Politically incorrect

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Politically incorrect is not the opposite of political correctness but an admission on the part of the speaker that the audience is about to be sold a line of ignorant bullshit.

It is a code-phrase used by bigots, which roughly translates as "This will offend the imaginary liberals in my brain".

The preferred self-congratulatory term for the enthusiastically offensive. -- Slacktivist

It was also the name of Bill Maher's television show from the late 90s, born on Comedy Central and later picked up by ABC, which was cancelled when he pointed out that the 9/11 hijackers were not actually "cowards".

Also, US conservative publishers Regnery Press publish a series of books called the Politically Incorrect Guides, which are largely written to resemble the successful ...for Dummies series from Wiley and Complete Idiot's Guide from Alpha Books. Written as they are primarily by right-wing hacks such as Tom Bethell and Jonathan Wells, it is generally agreed outside the wingnut world that they are both political (being heavily biased towards dogmatic conservatism) and incorrect (both scientifically and historically). The evolution blog Panda's Thumb initiated a series meant to be a point-by-point fisking of the PIG to Intelligent Design by noted ID advocate and would-be scientist Jonathan Wells; due to the sheer volume of stupid in that one book alone, the series never quite finished.

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