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  • This striving for verisimilitude serves another purpose: Weiner seems to hope that getting the vintage mitten clasps and IBM Selectrics right will help viewers believe that outrageously un-PC attitudes and behavior were as common as the series shows them to be.

    Mad About Mad Men 2009

  • It would be harder and very un-PC to say: "I'm tired of thinking about breast cancer, can we talk about something else now?"

    Dr. Elaine Schattner: Breast Cancer Fatigue Syndrome Is Harmful to Patients Dr. Elaine Schattner 2010

  • In the name of a Christian war against Islam, Anders Breivik killed more people as a percentage of his country than 9/11 hijackers did here -- should it be un-PC to talk about Christian, right-wing terrorism after so much discussion about "Muslim Terrorism"?

    HuffPost Radio: Both Sides Now: Debt Ceiling Fight "Psychotic"? ID Laws "Jim Crow"? HuffPost Radio 2011

  • Even worse, that stance evokes and encourages the condescension of posterity; just as insecure college students feel they must join the knowing hisses of the callow campus audience when a character in an old movie makes an un-PC comment, so Mad Men directs its audience to indulge in a most unlovely — because wholly unearned — smugness.

    Mad About Mad Men 2009

  • In the name of a Christian war against Islam, Anders Breivik killed more people as a percentage of his country than 9/11 hijackers did here -- should it be un-PC to talk about Christian, right-wing terrorism after so much discussion about "Muslim Terrorism"?

    HuffPost Radio: Both Sides Now: Debt Ceiling Fight "Psychotic"? ID Laws "Jim Crow"? HuffPost Radio 2011

  • In the name of a Christian war against Islam, Anders Breivik killed more people as a percentage of his country than 9/11 hijackers did here -- should it be un-PC to talk about Christian, right-wing terrorism after so much discussion about "Muslim Terrorism"?

    HuffPost Radio: Both Sides Now: Debt Ceiling Fight "Psychotic"? ID Laws "Jim Crow"? HuffPost Radio 2011

  • Even worse, that stance evokes and encourages the condescension of posterity; just as insecure college students feel they must join the knowing hisses of the callow campus audience when a character in an old movie makes an un-PC comment, so Mad Men directs its audience to indulge in a most unlovely — because wholly unearned — smugness.

    Mad About Mad Men 2009

  • This striving for verisimilitude serves another purpose: Weiner seems to hope that getting the vintage mitten clasps and IBM Selectrics right will help viewers believe that outrageously un-PC attitudes and behavior were as common as the series shows them to be.

    Mad About Mad Men 2009

  • A small, un-PC statement that to me carries a lot of signifance when talking about confirming what could be the 3rd female supreme court justice.

    Hatch reminds committee of past Obama statements 2009

  • Not simply because his sets are packed with sexually risqué, socially controversial or un-PC observations, but because his entire view of the world is rather unusual.

    This week's new comedy 2012

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