Meaning of patriotically correct | Babel Free

Definitions

Synonym of conservatively correct.

derogatory

Examples

“[W]e only mumbled our objections [to the wars], then and now, because we feared being caught by the patriotically correct.”

“The obsessive subject of our sterile confrontation between the two PCs ― the politically and the patriotically correct ― is clumsily labeled "multiculturalism".”

“I was someone who felt passionately about the suffering of others, and I was dedicated to fighting that suffering, especially if the sufferers were poor and oppressed [, and] Christians who didn't share [that view] disgusted me. (In others words, I was being politically correct and despised those who were patriotically correct ... .)”

“An amusing recent example of patriotically correct language was the proposal in 2003 ... to rename french fries and french toast as freedom fries and freedom toast on cafeteria menus in the U.S. House of Representatives.”

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