Political Correctness

The following is the winning entry in an annual contest at Texas A&M University calling for the most appropriate definition of a contemporary term.  This year's term was Political Correctness.

The winner wrote: 

"Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end."