History Main / PoliticalOvercorrectness

* ''Series/CornerGas'': Davis is sent to sensitivity training for telling DumbBlonde jokes around Karen (who is blonde), and comes back so politically correct that Karen immediately finds him insufferable and [[WeWantOurJerkBack wants him to go back to the way he was]]. For example, when Karen orders black coffee, Davis corrects her by saying "African-American!". [[CanadaEh The show isn't even set in America.]]

* The second ''OddThomas'' book, ''Forever Odd'', has a hand in this. The Pico Mundo high school football team used to be called the Braves. Someone got it into their head that this offended the Native Americans in the area and so the school was forced to change their name to the Gila Monsters. They call themselves the Monsters, though, saving some embarrassment. The really stupid thing about this? ''None of the Indians were complaining.'' TruthInTelevision since most of the complaints for Indians aren't made by Indians. In fact, when the Smithsonian "Museum of the American Indian" opened, a petition quickly pulled up to change it to "Native American". It was quashed by a request from none other than the Muscogee High Chief.

* ''Literature/{{Shimoneta}}'' runs on this. The setting is Japan with exaggerated obscenity laws where everything vulgar from {{Fanservice}} to medical terms is censored (and enforced by making everyone wear special chokers and wristbands [[BigBrotherIsWatchingYou that alert the authorities to any obscene words, writings or drawings,]]) no one knows how babies are born and the main character does not know the concepts of Lust or Lewdness. The chief architect of this system makes it her goal in life to "remove all that is dirty from the world." This trope is also an opinion in-universe, one held by an obscenity terrorist who's alter ego Blue Snow wears panties on her head ([[ShamelessFanserviceGirl and little else]]) who wants to take these laws down by placing porn everywhere.

** Somewhat lampshaded during Creator/KurtBusiek's run, where the team was forced to add at least one ethnic minority to its [[MonochromeCasting decidely-white roster]]. ComicBook/IronMan spends most of the issue complaining about how idiotic the notion of "diversity" is, while ComicBook/TheWasp feels crappy after realizing just how few minority members the team actually had up until that point. Thor and ComicBook/CaptainAmerica are also shown to be deeply angry and frustrated over the issue, believing that the Avengers should base their recruitment on actual talent, ability, competence, teamwork and dedication and not on ethnicity. Thor even goes so far as to ask "What does the color of a man's skin have to do with the content of his heart?"

* In Creator/JasperFforde's ''Literature/TheEyreAffair'', Acheron (the villain) insists he's ''differently moraled.''