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Line 6: − − The term "Political Correctness" is almost never used non-ironically any more, except by people who deliberately say they're not being politically correct because they know they're about to say something grossly offensive, and don't want anyone to call them on it.
How postmodern.
Furthermore, instead of encouraging supposedly marginalized groups to integrate with and assimilate into the mainstream of Western culture, political correctness ironically encourages them to emphasize and indeed to wallow in their marginalization from society, and to make a public display of such. This is known as [[identity politics]]. The buzzword "[[diversity]]" is widely used to promote this. Gays and lesbians are therefore encouraged to label themselves as "queer" and make public displays of "queerness" calculated to disturb the sensibilities of mainstream people, rather than integrate into the mainstream themselves; Black Americans are encouraged to adopt [[Afrocentrism]] and convert to [[Islam]], etc.
Furthermore, instead of encouraging supposedly marginalized groups to integrate with and assimilate into the mainstream of Western culture, political correctness ironically encourages them to emphasize and indeed to wallow in their marginalization from society, and to make a public display of such. This is known as [[identity politics]]. The buzzword "[[diversity]]" is widely used to promote this. Gays and lesbians are therefore encouraged to label themselves as "queer" and make public displays of "queerness" calculated to disturb the sensibilities of mainstream people, rather than integrate into the mainstream themselves; Black Americans are encouraged to adopt [[Afrocentrism]] and convert to [[Islam]], etc.
==See also==
==See also==
* [[Postmodernism]]
* [[Postmodernism]]