Word: dismissed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reactionaries who dismiss liberal causes as "PC totalitarianism...
...simply questioning the American government made you a Communist. Today, any challenge to traditional, white, male, heterosexual hegemony makes you a PC totalitarian. Just as the "Commie" epithet was used three decades ago to suspend rational political discourse, so today is the catch-phrase "PC" bandied about carelessly to dismiss any argument conservatives find distasteful...
...Yeltsin marred an otherwise impressive performance with a gauche display of his erratic nature: his speech was badly slurred at a breakfast meeting in Baltimore, the combined result of Jack Daniel's and jet lag. That episode prompted Soviet analysts at the White House to dismiss Yeltsin as a lightweight and to underrate his political skills...
...wonder, then, that so many students dismiss all talk of racism as P.C. wolf-crying...
...dismiss such stuff as the polysallabic effusions of woolly minds..But do not imagine that things are necessarily better among the elite. This is from the 1974-75 Harvard course catalogue: 'Afro-American Studies 95a..Black identity presented as a mental health model with therapeutic reactions to the ecology of white racism. Afro-American Studies 95b... Externalizing-internalizing dimensions of personality structure and behavior receive special attention...' Martin Luther King might have found a sharper way of putting...