politically correct

短语

a. 政治立场正确的

发音

AU

词形变化

politically corrected politically correcting politically corrects 三单 politically corrects politically correcting 现在分词 politically corrected 过去式 politically corrected 过去分词 more politically correct 比较级 most politically correct 最高级

别名

PC P.C.

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To modify in a way that is considered more respectful to minorities.

    及物
  2. 2.

    To modify in a way that conforms more to the official position of a government or political party.

    及物
adj.
  1. 1.

    Possessing or conforming to the correct political positions; following the official policies of the government or a political party.

    政治

    Sentiments and expressions of this inaccurate kind prevail in our common, even in our convivial, language. Is a toast asked? ‘The United States’, instead of the ‘People of the United States’, is the toast given. This is not politically correct.

    [On] the one hand we should demand that the poet's work conform to the correct political tendency, on the other hand we have the right to expect that his work be of high quality. … I want to show you that the political tendency of a work can only be politically correct if it is also literarily correct. That means that the correct political tendency includes a literary tendency. For, just to clarify things right away, this literary tendency, which is implicitly or explicitly contained in every correct political tendency – that, and nothing else constitutes the quality of a work.

  2. 2.

    Sensitive to giving offense on the grounds of race, sex, etc.

    政治正确

    贬义 习语

    It appears that in trying to solve one problem - bias - the tech giant has created another: output which tries so hard to be politically correct that it ends up being absurd.

  3. 3.

    Stereotypically left-wing; possessing or conforming to stereotypical left-wing social views.

    贬义 习语 政治

词源

The earliest known attestation occurs in the United States in the late 18th century, in response to a toast made to the United States instead of to the people of the United States. In the early twentieth century the term was associated with the dogmatic application of Stalinist and Communist Party doctrine, and later popularized by Mao Zedong in his essay Where Do Correct Ideas Come From?(1963) which equated “correct” with “the disciplined acceptance of a party line”. In the 1970s it was adopted by wider left-wing politics. The first known use in this sense was by Toni Cade in her anthology The Black Woman (1970). It was subsequently used in a statement by Karen DeCrow in December 1975 in her capacity as president of the National Organization for Women. In the 1980s it acquired the pejorative sense when used to mock conformist liberal academics, their stereotypical political views and alleged attempts to control language.

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