History Main / PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad

** GirlWritesWhat [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jhGRuSvWOc also agrees]] with this assessment.

* When ''Richard Garriott's TabulaRasa'' was still running, it featured this trope for the holiday season. The AFS referred to it as "Seasonal Holiday Observance" or SHO, where major military bases would sport a "Festive Seasonal Holiday Observance Flora" (Christmas tree), under which soldiers could find "Holiday Hats" (a Santa Claus hat). The political correctness was probably tongue-in-cheek given the overblown military acronym style of the names.

* Common problem with "The Nigger of the Narcissus", a novel by nowadays classic JosephConrad... It has it in its title, so it is quite frequent to rise really heated debate in public libraries and schools. No racism intended in the novel, ''nigger'' being a completely acceptable term at the time for any black person.

** The HPLovecraft novella "The Rats in the Walls" features a black cat by the name "Nigger-Man", after Lovecraft's actual pet. It's changed (often creatively) in every adaptation.

* The English dub of ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'' (as seen on DisneyXD) suffers this in spades. Among others, certain foods (including Doraemon's trademark dorayaki) were replaced with "healthy" alternatives (i.e., in order to remind the viewers of the importance of "healthy living"). However, Shizuka's doll being replaced by a diary is the purest (and thus, worst) example of this trope.

* DCI Gene Hunt from ''Series/{{Life on Mars|UK}}'' is highly politically incorrect and rather popular with the viewing public because of it. One of his more printable quotes is:

'''The Doctor:''' It's [[TropeNamer political correctness gone mad]].

* The action comedy ''Film/DemolitionMan'' depicts a future that has become so politically correct things like profanity, unhealthy foods, and even sex have been banned. When a dangerous criminal is released on this nanny state, the authorities are forced to thaw out a CowboyCop from the 20th century because the future police are too ineffectual.
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* ''Many'' online commentators have stated this opinion of the controversy surrounding the 2016 ''[[Film/Ghostbusters2016 Ghostbusters]]'', in response to those who attribute the negative reception towards the reboot as nothing but misogyny. It reached a massive spike after Creator/JamesRolfe of [[WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd Angry Video Game Nerd]] fame received a barrage of abuse and hit-pieces (much of it [[{{Hypocrite}} blatantly misandrist in nature]]) when he announced that he would not be reviewing or even seeing the movie.

* In Kage Baker's TheCompanyNovels, in the future alcohol, tobacco, sugar, chocolate, meat, fish, dairy... pretty much everything even remotely "bad for you" or involving possible discomfort to any animal, is illegal. Sex is being phased out as well.

*** Much like the aforementioned "Death Camp of Tolerance" did before, an overarching theme in the season is the point to be made that while plenty of discriminatory views have no place in modern society, this culture of hyper-political correctness is less about actually fighting for the downtrodden and more for people to feel better about themselves and use PC as a tool to stroke their own shallow egos. And PC Principal, for all his thuggish ways, is shown to genuinely care for the cause and expresses disgust at how his PC fraternity brothers use political correctness and progressive politics to look good in front of women.

** The first episode of Season 19, "Stunning and Brave", is one big TakeThat to internet "social justice warriors" and their motto of "no bad tactics, only bad targets", i.e. they use bullying, threats, violence, and public shaming in order to beat the [[OpinionMyopia wrongthink]] out of anyone who dares disagree with their ultra-progressive views.
** Freshly joining the cast is the PC Principal. To put it bluntly, he is nothing short of the AnthropomorphicPersonification of this trope.

* The Music/CapitolSteps parodied "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" as "You Don't Bring Me Floriculturally Diverse Polyfragrant Soilistically Challenged Multipetaled Victims of Pesticidal Food Chain Chauvinism," in which the stamen is renamed "stay-person."

* During the development of ''VideoGame/StarOceanIntegrityAndFaithlessness'', Western feminists complained about revealing costumes worn by the characters Fiore and Miki. In response, the developers changed their panties to look more like ''diapers''. Needless to say, [[MostGamersAreMale both Western and Japanese gamers]] were outraged.

* When the ''Film/HungerGames'' film was released, some fans of the books complained that two of the main characters were played by a black actor and actress, apparently because this conflicted with the way these viewers had imagined the characters in their minds. The film studio was accused of pandering to political correctness. Of course, since the description from the book quite clearly describes them as having "dark skin" and "curly black hair", and the author has specified in interviews that those characters were Afro-American, one wonders [[UnfortunateImplications what actually motivated such outrage.]]

* Virgin Mobile used this in their advertisements during the winter of 2007-2008 to celebrate [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73vcbde8Cb8 Chrismahanukwanzakah]].

* Snickers had a football team being blessed before the big game by about twenty different holy men, a priest, a rabbi, an American Indian shaman, etc, all in the name of Political Correctness, with the implication this was going to take all afternoon.

* The Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Jynx was originally designed with black "skin" and is based on a combination of a Japanese spirit called a [[https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Yama-uba yama-uba]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganguro ganguro women]]. A woman named Carole Boston Weatherford complained about Jynx's racial offensiveness since they resemble the golliwog, a racist caricature, so Jynx has since been redesigned to be purple. Complaints about the changes still persist.

All of this is especially ironic, considering that Political Correctness took on its contemporary meaning when the radical left began using it as a [[SelfDeprecation self-aware joke]] about the intrusion of Academic (the capital "A" ''is'' required) feminist and socialist argot into their everyday lives (not all leftists being necessarily socialists, much less feminists if they are male). Expect most of those invoking MarsAndVenusGenderContrast to imply, if not state outright, that they're taking a brave stand against this trope in the name of TruthInTelevision. In some such cases, "Pushing back against our PC culture" can become a form of {{Jerk Justification|s}}; there are quite valid reasons many things evoke the reaction "DudeNotFunny"

* There is a story called ''[[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/24302/24302-h/24302-h.htm The Highest Treason]]'' by Creator/RandallGarrett. A society where you cannot say that one man can be better than another in ''anything'', promotion is strictly according to age, and that society is quickly losing a war against aliens. So, the protagonist, as a desperate patriot, [[spoiler: joins the enemy, helps them conquer a planet, and [[ZeroApprovalGambit slaughters the people there, showing the humanity that one person can be ''worse'']] than another]]. In the end, the humanity is victorious, and their philosophy is now that one man cannot be better than another in ''everything,'' but everybody is better than the rest of humanity at ''something''.

** The 4Kids showing of ''Anime/DragonBallZKai'' had the removal of halos from dead characters (too religious, presumably). Instead, they were replaced by small glowing orbs. Also, painting Mr. Popo blue (due to fear of him being seen as a caricature of black people, ignoring the fact that every single prior American airing of Dragon Ball left him as is).

** This left-liberal British newspaper, which is the polar opposite of the ''Daily Mail'', insists in its style and usage guide to contributors that the word "actress" is now obsolete, and all members of the thespian profession, regardless of gender, should be called "actors". As many (but by no means ''all'') female thespians prefer to be called "actors" these days, this may be for the good and takes individual wishes into account. The Guardian's stablemate, the Sunday ''Observer'', appears to ask first how the lady wishes to be described and uses ''actress/actor'' according to her wishes. However, this came unstuck when one day the Guardian had to publish an obituary for a deceased Italian film director, who in life had been a notorious Berlusconi with regard to the casting couch. It found itself using the phrase "He was notorious for the sheer number of aspiring young [[HoYay actors who he seduced]]" -- thus, in accepted ''general'' English usage, giving the impression the director preferred men instead of women.

* Creator/StewartLee is actually in favour of political correctness and one routine has described as "Tediously politically correct".

All of this is especially ironic, considering that Political Correctness took on its contemporary meaning when the radical left began using it as a [[SelfDeprecation self-aware joke]] about the intrusion of Academic (the capital "A" ''is'' required) feminist and socialist argot into their everyday lives (not all leftists being necessarily socialists, much less feminists if they are male). Expect most of those invoking MarsAndVenusGenderContrast to imply, if not state outright, that they're taking a brave stand against this trope in the name of TruthInTelevision.

* The NCAA once attempted to strike North Dakota's "Fighting Sioux" team name as "derogatory". Basic summary of the response to the NCAA by actual Sioux: [[http://plainsdaily.com/entry/spirit-lake-sioux-tribe-announces-lawsuit-against-ncaa-alleging-civil-rights-violations-and-copyright-infringement/ "Fuck you."]]