in private?
I am politically correct in public but not in private.
I wonder how common this pattern is.
Indicate if you are sincerely politically correct,
hypocritically politically correct, or not politically correct.
Other comments you have might shed light on this issue.
I’m politically correct in public, but around friends and stuff, not. However, all non-PC things said are all in jest.
I’m not politically correct anywhere. 
I think I’m politically correct in public. Maybe I just haven’t annoyed anyone enough for them to get on my case about something incorrect.
In private, oy, I am so incorrect. Please don’t tell.
Jeyen
Though it depends on how you define “politically correct.” I do use terms like “black” & “handicapped” instead of “African-American” & “whatever the correct term is.” I would not ever use a term, even in thought, like nigger, fag, crip, kike…I didn’t even like writing those.
I was talking to a woman who had a 7 yr old son with dwarfism. I asked her what the preferred term was…rats, now I can’t remember what it was. Little people sounds like you’re talking about elves or gnomes or something.
Not the terms I’d use berdollos, but see if this qualifies:
At work (specifically) and in public (generally, though to a lesser degree) I try my best to be very mindful of offending others. No profanity, no off-color jokes, no scrotum-scratchin’, and so on.
In private, I am much more relaxed and have even been overheard quoting such politically-incorrect sources as Andrew “Dice” Clay. In good fun, of course.
I refuse to bow to PC - I try my hardest not to categorize people, but rather to see them as individuals… Well, except for ignorant, inbred rednecks and narrow-minded, intolerant fundies, and oversexed, testosterone-poisoned high school boys who want to violate my daughter…
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uh, the preceeding was a feeble attempt at humor.
In reality, I bristle at the perpetuation of gross generalizations and stereotypes and I have been known to call people to task for repeating them, even in “jest” as they call it. The crap I hear from some of my coworkers has floored me more than once… But I don’t see this as a matter of political correctness - merely human decency. I like a good joke as well as the next person, but some things just aren’t funny.
I don’t think of myself as “politically correct” at all, really, because I don’t like the term. I just try to be as respectful of other folks in conversation as I can be, and I don’t use patently offensive names for any group (assuming I’m up on what’s currently offensive!). I do tend to get angry with people who tell racist jokes and usually say so.
However, some of my friends and I have been known to laugh way too hard at a certain Onion article about driving the short bus. I’m a bit ashamed of the fact that I find it funny (I’m sorry I can’t post the link right now-- my work computer sucks, two browser windows would surely overtax the poor thing).
The term “politically correct” just leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
It all just seems so out of place!
Two examples…
An opinionated white co-worker of mine made a wide-sweeping statement that all black persons should be referred to as “African Americans”. My problem with that, as I pointed out to her, is that perhaps some blacks have roots in the caribbean or Australia. “Doesn’t matter,” she replied, “they all came from Africa.” I said that I don’t have the background information to absolutely refute her statement, but that I find that a bit hard to believe. I told her that I have a friend who is white, Jewish, and was born in Johannesburg. She’s now a citizen of the USA and living near DC. “Doesn’t that make her an ‘African-American’, too?” I wasn’t trying to down her belief, but I think she needed to think more about the niche into which she put all blacks.
Also, GrizzWife told me (and I believe her) that she saw a national news broadcast where the newsreader said, quote “It is believed by some that Motzart may have been an African American.”
Well, “black”, perhaps… but “African AMERICAN”?
I say, be polite and respectful. But let’s end these wide sweeping curves that we have to take around people’s perceived feelings.
I try to be polite. A lot of what some people call “PC” is what my mother called “good manners.” I suppose that I’ve got company manners and family manners, but there’s not that much difference between the two.
At first I thought you might have meant this Onion article, and I was going to absolve you of all guilt, as it is one of the funniest things ever written.
Upon searching, though, I’m thinking you probably meant this one. In which case, I’m sorry, but you’re going to hell. 
Yes, Lux, I know… I just hope that when I get there, I have a seat by the door so I can get a breeze now and then.
I have to go now, I’m driving to Hawaii-- Ow! Stop it with the pitchforks!
First of all, that was one of the funniest things I have read in my whole life! My sides are hurting!
Now, to the OP: I guess I’m fairly PC in public (I don’t use all those PC terms, but I never say anything that would offend). In private, I still don’t consider myself rude, but some things I say would probably be not so funny to more sensitive types. I generally know what the limits are with the people I’m with, and I stay within the limits.
Okay, ignore the “subject” line of that last post of mine. My computer automatically put in my name and password, and it put in an old subject line as well, for some reason. Sorry about that.
i tend to be politically correct to a reasonable level (i can’t stand political correctness taken to the nth degree, it’s just pointless) but i do have a certain fondness for sick and/or offensive jokes. all the non-pc remarks involved in these jokes are in jest, and even while telling them i don’t use racist terms (nigger etc.) because…i just can’t…dunno why. anyway, all in jest, but in public. i get a good few looks of disgust, but i find the jokes too funny…the shame…the horrible funny shame…
I’m gratuitously politically incorrect in private primarily in random moments to momentarily floor friends.
I was once watching “Kindergarten Cop” in the presence of two of my best friends in the world, and at a point midway through the film (I had been being very good, I’m usually terrible at “mistying” most movies) I launched into a sudden vehement rant about how the entire film was really just a nazi allegory, which culminated in me taking whatever Ahnuld was saying at the time in seguing with some additions ending in me screaming “DEUTSCHLAND! DEUTSCHLAND UBER ALLES!” while attempting to mimic Ahnuld’s voice.
Guy friend was laughing fit to hurt himself, his wife ended up beating at me with a pillow, pissed off but laughing at the same time. It’s one of my favorite memories.
And, sure enough, I don’t do things like that in public.
I probably wouldn’t be politically correct even if I were an elderly, multiracial gay jewish red headed immigrant democrat. Did I miss anyone?
But let’s talk about my boss. In public he’s so politically correct and liberal it’s sickening. But in private he uses all kinds of slurs and derogratory remarks. What ticks me off about that is, I got haulled out on the rug one because I said, (and I quote) “My company car is making a queer noise.” He didn’t like me using the word “queer” in front of other people in the office, regarless of what context it was in. How could using the word queer when speaking about a car be considered a slur? It’s not like they issued me a pink Saturn or anything like that.