[Infinite Crisis]]'', the [[DC Comics]] Christmas one shot was going to be named "Infinite Christmas". It was solicited and advertised as such, but when it actually came out it was called "Infinite Holiday", pretty much eradicating the original pun.
* In the ''Uncanny X-Men'' graphic novel ''God Loves, Man Kills'', Kitty's dance teacher Stevie Hunter attempts to keep Kitty from beating up a boy who'd called her a "mutie lover" (not knowing that Kitty herself was a mutant), by telling Kitty that "they're just words." Kitty immediately throws Stevie's seeming hypocrisy in her face, asking her if she'd be so calm had the boy called Kitty a "nigger lover." This is the second time Kitty has used the [[Berserk Button|N-word]] to highlight hypocrisy and Xenophobia. Both examples got a lot of flak and continue to do so, where a number of readers objected to the use of the word ''even if it was to make a point about tolerance''. (Admittedly, part of said objections were disquiet with explicitly equating fictional prejudice and fictional slurs with real-life prejudice and real life slurs, instead of leaving them in the realm of subtext.)
* Somewhat lampshaded in [[Kurt Busiek]]'s run on ''[[The Avengers (Comic Book)|The Avengers]]'', where the team was forced to add at least one ethnic minority to its [[Monochrome Casting|decidely-white roster]]. [[Iron Man]] spends most of the issue complaining about how idiotic the notion of "diversity" is, while the Wasp feels crappy after realizing just how few minority members the team actually had up until that point.
** A much earlier issue from the 1980's had a similar set-up, but with a much more negative message. Hawkeye is unfairly kicked off the team in favor of [[the Falcon]] (an African American), and Falcon ultimately quits because he hates the idea of only being asked to join the Avengers to serve as the [[Token Minority]].
* A major criticism concerning the introduction of Miles Morales, a black/hispanic child who
* In more recent times, concerns have arisen regarding a growing tendency by certain authors over putting
** In 2016, ''another'' controversy in Marvel erupted with the release of ''[[Captain America]]: Steve Rogers'', which revealed Cap to be a sleeper HYDRA agent, and thus by implication [[Those Wacky Nazis|a Nazi]]. Combined with the general writing of the issue shoehorning in contemporary real life matters as part of the [[Red Skull]]'s propaganda speech (while unintentionally humanizing him), this has led to myriad [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/captain-hydra-captain-america-hail-hydra-edits Captain Hydra] [[Memetic Mutation|memes]] and related accusations of characters, the quality of writing and indirectly, the goodwill of comic fans being sacrificed in the name of pushing a political agenda.
=== [[Film]] ===
* The film ''[[Elf]]'', a film unabashedly related to the Christmas holiday starring, y'know, one of Santa's elves, had the tagline of "This Holiday, Discover Your Inner-Elf". Presumably in the film, the cast learns of the true meaning of Holiday.
** This is a common problem in basically every field. Even if something is clearly about Christmas, or a family is shown celebrating a holiday that is clearly Christmas (the calendar itself is saying that it's December 25), mention of the word "Christmas" will often be bowdlerized into "Holiday," "Holidays," or "The Holidays," usually in the marketing campaigns.
* In Germany, the swastikas on all promotional material for ''[[Inglourious Basterds]]'' are censored. While [[No Swastikas|the depiction of swastikas is technically illegal in Germany]], the law clearly states that this ban does not apply to works of art (among other things). The law, however, does not exempt commercial use and advertising, so leaving the swastika out of promotional material is actually prescribed.
* The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Production_Code Motion Picture Production Code], also known as the [[Hays Code]], was in many ways the film equivalent to the [[Comics Code|Comics Code Authority]], albeit predating it by over 20 years. Established in 1930, it was intended to mitigate government intervention in Hollywood and impose industry-wide moral guidelines on what's deemed acceptable. This meant a growth in the influence of [[Moral Guardians]] in cinema as well as practices encouraging bans and self-censorship. Over time however, the Code became unsustainable and unenforceable in the face of growing competition, social changes and simmering dissent. This eventually led to its ignoble end in 1968 and being replaced in the U.S. by the MPAA film rating system, though its legacy continues to reverberate well into the present.
=== [[Literature]] ===
* The non-fiction book ''Who Stole the News'' mentions an incident when a reporter on an aircraft carrier was reprimanded for saying that the blast from a jet plane could "blow a man overboard". He was told to change it to 'person', whereupon he pointed out a) there were no women on board US navy aircraft carriers in a combat zone (it was the first Gulf War) and b) it was a Man Overboard drill not a Person Overboard drill.
* ''The Language Police'' by Diane Ravitch is about this phenomenon, specifically when applied to textbooks. It even includes a huge glossary of "banned words" and other material that has been banned from the texts.
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* In [[Michael Flynn]]'s ''[[Spiral Arm|The January Dancer]]'', Donovan uses this ironically, addressing {{spoiler|a rock -- excuse me, silicon-based lifeform.}}
=== [[Live-Action TV]] ===
* When ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' was launched, media described Tuvok as an "African-American Vulcan" when, as an alien, he was neither African nor American. Of course, the actor is.
** Perhaps they couldn't get the rights to use [[Superfriends|Black Vulcan's]] name?
=== [[Tabletop Games]] ===
* Seven cards described as racist have been banned in ''[[Magic: the Gathering]]'', even in Vintage. They also removed the images from their database (which is already missing a lot of stuff anyways), and also changed the Multiverse ID number for a single card, causing old links to it to no longer work. (Fortunately, the Oracle text has not been removed for any of these cards.)
=== [[Video Games]] ===
* The [[Pokémon]] Jynx was originally designed with black "skin" and is based on a combination of a Japanese spirit called a [https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Yama-uba yama-uba] and [[wikipedia:Ganguro|ganguro women]]. A woman named Carole Boston Weatherford complained about Jynx's racial offensiveness since they resemble the golliwog, a racist caricature, so Jynx has since been redesigned to be purple. Complaints about the changes still persist.
* Players of ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' used to be able to get a pet Maine Coon cat until a small but extremely vocal group of players whined to have it removed. When other players pointed out that Maine Coon was a ''real life'' breed of cat and not racist in any way (they're so big legend has it the breed was created by interbreeding with raccoons), the other side refused to admit defeat and instead pointed out that "There's no Maine in Azeroth!" End result, the pet was renamed and is now a Black Tabby. (note: it ''never'' looked like a Maine Coon even before the change, so it was an odd choice of name in the first place. Probably NOT why people complained about it, though)
** The developers also "[[Executive Meddling|chose]]" to change the name of the weapon "The Nicker" to "The Blackrock Slicer" because the former name was [[Mondegreen|enough]] to create a hurricane of racist jokes among the vocal and stupid members of the community. Originally it was called that because it was a two-handed battle axe with a blade in the shape of an oversized razor blade; the joke being that getting cut with it was like nicking yourself shaving, only much worse.
** In late 2021, the Shadowlands Patch 9.1.5 removed over seventy lines of dialogue, and changed a couple of background images, in a purge of "suggestive" content in the game, some going right back to the beginning. Whether these changes have anything to do with sexual harassment scandals affecting Activision Blizzard at the time, [[There Are No Coincidences|who can say]]?
* In ''[[City Ville]]'', players can build a Wedding Hall as a Community Building. It looks like a church, with no other religious iconography. After arguments that it wasn't inclusive enough, Wedding Halls are now a nondescript building with two giant rings on it. Those who already had the church can still keep it.
* The RPG ''Pillars of Eternity'' by Obsidian Entertainment includes various, optional "joke" details stemming from the game's Kickstarter campaign. But after an outcry over supposed misogyny and transphobia in one particular tombstone epitaph, the developers were forced to remove such jokes from the game.
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** The [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7ZpQadiyqs reveal trailer] for the very next instalment of the ''Battlefield'' franchise, ''Battlefield V'', contained multiple historical inaccuracies, such as a British soldier armed with a katana with a golden hilt, or incorrectly modelled manned V1s being used as tactical weapons (manned V1s [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fieseler_Fi_103R_Reichenberg existed] but were never put into action due to the suicidal nature of them). But the most glaring of them all is no doubt the seemingly unkillable female British soldier with a mechanical arm and a modified cricket bat that seems to be the central focus of the trailer. Gamers, who were expecting a historically authentic and gritty WWII simulator, were left disappointed and started protesting with #NotMyBattlefield. Instead of simply claiming that they are trying to create an alternative version of WWII to explain the historical inaccuracies/ add more cosmetic options/ make the game more "inclusive" etc. EA instead choose to defend their choices in every which way. The design director of the game claims on r/Battlefield that the reason behind his decision to add female soldiers is that his daughter wants to be "represented" in the game, and that adding female soldiers puts him "on the right side of history". <ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/Battlefield/comments/8mhkld/bfv_it_appears_eadice_are_the_ones_who_are/dzntoso/</ref> A developer of Battlefield V also later stated in an interview with IGN that "IT'S 'A SHAME' DICE DIDN'T INCLUDE WOMEN IN BATTLEFIELD 1"<ref>https://archive.today/20180822021045/http://ca.ign.com/articles/2018/08/21/battlefield-v-developer-says-its-a-shame-dice-didnt-include-women-in-battlefield-1</ref> ([[Critical Research Failure|except they did]] with both Zarya being the protagonist of one of the War Stories and later The Women's Battalion Of Death added as DLC.) Patrick Soderlünd, the chief creative officer of EA has gone one step further, calling the critics of the game "uneducated" and stated that if those who are not happy with the game should not buy it while also sighting his daughter.<ref>https://np.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/8qkh0k/patrick_soderlund_ea_is_also_citing_his_daughter/</ref> Various game journalists also jumped in and defend Battlefield V, EA and DICE,<ref>https://np.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/8lv6m9/battlefield_v_the_people_complaining_about_a/</ref> with some using similar tones with Soderlünd. Gamers took Soderlünd's advise to heart, and the results showed<ref>https://venturebeat.com/2018/08/21/battlefield-v-preorders-are-below-expectations-but-it-isnt-about-to-bomb/</ref><ref>https://forums.battlefield.com/en-us/discussion/151220/battlefield-v-pre-orders-are-weak</ref><ref>https://www.vg247.com/2018/08/16/battlefield-5-weak-pre-orders-report/</ref><ref>https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/20/cowen-predicts-eas-battlefield-v-will-be-a-serious-disappointment-citing-weak-pre-orders.html</ref>. In order to counter the backlash, EA delayed the game's release to November 2018 and made the announcement that Patrick Soderlünd will be leaving EA soon.<ref>https://www.ea.com/en-ca/news/an-update-on-our-creative-leadership</ref> While the exact reason of his departure wasn't stated, many speculated that it's due to him being a PR liability.
=== [[Web
* Some of the examples on the pages for [[Family-Unfriendly Aesop]], [[Unfortunate Implications]], and other related tropes can dip into this when people start reading too deeply into things. [[Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment|Please don't list anything specific, alright]]?
* The online comics community scans_daily is probably more famed for this than for anything else, with a long list of rules that is dedicated almost solely to how not to offend anybody (and thus get banned), with the rules for posting comics as almost an afterthought.
* A growing trend among various sites, including online news services/publications is the censoring and outright removal of comment sections, out of alleged "toxicity" and
* Game streaming site Twitch
* [[Plebcomics]], [http://plebcomics.tumblr.com/ a rather popular female artist on Tumblr] [http://i.imgur.com/gNr4MHw.png was doxxed and even fired from her job] by social justice warriors and "activists" due to her "problematic" comics and views.<ref>Among other things, expressing criticism against feminism and other anti-SJW or politically incorrect opinions.</ref> Not only did she eventually get her job and life back, however, but ultimately, she [https://twitter.com/shoe0nhead/status/685314459750019077 got the last laugh].
* A number of [[YouTube]] videos had to be [[Symbol Swearing|asterisked]] and blurred out due to fears about YouTube's [[Censorship Bureau]] demonetizing videos covering sensitive topics such as [[Those Wacky Nazis|Nazism]] and true crime subjects. Even words such as "kill" or "drugged" are [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3O972aJ2Fc censored out] despite them being used in a scholarly or commentary context.
=== [[Western Animation]] ===
* ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' shorts have been victims of this for a long time. Many older shorts are sprinkled with content no longer considered suitable for children, which means that some scenes get cut and leave the overall effect pretty disjointed. Others are never shown on kids TV at all anymore, only to adults who seek them out and are assumed to be able to understand the context they were written in.
** The DVD releases for most of the older (pre-1960s) animated shorts now come with a disclaimer regarding how such racist overtones were once acceptable behavior, but the publishing company is only including it to be accurate.
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* In 2016, an episode of ''[[Steven Universe]]'' was censored in the United Kingdom for homosexual content. Although social justice warriors were quick to ride to the defence of the show and its fans however, some have expressed how hypocritical their behavior is especially in light of [[Gamergate]], when many of those same folks have [[Double Standard|endorsed the opposite when it comes to other works]].
=== [[Real Life]] ===
* In 2010, Microsoft banned someone from [[Xbox]] Live because he (truthfully) identified his home location as Fort Gay, West Virginia ([[wikipedia:Fort Gay, West Virginia|the town's actual name]]). Fortunately, they retracted the ban after the town representatives spoke up. They also banned someone for entering "Dick Wood" into the name field of their [[Xbox]] Live account. His name is, in fact, Richard Wood. No word on if they ever rescinded the ban, or if he's just barred from their service because they find his name objectionable.
* [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/7079231/Advert-for-reliable-workers-banned-as-discrimination-by-Jobcentre-Plus.html This brief, isolated, yet hilarious example]
* Subverted: when the Smithsonian "Museum of the American Indian" opened, a petition quickly pulled up to change it to "Native American". It was quashed by request of none other than the Muscogee High Chief. Most of the complaints for Indians aren't made by Indians. Furthermore, the museum is not about "Native ''Americans''" but is about all of the people indigenous to the New World.
* Related: a college campus newspaper once interviewed flautist R. Carlos Nakai, who objected to the term 'Native American'. He preferred instead to be referred to as a member of his specific tribe, or even generically as an 'Indian' (the reasoning being that the term 'Indian' was the result of an honest mistake that just happened to stick, whereas 'Native American' imposes a nationality not of his choosing). Nonetheless, the article went on to refer to Nakai as a Native American ''at least five times after he voiced his objection!''
* ''[[British Newspapers|The Guardian]]'', a left-liberal British newspaper which is the exact polar opposite of the ''Daily Mail'', insists in its style and usage guide to contributors that the word "actress" is now obsolete, and all members of the thespian profession, regardless of gender, should be described as "actors". As many (but by no means ''all'') female thespians prefer to be called "actors" these days, this is perhaps for the good and takes individual wishes into account. The Guardian's stablemate, the Sunday ''Observer'', appears to ask first how the lady wishes to be described and uses ''actress/actor'' according to her wishes. However, this came unstuck when one day the Guardian had to publish an obituary for a deceased Italian film director, who in life had been a notorious Berlusconi with regard to the casting couch. It found itself using the phrase "He was notorious for the sheer number of aspiring [[Pedo Hunt|young]] [[Ho Yay|actors who he seduced]]" - thus, in accepted ''general'' English usage, giving the celebrated director a 100% turnabout in his gender preferences, recasting him in death as a predatory gay man.
** ''The Guardian'' has long developed a reputation for such gaffes, despite pretensions to the contrary. To the point that it's not above [https://archive.today/20151217110857/http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/dec/16/censor-art-books-times-rijksmuseum justifying the censorship and editing of art] to better "fit in with the times."
* In the "Selfless White Sensitivity for Native Americans' Sake" category, the NCAA attempted to strike North Dakota's "Fighting Sioux" team name as "derogatory". Basic summary of the response to the NCAA by actual Sioux: [https://web.archive.org/web/20131005080746/http://plainsdaily.com/entry/spirit-lake-sioux-tribe-announces-lawsuit-against-ncaa-alleging-civil-rights-violations-and-copyright-infringement/ "Fuck you."]
* Use the editing feature of some word processing programs, like Windows Desktop, and they will catch words that might be offensive for absurd reasons. While "waitress' and "mailman" are at least understandable, changing the word "thug"<ref>"Thug" originally referred to the murderous [https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Thuggee Thugee cult], which only enforces the idea that "thug" means "criminal", something most modern-day Hindu would not deny</ref> to avoid religious controversy, or "guy" to prevent gender controversy, or "toilet" to account for regional differences make very little sense.
== Examples of political correctness being parodied ==
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* Audi used this in their [http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-6186859-503544.html?tag=untagged Green Police Ads]. Essentially the gestapo in smart cars.
* Virgin Mobile used this in their advertisements during the winter of 2007-2008. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73vcbde8Cb8\]
* Snickers had a football team being blessed before the big game by about twenty different holy men, a priest, a rabbi, an American Indian shaman, etc, all in the name of Political Correctness, with the implication this was going to take all afternoon.
=== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ===
* The ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'' OVA "Paint It White" is about a race of aliens who use light to change everyone into gray emotionless faceless humanoid creatures, in an attempt to get them to stop fighting and pouting. They set up a base with [[Off-Model]] versions of several countries' famous landmarks around it.
* ''[[Shimoneta]]: A Boring World Where the Concept of Dirty Jokes Doesn't Exist'' is all about this, depicting a world in which political correctness, censorship and moralism have become the norm.
=== [[Comic Books]] ===
* For a brief period in ''[[X-Factor (comics)|X-Factor]],'' mutants were known as "genetically challenged" or "geecees" for short. The character who coined the phrase was being funny, but it still caught on . . .
* An old strip from ''[[The Wizard of Id]]'' had the King of Id threatening to imprison anyone caught telling ethnic jokes. When one of his guards quips "We don't have a Chinaman's chance of making that stick," the next panel shows said guard in the dungeon.
* Wet Blanket from ''[[Empowered]]'' personifies this trope. Strangely, working together with supervillains is no problem for him.
* The independent comic ''[[Druid City]]'' features a [[Straw Feminist]] character named Carla Cortez who supports ridiculously politically correct causes. She once lobbied to changed the name of Asperger's Syndrome, and protests that female cockroaches should be renamed vaginaroaches.
=== [[Film]] ===
* The movie ''PCU'' is a [[Wacky Fratboy Hijinx]] film set against the backdrop of a [[Strawman U|I-can't-believe-it's-not-Berkeley]] college where everybody protests everything. The movie's climax actually had the students ''protest that they were not going to protest''.
* Parodied in ''[[Undercover Brother]]''; the all-black B.R.O.T.H.E.R.H.O.O.D organisation has exactly one white employee, [[Neil Patrick Harris|Lance]] (who is stereotypically 'white' -- i.e nerdy, uncool and lame), who only has his job there because of affirmative action. He's often heard complaining about their politically incorrect attitudes towards ''him''.
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* In the remake of the film ''[[The Lady Killers]]'', one of the characters (a foul-mouthed, "gangsta" black teen) is fired for hitting on a female customer. When he hears he's fired, he says his boss is doing it because he's black. The entire cleaning staff is black, and the guy doesn't fall for it until they bribe him.
* In [[Dmitry Puchkov]]'s [[Gag Dub]] of ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]: The Return of The King'', Elrond insists on calling elves "Elven-Americans" to be PC.
* In ''[[RoboCop]] 2'', Robocop is revamped to be a more politically-correct role model by having over two hundred directives installed in his brain to teach "pro-social" messages (as defined by a committee). It drives him effectively insane.
* In ''[[Hot Fuzz]]'', Sgt. Angel is such a [[By-The-Book Cop]] that he constantly interrupts his fellow officers to insert correct terminology (police service because police force is too aggressive, etc)
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* ''[[Blackboard Jungle]]'' has the teacher of a notoriously troublemaking class demonstrate how hurtful their use of slurs can be. One of the students then tries to get him in trouble by reporting him for using those words in class, deliberately leaving out the context. Luckily, the teacher is quickly believed when he explains the truth.
=== [[Literature]] ===
* [[Kurt Vonnegut]]'s short story
* Also by Vonnegut, in ''[[The Sirens of Titan]]'', the Church of God the Utterly Indifferent has people handicap themselves so that everybody is equal—for instance, a good runner always carries a heavy bag to slow him down, or somebody with good eyesight wears glasses that nearly blind him.
* In the atheist-ruled world of ''Soon'' by [[Left Behind|Jerry Jenkins]], Christmas has been replaced by 'Wintermas'. Apparently Jenkins felt that having 'Christ' in the world would have offended the [[Straw Atheist]] world government but the word 'mas(s)' is left untouched.
* Some ''[[Discworld]]'' novels feature the Campaign for Equal Heights, who protest about using terms like "short weight", and insist employers should hire three dwarfs for every two humans because humans are half again as tall. Most of their campaigners are human; dwarfs are baffled by the whole thing. (And if they ''do'' feel insulted by humans, they can make their feelings quite clear without any help, except possibly a battleaxe. Generally, though, a dwarf will answer such insults by outworking a human, making better stuff, getting more money, and buying his business out from under him.)
** There is also at least one human who has renamed himself Strong-in-the-arm and cranked up his prices because "Dwarf Made" is a synonym for quality. The Campaign for Equal Heights can't complain because it would require them to draw attention to his height as a disqualifying point.
** There are also the "differently alive" (''not'' "undead") like vampires (hereditary) and banshees, not the same as "living impaired" for those who have died but are still walking around, or "vitally challenged" (''not'' "dead") persons. Except in rare instances that those who have died and ''aren't'' walking around are considered lazy by people who should really know better (Reg Shoe, mostly). There was also, for a brief time, a group of humans who wanted to protect troll rights. Trolls never joined, because they thought they already had plenty of rights, what with being multi-ton masses of living stone.
* In ''[[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (novel)|Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire]]'' and continuing on afterward, Hermione founds S.P.E.W. in order to free the house elves from slavery. The majority of the characters roll their eyes at this, suggesting that Hermione is taking it too far. It's later revealed that even the elves are against it, since they [[Happiness in Slavery|enjoy serving others]]. Dobby later tells Hermione that the house elves appreciate her sentiment and that she's thinking of their well-being, but what they don't appreciate is that she was trying to ''trick'' them into accepting clothing against their will, making them regard her as something of a [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]].
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* A story by [[Connie Willis]] called
* ''Incompetence'' by [[Rob Grant]] is set in a future United States of Europe where (based on actual laws proposed in France) it is illegal to discriminate against candidates for employment not only on the grounds of gender, age, race or creed, but on ''actual ability to do the job'', with predictable results.
** ''[[Mad Magazine]],'' appropriately enough, had an article like this wherein at the close of the article one person got to join the NBA despite being ''dead'', and the horrible circus accident where a six-foot-tall "midget" clown suffocated inside a clown car along with his three-foot-tall co-workers because of being hired via affirmative action.
** A sketch from ''[[Not the Nine O'Clock News]]'' went even further: the dead worker should be paid overtime because he spends so much time in the office.
** It was also a [[Tom Lehrer]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0L_rD7CCe4&NR=1 one-liner].
* A duo of "children's books" called ''Politically Correct Bedtime Stories'' take this trope and run wild with it, to the point of parody and turning the old classics into something new and amusing in their own right. Ant and the Grasshopper? Ant gets arrested for illegal stockpiling. Princess and the Pea? The "Princess" turns out to be a medium who channels many different spirits, which makes for interesting mealtimes at the castle. Little Mermaid? The rescued prince ends up getting a genetic procedure done so that he becomes half-man, half-prawn, instead of her going to live up with him. And then there was the "Politically Correct Alphabet"...
* Though this is never explicitly stated in the book, it's likely that Political Correctness Gone Mad played a role in the development of the [[Utopia Justifies the Means]] society of ''[[The Giver]]''. Even ''color'' is eliminated. Not just skin color -- ''all'' color except black, grey and white. And couples don't actually reproduce through intercourse, but are assigned exactly two children (children are born to specifically designated Birth Mothers who are never seen) and every citizen begins taking medication during puberty to suppress "[[No Sex Allowed|the Stirrings]]".
* There is a story called
* The backstory of ''[[Fahrenheit 451]]'' gives this as the reason for the censorship and banning of virtually all printed literature. [[Word of God]] states his point was television dumbing down people too much so they banned books because thinking become too strenuous. Guess he should have focused on the dumbness part more.
* The second ''[[Odd Thomas]]'' book, ''Forever Odd'', has a hand in this. The Pico Mundo high school football team used to be called the Braves. Someone got it into their head that this offended the Native Americans in the area and so the school was forced to change their name to the Gila Monsters. They call themselves the Monsters, though, saving some embarrassment. The really stupid thing about this? NONE OF THE INDIANS WERE COMPLAINING. [[Truth in Television]] since most of the complaints for Indians aren't made by Indians. In fact, when the Smithsonian "Museum of the American Indian" opened, a petition quickly pulled up to change it to "Native American". It was quashed by a request from none other than the Muscogee High Chief.
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* In the Swedish YA novel ''Omin Hammbe i Slättköping'', Omin (a black kid, in fact the only kid in town who isn't purely ethnic Swedish) performs a prank with two friends at school. When he is exempt from punishment because the headmaster is afraid of looking racist, he gets very angry because the treatment is racist in itself: is the headmaster saying he can't be hold responsible for what he does because he is black (i.e., he's stupid)? That he cannot take detention because he is from Africa? He insists on going through with detention.
=== [[Live-Action
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' has a banner in the Magic Box for multiple December holidays including "Gurnenthar's Ascension".
* ''[[Angel]]''
** Wesley once appeared with a black eye after saving a pair of power walkers from being devoured by a Hacklar demon. The injury wasn't inflicted by the demon.
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{{quote|'''JD''': It's so great because the residents are practically our slaves.
'''In JD's head''': Ah! I just said "slave" to my new, black girlfriend! }}
* ''[[30
** In one episode, Liz discovered that she simply could not tell her black date that she disliked him as a person without being [[Mistaken for Racist]]. At the end of the episode, the following conversation is set to inspirational music:
{{quote|'''Liz''': Can't one human being not like another human being? Can't we all just not get along?
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* ''[[X-Play]]'' wishes all of its viewers a "Happy Non-Denominational Winter Season". The winter shows with this theme tend to depict the hosts with a forced air of polite cheer and [[I Need a Freaking Drink|vodka in place of their cocoa]].
=== [[Music]] ===
* "Politically Correct Christmas" by Metropolitan Melinda
* "Happy Whatever You're Having" by the Therapy Sisters
* "A Christmas/Kwanzaa/Solstice/Chanukah/Ramadan/Boxing Day Song" by Christine Lavin & the Mistletones
* "You Don't Bring Me Floriculturally Diverse Polyfragrant Soilistically Challenged Multipetaled Victims of Pesticidal Food Chain Chauvinism" by the Capitol Steps.
* [[Stan Freberg]] did this back in 1957, when he sang (purportedly at the insistence of a [[Moral Guardian]]) "''Elderly'' Man River", with political correctness and proper grammar and pronunciation—i.e., ridiculously [[Bowdlerization|Bowdlerized]].
{{quote|He doesn't plant taters -- ''[[Verbal Backspace|potatoes]]''
He doesn't plant cotton -- ''[[Rule of Funny|cotting]]''<ref>The censor had previously objected to him leaving the 'g' off the end of "nothin'" but doesn't object to correcting these into incorrect words, ironically.</ref>
And them's -- ''these'' -- ''those'' that plant them
Are soon [[Rule of Funny|forgotting]]... }}
** Upon coming to the "you get a little drunk, and you land in..." line he gives up.
* "Alternative Tango" by Victoria Wood, in which she comes up with a number of different euphemism for her insult of choice, which has now been banned.
* A Capella group Straight No Chaser's "Christmas Can-Can"; in the second verse one singer complains, "It's not fair if you're Jewish," and then breaks into the Dreidel Song("Dreidel, dreidel, dreidel, I made it out of clay,"). During the second verse he flatly states, "I'm gonna go get some Chinese food", before the other singers include him in their song, wishing him a happy Hanukkah (and merry Kwanzaa to their African-American singer).
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* This was zigzagged in a short series of ''[[Bloom County]]'' strips, where Binkley and Oliver accused Crayola of a "Republican conspiracy" for having "racially insensitive" pink crayons labeled "flesh". However, their CEO [[Corrupt Corporate Executive| W. A. Thornhump]] quickly appeared in a strip with an apology (pleading with Crayola not to sue them) admitting that the haven't had "flesh" crayons since 1963. Opus walks in, adding, "They do have "Indian Red", though..."<ref>[[Truth in Television]], although technically, they first changed it from "flesh tint" to "flesh" in 1903, then to "pink beige", and back to "flesh", permanently changing it to "peach" in 1963. As for "Indian Red", that was changed to "chestnut" in 1999.</ref>
=== [[Recorded and Stand Up Comedy]] ===
* [[Russell Peters]] has a piece where he's playing Bla... oh, sorry, African-Americanjack.
* [[Larry the Cable Guy]] did a routine where he translated [[A Visit from St. Nicholas|"'Twas The Night Before Christmas"]] into PC-speak. [[Santa Claus|Non-Denominational Holiday Figure]]'s trademark "ho ho ho" was replaced with "lady-of-the-evening lady-of-the-evening lady-of-the-evening"
** It was a regular feature on ''[[Blue Collar TV]]''. He also had "Snow Caucasian and the Seven Handy Capable Little Persons" (including Mood-Enhanced Little Person, Slightly Mentally Impaired Little Person, and Little Person in Need of Anger Management, among others), Vertically-Challenged Native American Riding Hood, and The Tortoise and the Hare and the Non-Competitive Fun Run, amongst others. All versions lampshade this trope endlessly.
* [[Bill Bailey]] : "[...] and a feminist jumped out of a manhole and she didn't like ''that''".
* British comic Stewart Lee [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGAOCVwLrXo does a brilliant routine defending political correctness] by discussing how insisting "political correctness has gone mad" has lost meaning due to people using it as a [[Straw Man]] for everything they disagree with:
{{quote|[On his Nan abusing the term to confusion] "In the old days, you could get your head and you could submerge it in a vat of boiling acid, and now they're going 'Oh, don't do that, what if Jews see it? It'll annoy the Jews'."}}
* [[Robin Williams]], in reference to people complaining about mentioning God in the Pledge of Allegiance, suggested, "How about, 'One Nation, under Canada, over Mexico'!"
=== [[Theatre]] ===
* ''The Complete History of America (Abridged)'' includes a politically correct version of "America the Beautiful." Among other alterations to the lyrics, "God" is replaced with "non-theologically specific supreme being (if she exists)."
=== [[Video Games]] ===
* When ''Richard Garriott's [[Tabula Rasa]]'' was still running, it featured this trope for the holiday season. The AFS referred to it as "Seasonal Holiday Observance" or SHO, where major military bases would sport a "Festive Seasonal Holiday Observance Flora" (Christmas tree), under which soldiers could find "Holiday Hats" (a Santa Claus hat). The political correctness was probably tongue-in-cheek given the overblown military acronym style of the names.
* [[Graham Nelson]]'s seminal interactive fiction game ''Curses'' used the phrase, "Call a spade a spade." This lead to protests from a surprising number of people who thought this was a racist phrase, when in fact it comes from ancient greek and really does refer to spades.
* In ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'', this was [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|Mr. Mination's]] fatal flaw: He refused to wear the Monarch of Crimbo's hat, since the color red is offensive to the colorblind, and the fur trim is offensive to naked mole rats. If you choose to fight Uncle Crimbo and win, he throws that hat on the ground, [[What an Idiot!|allowing Uncle Crimbo to take it, get his power back, and split Mr. Mination back into his composite elves.]]
=== [[Web Original]] ===
* On ''[[Homestar Runner]]'', resident Granola Girl Marzipan hosts a disturbingly politically correct school program called [[Fun with Acronyms|L.U.R.N.]] in the Strong Bad Email [http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail160.html "coloring"]. Students are referred to as "life-blossoms", classes are in a variety of environmentally conscious topics such as "eco-algebra" and "talking to animals", and coloring is done with crayons that have "politically correct" names (like "Crimson Suggestion" for "red") and can't actually be used to color, "[[Tall Poppy Syndrome|so that no one life-blossom shines brighter than any other]]".
* In ''[[Red vs. Blue]]'', Andy is a sentient bomb, and [[Cloudcuckoolander|Caboose]] tells everyone to refer to him as an "Explosive-American."
** Don't even get Doc started with this. Any time anyone says anything that could possibly be construed as offensive toward anyone at all, he jumps in with the inane politically correct version. Most notable in one of the holiday specials, where he constantly corrects even himself.
** Sarge, of course, would have nothing to do with it. It doesn't work out well for him.
* "[[Pirate|Piracy]]" is such a condemning word. How about ''"[http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/File:MPost12935-60261929db%2Ejpg pre-emptive nautical salvage experts]"''?
* Speaking of ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', [[Log Fic]] ''[http://www.cwsargeras.blogspot.com/2009/03/scourge-chat-log-1.html The original
{{quote|
'''<nowiki>[BlizzardRep]</nowiki>''': Phylumism, were it an actual thing, would go against everything we stand for as a corporation.
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* [http://www.xkcdb.com/?7139 Those statements] are "lactose intolerant". And not in ''that'' sense.
* From a deleted article on Wikipedia: ''[http://bjaodn.org/wiki/All_Your_Bad_Joke_And_Other_Deleted_Nonsense_Are_Belong_To_Us#Huperprogeny Huperprogeny]'', a "politically correct" term for ''Human'' ("man"->"person", "son"->"progeny").
* The ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m-e4PgiVfM&nohtml5=False Welcome to Tumblr]'' video is as much a satirical [[Take That]] to the titular site's PC notoriety as an [[Affectionate Parody]] of 50s-style instruction films.
* A good deal of Australian comedian and filmmaker Neel Kolhatkar's work involves poking fun at political correctness and just about everything related to it. His 2015 short film ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM-HJT8_esM #Equality]'' and its sequel ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKcWu0tsiZM&nohtml5=False Modern Edukashun]'', however are much more scathing in this regard to the point of being outright ''terrifying.''
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* [[Meaningful Name|Mr. Butch]] from ''[[Chopping Block]]'' [http://choppingblock.org/d/20080111.html objects to some terms] too.
* ''[[Penny Arcade (Webcomic)|Penny Arcade]]'' conducts a sociological survey on [[Double Standard|double standards]]—so [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/2/18/ Please Check One] (the inspiration is ''[[Resident Evil 5]]'', which involves the killing of zombified Africans, when the main protagonist is white, and his partner is [[But Not Too Black|Not Too Black]]).
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* ''[[Pictures for Sad Children]]'' has a strip in which a father disapproves of his child staring at a man-eating monster because he [http://picturesforsadchildren.com/index.php?comicID=280 "can't help the way he looks."]{{Dead link}}
* A representative for the Giant Disembodied Zombie Heads (one of the basement-dwelling races in ''[[Skin Horse]]'') takes offense at being called "undead", preferring the term "undead-''american''".
* As ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'' points out, Hasbro folk [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0729.html obviously cater to] the [[Nip and Tuck|lizard feminists]].
* A good parody of "preventive groveling" style: [[Alt Text]] Luke Surl added to [http://www.lukesurl.com/archives/1476 this] [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]. And another one [http://www.lukesurl.com/archives/1461 here].
* ''[[Pibgorn]]'' [[Our Trolls Are Different|Troll?]] Hardly! [http://www.gocomics.com/pibgorn/2002/12/18/ Bridge substructure symbiont.]
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* ''[[The Noob]]'' got [http://www.thenoobcomic.com/index.php?pos=308 this gem]. Of course, GMs ''are''... "[http://www.thenoobcomic.com/index.php?pos=358 paid professionals]" - [[Pointy-Haired Boss|corporate bureaucrats with vague idea of what they're doing]], and the lead developer is a bit crazy.
** One [[Christmas Episode]] had "[http://www.thenoobcomic.com/index.php?pos=413 Generic Salutations From Clichequest!]"
* ''[[User Friendly]]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20200806025850/http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20051204 here], on spyware and <s>breaking and entering</s> "domicile trailblazing".
* ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' occasionally parodies this
* ''[[Freefall]]'' got [http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1100/fv01044.htm laws] that prohibit search of personnel database for pretty much any trait useful to identify someone, except maybe tattoos. Also, [http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1200/fv01101.htm handicapped access for burglars].
=== [[Western Animation]] ===
* The basic idea behind ''[[The Goode Family]]''.
* In
** In the
** In an earlier episode, the kids bought ice cream from an ice cream van called "Native American Ice Cream (formerly Big Chief Crazy Cone)".
* ''[[South Park]]'' does this one several times a season. In "Death Camp of Tolerance", the kids are sent to the eponymous camp after they complain about Mr. Garrison being "gay"... when they're ''trying'' to say [[Poor Communication Kills|that Mr. Garrison is performing sexual acts in front of the class]]. At said camp, they are ''held at gunpoint and deprived of food''.
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* In an episode of ''[[Rick and Steve]]'', the gang goes to [[San Francisco]] for Pride Week, only to be shunned by the rest of the gay population for being [[Invisible to Gaydar|normal-acting gay people]], rather than [[Camp Gay|extreme stereotypes]]. Also, the introduction to the Mayor's Welcome Speech lasts the entire episode, as he is sure to include the politically correct term for every sexual preference imaginable.
* In one ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' sketch, you see a standing in front of the [[Creature from the Black Lagoon]]. [https://web.archive.org/web/20130310045917/http://video.adultswim.com/robot-chicken/the-lagoon-creatures-name.html Or as the creature would say . . .]
* In an episode of ''[[Clifford's Puppy Days]]'' the family was on a trip for "Fall Feast" instead of "Thanksgiving".
* One episode in the original ''[[Powerpuff Girls]]'' parodied the notion of victimhood culture and implicitly, social justice. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUdHA5liNec&nohtml5=False Ironically foreshadowing] the sort of mindsets that before long came to be associated with [[Tumblr]].
* The fifth season of ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]'' has the song "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZn69bVonGg In Our Town]" which satirizes cult behavior as well as various views associated with political correctness and social justice.
== Examples of stories complaining about it ==
=== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ===
* There's an episode of ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou-sensei]]'' about prejudice. Near the end of the episode, Nozomu is about to have sex with a gay man because he thought that turning down his advances would be offensive. He did not enjoy it.
=== [[Comic Books]] ===
* [[Superman]]'s denouncing of his U.S. citizenship had people raving that an American hero was being taken from them for the sake of being PC. In reality, however, Superman's reasons make a lot of sense, he's a hero to everybody, not just the States, and he doesn't want to feel like he has to be loyal to just one country, when the whole world needs his help. Also a case of [[Did Not Do the Research]] or [[They Just Didn't Care]] on the part of the author about looking into the matter of Superman's citizenship, because at one time it was stated that he held honorary citizenship in pretty much ''every single country in the world'', already making him a citizen of Earth. Combined with this, his decision to renounce his American citizenship and ''only'' his American citizenship is why it's interpreted as a deliberate snub.
=== [[Literature]] ===
* In ''[[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (novel)|Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone]]'', Uncle Vernon is presented as a ''Daily Mail'' reader and makes some comments indicating a reactionary viewpoint.
* In the book version of ''[[Layer Cake]]'', one chapter shows the protagonist at a barbershop with his con artist friend, who is pretending to be plummy aristocrat "Lord Hugo". In this persona, he expresses some very "Mailesque" views (reinstating national service, complaining about giving Hong Kong back to the "slope heads", etc.) and hearty endorsement from both the other patrons and the staff. At the same time, the protagonist is pretending to be a South American footballer who doesn't speak English and is addressed to his face as a dago and similar ethnic slurs.
* Harry [[Flashman]] is an interesting case. He subverts [[Politically-Correct History]] through being a man of views typical to his kind: extremely racist and politically incorrect, speaking of what we would consider unambiguously good individuals like anti-slavery activists as crazy liberals. However, the author [[Writer on Board|increasingly uses him to point out the follies of the above as the series progresses]].
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* The ''[[Discworld]]'' books feature a few jokes depicting people who [[Fantastic Racism|object to the increasing numbers of non-humans in Ankh-Morpork]] as ill-informed buffoons at best.
=== [[Live-Action TV]] ===
* DCI Gene Hunt from ''[[Life On Mars]]'' is highly politically incorrect and rather popular with the viewing public because of it. One of his more printable quotes is:
{{quote|'''Gene:''' Dealers are so scared, we're more likely to get Helen Keller to talk. The Paki's in a coma, the evidence is about as hard as Liberace's dick when he's looking at a naked woman, and all in all, this case is going about as fast as a bunch of spastics in a magnet factory! <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[Beat]] ''What?''
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* In ''[[Peep Show]]'', Mark hates 'Political Correctness Gone Mad'. However this attitude is then parodied when Mark has an uncomfortable experience when he makes friends with Darryl, who also hates Political Correctness but turns out to be a racist.
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* [[Brad Paisley]] and the Buckaroos released the "Cowboy Christmas Song", with the word Christmas getting bleeped, then the word White, finally leading them to sing the original version, ignoring the bleeps.
* The [[Yanks With Tanks|USAF]] fighter pilot band ''[[Dos Gringos]]'' has a song called ''You Gotta Be In The Guard'', which decries the increasing restrictions on fighter pilot behavior. The Air National Guard, according to them, is ''more'' lenient on conduct than the Air Force.
=== [[Newspaper Comics]] ===
* At least 50% of ''[[Mallard Fillmore]].'' The other 50% being [[Author Filibuster]]s.
=== [[Recorded and Stand Up Comedy]] ===
* One of [[George Carlin]]'s last performances includes a rant about how the search for political correctness has masked the true nature of the things they are being renamed. He highlights this with the evolution of the term "Shell Shock" to what it's now usually called, "Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder".
=== [[Web Original]] ===
* In an episode of ''[[You Know What's Bullshit?]]'', [[James Rolfe]] explains how people used to say "Merry Christmas", then [[The Ditz|someone]] decided the phrase was offensive to people who did not celebrate Christmas and pushed to replace it with "Happy Holidays", then people complained that not being able to say "Merry Christmas" was offensive to them... in conclusion, James suggested to replace all those phrases with "Happy Shut The Fuck Up".
* [[Seanbaby]] enlisted Frosty the Snowman to combat the War on Christmas in [http://www.cracked.com/blog/frosty-snowman-declares-war-war-christmas/ this comic] from Cracked. What Frosty learns in his quest is '''A:''' the people whining about how offensive and exclusionary the word "Christmas" is are doing so on behalf of people who don't exist, and '''B:''' just let them whine, because Christmas is the most unkillable cultural achievement since pornography and it's not going anywhere.
* This is inverted by [[Moviebob]] in his Big Picture video [https://web.archive.org/web/20130310045842/http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/the-big-picture/2783-Correctitude "Correctitude"], where he claims that it's political ''in''correctness that's gone mad. More specifically, he feels that "PC" has been turned into a [[The War On Straw|strawman]] by people trying to defend their sexism and bigotry.
* Part of the reason why [[Vivian James]] came to be in the first place is in response to the growing presence of political correctness and ideological slander in video games and elsewhere. Which coincidentally comes into conflict with and contradicts [[Moviebob]]'s claims above.
* Similarly to [[Moviebob]], [[MTV]] News' [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3SLzWi3wQU Francesca Ramsey] inverts this trope in a 2016 video by claiming that political correctness not only ''expands'' free speech but is helping make the world a better place in the process. As Youtuber [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2Jlz-tVSFk&nohtml5=False Chris Ray Gun] explains however, not only does said claim not make any sense, but the fact that this is being made at all also demonstrates just how far MTV, once considered irreverent and rebellious, [[Network Decay|has fallen]] into becoming a platform for political correctness.
* This [https://web.archive.org/web/20160728234829/http://www.memecenter.com/fun/3971331/with-what-shit-they-amp-039-ll-come-up-later comic] is meant to highlight how this trope persists in various forms over time and how [[Not So Different|ironically similar]] the [[Moral Guardians]] of yesteryear and today's activists are.
* In [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWM2E9oHlhA this] video, The School of Life presents politeness as an apolitcal alternative to political correctness.
=== [[Western Animation]] ===
* The actual phrase is used on two separate occasions in the animated show ''[[Bromwell High]]''.
** On one occasion, one of the teachers suggests kidnapping someone and when told that's illegal he utters the phrase.
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