“I foresaw political correctness 43 years ago.”
Playboy interview (1996)
Context: I foresaw political correctness 43 years ago. … whereas back then I wrote about the tyranny of the majority, today I'd combine that with the tyranny of the minorities. These days, you have to be careful of both. They both want to control you. … I say to both bunches, Whether you're a majority or minority, bug off! To hell with anybody who wants to tell me what to write. Their society breaks down into subsections of minorities who then, in effect, burn books by banning them. All this political correctness that's rampant on campuses is B. S. You can't fool around with the dangerous notion of telling a university what to teach and what not to.
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2010s, 2016, June, Speech about the Orlando Shooting (June 13, 2016)
April 14, 2010, at a Tea Party Express bus stop in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Ai Weiwei, “In China, Is Censorship the Mother of Creativity?” Interview on The Stream, Aljazeera, April 16, 2012.
2010-, 2012
2018, Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture (2018)
Context: A politics of fear and resentment and retrenchment began to appear, and that kind of politics is now on the move. It’s on the move at a pace that would have seemed unimaginable just a few years ago. I am not being alarmist, I am simply stating the facts. Look around. Strongman politics are ascendant suddenly, whereby elections and some pretense of democracy are maintained – the form of it – but those in power seek to undermine every institution or norm that gives democracy meaning. In the West, you’ve got far-right parties that oftentimes are based not just on platforms of protectionism and closed borders, but also on barely hidden racial nationalism. Many developing countries now are looking at China’s model of authoritarian control combined with mercantilist capitalism as preferable to the messiness of democracy. Who needs free speech as long as the economy is going good? The free press is under attack. Censorship and state control of media is on the rise. Social media – once seen as a mechanism to promote knowledge and understanding and solidarity – has proved to be just as effective promoting hatred and paranoia and propaganda and conspiracy theories.
“I think the big problem this country has is being politically correct.”
Republican Presidential Debate 2015 — * 2015-08-06
Annotated transcript: The Aug. 6 GOP debate
The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/08/06/annotated-transcript-the-aug-6-gop-debate/
2010s, 2015
“I was honored five years ago, ‘man of the year’ in Michigan.”
2020-05-22
Trump’s Dubious Michigan ‘Man of the Year’ Boast
Robert Farley
FactCheck.org
https://www.factcheck.org/2019/08/trumps-dubious-michigan-man-of-the-year-boast/
2020, May 2020
“Political correctness is tyranny with manners.”
Speech at the Harvard Law School (1999), as quoted in "Appreciation : Charlton Heston" in TIME magazine (6 April 2008) http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1728272,00.html
“Politically correct is the language of cowardice.”
An Audience With Billy - 1985
“Political correctness is a war on noticing.”
World War T http://takimag.com/article/world_war_t_steve_sailer/print#axzz4A3cQmle0, Taki's Magazine, January 22, 2014